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Fish Juice: N.J. Fisherman angling to develop offshore wind
June 3, 2008 by Jeffrey Ball in Wall Street Journal
June 3, 2008 by Jeffrey Ball in Wall Street Journal
File this one under if you can't beat ‘em, join ‘em.
A group of commercial fishermen wants to get in on the rush to build offshore wind farms to generate electricity. It's an interesting about face for the fishing industry, which has traditionally fought offshore industrialization - other than their own floating seafood factories, that is. ...The effort is attracting attention in New Jersey, where the state is looking to provide grants for a pilot offshore wind farm. ...
Meanwhile, if Trenton doesn't take the bait, perhaps Providence will. Last Friday, Fishermen's Energy filed one of seven proposals to build a windfarm off the coast of Rhode Island.
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Emissions, regulation, siting among legislative priorities in Northeast
July 6, 2007 by Corina Rivera in SNLi
July 6, 2007 by Corina Rivera in SNLi
Legislators in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic passed a number of bills applying to the electric power industry, with several states committing to emissions reductions through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and other states making broad organizational changes to their regulatory processes.
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After briefly wavering, Governor M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut yesterday agreed to sign onto a multistate greenhouse gas pact that Massachusetts and Rhode Island rejected Wednesday.
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