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Green-power initiative won?t affect residents in Southwest Missouri
Joplin Globe, MO - 57 minutes ago
Missouri electric rates are the seventh lowest in the nation, and a requirement from voters that utilities develop more green power could push up costs, ...
Texas invests $4.9 billion to pipe green energy from wind turbines TECH.BLORGE.com
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Gas price hike 'should propel Government towards green power'
Scotland on Sunday, UK - 1 hour ago
By Lizzie Robinson and Amy Murphy THE Government must raise its commitment to green power as gas prices look set to soar, according to the renewable energy ...

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£100m green energy plant plan to power paper mill
Scotsman, United Kingdom - Jul 18, 2008
By Jenny Haworth A £100 million green power plant is to be built at a paper mill in Fife. The 45-megawatt biomass plant will cut the Tullis Russell paper ...
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Government's green biomass energy plant looks good on paper Scotsman
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'Green' electricity plans go up in smoke
NEWS.com.au, Australia - Jul 18, 2008
By Cara Jenkin and Joanna Vaughan ELECTRICITY customers who signed up for green power with two of South Australia's major energy retailers are being ...

WWF calls for NT Govt to focus on green power, not gas
ABC Online, Australia - Jul 17, 2008
We have very few options in the Territory as households to buy green power." Dr Blanch is also calling for significant reductions in land clearing to reduce ...

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Gore Calls for 100% Green Power in 10 Years
Earth2Tech, CA - Jul 17, 2008
Al Gore has just called for an aggressive, if not unattainable, solution to America?s economic, environmental and national security woes: Generate 100 ...
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Al Gore lays down green challenge to America San Francisco Chronicle
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Measuring the data centre's green power
ComputerWeekly.com, UK - Jul 18, 2008
How about equipment lifecycle under a green data centre approach? Through a full understanding of what power is being drawn by older equipment, ...

Clean and green: Tax credits need to energize industry
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Jul 17, 2008
... which offers 1.9 cents for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced for the next decade, has resulted in a clean-and-green power surge.

'Green' Tinsley power station plan approved
Sheffield Telegraph, UK - Jul 17, 2008
A scheme valued at £60m for a 'green' power station in Tinsley was approved this week, despite concerns that it could add to pollution in part of Sheffield ...

BBC News

Cost worries over 'green' power
BBC News, UK - Jul 15, 2008
Director Mike Thornton said he understood concerns over cost, but added that getting a grant was now easier and the switch to "green" power would cut energy ...
Green shift in the balance of power The Herald
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Canwest News Service
June 27, 2008

Edmonton will soon become the first city in the world to start turning its solid waste into liquid fuel.

The city has signed an agreement with two Canadian biofuel companies to build a plant that will take regular garbage out of landfills and turn it into ethanol.

The new facility will be at the city's main waste-management centre.

When complete in late 2010, it should be producing 36 million litres of synthetic cellulosic ethanol per year.

Those behind the initiative are calling it a huge step towards sustainable, environmentally friendly energy. Producing ethanol this way has a number of benefits: it produces lower greenhouse-gas emissions than allowing the waste to decompose in a landfill; it doesn't use valuable agricultural land as plant-based ethanol does; and it will cut down on landfill space in the city.

Partially funded by the provincial government, the waste-to-fuel plant is a joint venture of the city, GreenField Ethanol and Enerkem. An Ontario-based company, GreenField is the country's leading ethanol producer. Montreal's Enerkem is a biofuel technology company.

The city is contributing the land -- and the waste -- for the project, which will use Enerkem technology. GreenField is in charge of the plant's construction and will run it when it's complete.