The complex network of industrial utilities inside Eastman Business Park is getting a new owner, again. And the buyers will pay to retrofit the park’s power plant with high-efficiency natural gas boilers, replacing its coal-fired ones. Recycled Energy Development reached a deal to sell its portfolio of site-specific power and utility systems – which includes […]
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Mercury in the Great Lakes? Blame China
China, it turns out, is responsible for a lot of the mercury that’s deposited into the Great Lakes. That little fact was an aside in a press release I received today from the International Joint Commission, an organization that advises the US and Canadian governments on matters relating to shared water bodies. A 2011 report […]
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Report: substantial fossil fuel reserves must remain untapped to avoid worst of climate change
Countries worldwide have massive oil, natural gas, and coal reserves that they could tap. But much of those reserves must remain unused in order to keep global warming under 2 degrees through the end of the century — an important tipping point, according to scientists. A new study published in Nature breaks down the reserves […]
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Ontario cleaning up its power plants
New York’s neighbor to the north is about to shut down all of its coal-fired power plants. This year, all of the remaining coal plants in the province of Ontario will be shut down except for one small plant that will be kept as a backup for peak demand periods, says an article in Yale […]
