Jordan hikes gasoline, power prices to ease deficit

Source: Asharq Alawsat

AMMAN, (Reuters) - Jordan has raised the price of gasoline and electricity for major mining firms, hotels and banks as part of IMF-guided austerity steps to ease its worsening budget deficit that could reach $4 billion this year. Sunday's move was the ...
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Fights brewing over coal shipments - Sun, 27 May 2012 PST

Source: The Spokesman

Empty boxcars sit at a railroad yard near Vancouver, B.C., waiting for their return to coal fields. There are currently no coal export terminals on the West Coast of the continental United States. (Full-size ph ...
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Number One Priority is Electricity - Museveni

Source: AllAfrica.com

President Yoweri Museveni has said government welcomes Public Private Partnerships in the energy sector, adding that the number one priority for Uganda is affordable electricity to drive development through indus ...
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Some fracking good news

Source: Junk Science

Of all the reasons you could possibly get excited about fracking and they choose reduced CO2 emissions? Industrial civilization is in danger of collapse due to mass sociogenic illness. The International Energy Age ...
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U.S. EPA: Playing Fast and Loose with Health and Welfare

Source: MasterResource

An eye-opening case can be made that Obama EPA is threatening our energy, economy, health, welfare, justice, and civil rights. A stiff charge, indeed, but one that needs to be examined in due depth this Memor ...
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Out of the box: Alternative energy campaign launched

Source: The Express Tribune Pakistan

Work in the sun? Interested in a solar-powered fan hat? Whilst building solar-powered shelter homes for flood refugees in Badin and Kashmore, two districts in Sindh regularly treated to temperatures of a ...
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Nicholas L. Cain: Long-term benefits far outweigh cost of subsidies

Source: GulfToday.ae

Oil prices in the United States have fallen over the last few months and tensions have eased a bit in the Middle East. But despite these hopeful signs, the price of oil on international markets remains at record highs – and the IMF wa ...
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Free-form curved furniture without molds / Part 1

Source: Instructables

Ever heard of Zipshape? It's a technique developed by Schindler Salmeron which lets you to draw a free-form profile curve for (say) a piece of furniture, and then cut a series of teeth into two sheets of thick m ...
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Agri-tourism anyone?

Source: Times of India

Want to experience a fun ride on bullock cart and tractor or plucking and eating fresh orange, mango, guava, amla or other fruit orchards along with a stay in a village house? You don't have to travel far ...
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