raking leaves [www.clipsyndicate.com | WWLP NBC 22 Springfield M]
Mike's question of the day: Dec. 29 [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
rhode islanders spent more this holiday season than last [www.clipsyndicate.com | WPRI CBS 12 Providence]
Noon Webcast: Dec. 28 [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
Deffenbaugh Industry workers hit the streets to make up for weather delays in service from last weekend. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KCTV FOX 5 Kansas City]
Sandhill cranes travel through Albuquerque [www.clipsyndicate.com | KOB Albuquerque]
With plenty of people receiving electronics and other big-ticket items for the holidays, the trash they leave outside could be a sign to potential crooks. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KCTV FOX 5 Kansas City]
Waianae Kupuna discovered an illegal dump on Hawaiian Homelands, and now asbestos have been found on the property. 12/23/2009. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KITV ABC 4 Honolulu HI]
Taunton Gas Leak Package [www.clipsyndicate.com | WPRI CBS 12 Providence]
The Metropolitan Water Board which operates the Eastern Reservoir from which OCWA which buys the water, have both been looking hard at any possible cause. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WSYR ABC 9 Syracuse]
Scientists are taking steps to keep Asian carp out of Lake Ontario. The fish are capable of causing some major problems for the fishing industry. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WSYR ABC 9 Syracuse]
Basin Electric Power Cooperative says its 250 million dollar wind farm project south of Minot is slated to come on line by year's end. Basin spokesman Daryl Hill says the last of the 80 wind turbines was erected earlier this month. The wind farm consists of the three-turbine Minot Wind 2 project and the 77-turbine PrairieWinds 1 project. Hill says the projects will produce about 120 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 35,000 homes. Construction on both projects began in August. The new wind farm will incorporate the two Basin wind turbines built in 2002, south of Minot. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXMC CBS Bismarck North ]
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It wasn't Santa Claus knocking on the doors of residents in Mandan this early morning, rather police and fire department personnel. At around 6 o'clock this morning a gas leak forced many people to evacuate their homes. An unusal noise and a strong odor of natural gas were reported in the area of Division Street and Collins Avenue Northeast. The first engine company on scene noticed a natural gas safety release valve releaving pressure on the natural gas system. Residents in the area were evacuated as precautionary measure. (Mitch Bitz/Captain Mandan Police Department) "We evacuated approximately 70 households in the area. The residents were asked to go to the Mandan Community Center if they did not have shelter elsewhere and they were out of their house for approximately two hours." The leak was secured within two hours of the evacuation. People were allowed back into their homes a little after 8 this morning. Besides going door-to-door, police and fire personnel also used the 'City Watch' reverse 911 system. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXMB CBS Bismarck North D]
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The government admits the climate change deal struck in Copenhagen was disappointing [www.clipsyndicate.com | Press Association UK]
(12/21/09) - Murfreesboro residents will soon be able to live, work and shop without ever leaving home, and it will be the county's first eco-friendly development. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WSMV Nashville, TN]
Two decades after the Exxon Valdez disaster, a tugboat working to prevent another oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound ran aground on the same reef and left a three-mile sheen of fuel oil on the water. (Dec. 25) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
North Dakota farmers produced about 280 million bushels of Corn last year. More than 40% of that total is converted into ethanol for fuel at five ethanol plants in the state. Two of those plants are in western North Dakota - Red Trail in Richardton and Blue Flint near Underwood. Jim Olson reports on the Blue Flint plant that its manager says is unique in the industry. Sitting in the heart of McLean County, the Blue Flint Ethanol plant is hardly in the heart of corn country. But its proximity to coal Creek Station allows it to draw waste steam from the power plant to operate the ethanol plant. (Jeff Zuger, Blue Flint Ethanol GM) "We're the only plant that directly utilizes a steam from a power plant. We're the only one to operate that way." Blue Flint Manager Jeff Zuger says the economy of this location more than makes up for the cost of shipping in corn to turn into ethanol. (Jeff Zuger, Blue Flint Ethanol GM) "Our goal has been and is to be the lowest production cost facility in the US and we've got a lot of information that tells us we're certainly running in that area." Zuger has been in charge of the Blue Flint plant since its design back in 2005. And while he says he knew little about the ethanol industry then, he's learned a lot. You can see he's a supporter by the license plate in his office. But he says the current profitable cycle for ethanol has come only after surviving a glut of ethanol production that collapsed prices. (Jeff Zuger, Blue Flint Ethanol GM) "We've really passed through that era and we're in a time period where we're in a healthy state. Supply and demand are in balance." The plant brings about two-thirds of its corn from southeast North Dakota. But he says the other one-third from local sources - like this truck - is actually growing, thanks to the interest in growing corn that ethanol has sparked. (Jeff Zuger, Blue Flint Ethanol GM) "When we first started the plant there was not a lot of corn production in this area, there was not a lot of irrigation in this area or dry-land corn." Zug
Cause and amount of spill are not yet known [www.clipsyndicate.com | KTVF NBC 11 Fairbanks]
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