Jason's Monday Forecast: Dec. 7, 2009 [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
Home fills with carbon monoxide [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
Sunday Webcast: Dec. 6, 2009 [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
Police: Man swung pitchfork at family [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
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An estimated $25 million in mostly federal stimulus recovery funds is headed to Toledo that will help build a bio-refinery plant that in time could jump-start new energy across the country. The new test facility, located inside Red Lion Bio Energy on Research Drive near the University of Toledo Medical Center campus, will keep and create upwards of 100 new jobs. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WUPW FOX Toledo, OH]
Congressman Vern Ehlers shared his thoughts on the best ways to keep Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WOOD NBC 8 Grand Rapids]
A mercury spill causes a hazmat scare at a local H1N1 clinic. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WPRI CBS 12 Providence]
Question of the day: Dec. 4, 2009 [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
Gov pushes residents to spend locally [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
Rescue Mission helps many avoid the cold [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
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Tires Pile Up in Memphis Neighborhoods While Waiting for City to Pay
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A bighead Asian carp was found among dead fish from a recent kill in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, the Asian Carp Rapid Response Workgroup announced Thursday evening. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WOOD NBC 8 Grand Rapids]
Illinois environmental officials say they've found a single Asian carp in a shipping canal leading to Lake Michigan. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WFLD FOX 32 Chicago, IL]
A new farmbill brings a new program. Ag. Reporter Sarah Gustin introduces you to the Conservation Stewardship Program. Farmers and ranchers are getting the chance to get paid for doing good. The new Conservation Stewardship Program pays producers cash for taking care of their land. (Jennifer Heglund / Asst. State Conservationist) "It's very competitive. So what we do is we run it through a conservation measurement tool in which we look at the conservation activities they are already doing and what they want to do and we tally up the points. And that is what makes one application more attractive then another for funding." Nationwide more than 12 million acres could be enrolled in the CSP program. North Dakota's 2010 allocation is nearly 550-thousand acres. Heglund says they received more than 400 applications...more than 250 were accepted. (Jennifer Heglund / Asst. State Conservationist) "I am not surprised at all here in North Dakota because our conservation stewardship level has been quite high. We have always had a lot of interest in conservation programs and people are willing to do what they need to do to make their farmland sustainable into the future." The program pays producers for the improvements they have made and the conservation efforts they plan on implementing. Heglund says crop rotations, no-till farming and solar energy for water pumps are just a few examples. (Jennifer Heglund / Asst. State Conservationist) "The conservation efforts that have been done in the past, the practices that they have put in the past, they have done no-till, they have done water developments, they have done fencing. Those sort of things add up in the points to make them more attractive to get a contract." Heglund says payments are based on the level of conservation that they promote on their farm. Producers can earn up to 40-thousand dollars a year or as much as 200-thousand dollars during the 5 year contract. Annual payments for cropland enrolled range from 12 to 22 dollars an acre. 6 to 14 dollars is paid per acre for
A windfarm near Wilton could double next year. Renewable energy has been a big point of emphasis in recent years. In North Dakota Wind Farms have been popping up all over the state. Now, a proposal would double the size of the wind farm near Wilton. But the issues are more complicated than determining where to put the towers. Brad Feldman reports. Cutting through the air... Turbines are sending electricity down the line. These sixty-six wind turbines sit in Ecklund Township...a county that has control of it's planning and zoning. A proposal for sixty-six more turbines would add more to the townships grid...but some turbines would flow over into another township...thirty-three turbines are planned for Crofte township...a township that gave up it's planning and zoning control years ago. (Gary Small/ Crofte Township Board Member) "Right to govern housing and everything they turned that over to Burleigh County authority so we don't need to make no rules. We go by Burleigh County Rules." Gary Small is a Crofte Township Board Member. He says in hindsight...it probably would have been better to keep the issues in the townships control. (Gary Small/ Crofte Township Board Member) "You have no say on anything all we are is a gravel crew. We gravel roads and maintain the roads and that is all we do." Small, and the rest of the Crofte Township board wait for Burleigh County Planning officials to write an ordiance. Up to now, Burleigh County has no regulations on commercial sized wind farms. Greg Greenquist in the Community Development office says they have been gathering ordinances from other communities. (Greg Greenquist/ Bismarck Community Development) "We dont have to reinvent the wheel here but we are looking really closely at compatability issues with turbines and households." Greenquist says two of the main issues they will have to consider is noise and appearance. The same two issues that seem to strike a cord with residents in the area. (Gary Small/ Crofte Township Board Member) "I am not against it I am really not
Belen's city government banked on solar power as the wave of the future installing three solar power dishes that then sat idle for months as a PNM program caught up to the technology. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
5 Investigates reporter Morgan Loew says people should beware of contractors who promise great deals on solar panels but deliver shoddy equipment. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KPHO Phoenix, Arizona]
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