ENERGY
Greg Thrall retires after 39 years of dedicated service
Greg Thrall, senior vice president of operations and IT, retired on March 31, 2012, from Border States Electric (BSE), Fargo, N.D. For more on this story visit http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/arti...
Posted on 4/16/12 at 8:39 AM
Wind Lessons Make Big Impression
Bottineau County elementary school students havediscovered a simple saltine cracker can teach them aboutwind energy. These youngsters were among about 4,100 North Dakota students who joined millions...
Posted on 2/15/12 at 9:10 AM
Who Says You Need Beef in Your Diet? Your Body!
A great source of accurate information about the benefits of including lean beef in our diet can be found at www.beefnutrition.org. The information also points out the importance of including all of t...
Posted on 1/24/12 at 8:00 PM
Infrared
William Herschel, a famous astronomer of the mid 1700s through the early 1800s, is probably most famous for discovering the planet, Uranus, the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. He...
Posted on 8/26/11 at 8:36 PM
USDA DEPUTY SECRETARY MERRIGAN ANNOUNCES ECONOMIC RECOVERY PROJECTS FOR WOOD-TO-ENERGY GRANTS AND BIOMASS UTILIZATION PROJECTS
Contact: Justin DeJong 202-251-3309 McCLELLAN, Calif., June 11, 2009 — Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Ac...
Posted on 6/15/09 at 3:52 AM
Obama sets sights on making U.S. No. 1 in alternative energy
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Republican presidential candidacy and President Obama’s comments on ethanol have thrown the corn-based ethanol industry into turmoil as it struggles to convince Congress to provide assistance to build blender pumps.By Jerry Hagstrom , August 22, 2011
Renewable energy grants funds being doled out in Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Twenty-five Minnesota farmers and rural small businesses are getting almost $300,000 in renewable energy grants.August 18, 2011
Center recommends 4 alternative fuel projects
PIERRE, S.D. — A research center based at South Dakota State University is recommending federal funding for four projects that would study the use of various plants for producing ethanol or other biofuels.August 09, 2011
Southeast a holdout in mandating renewable energy
ATLANTA — States across the country are gradually forcing or cajoling their electric companies into buying renewable energy, but the trend has fallen flat in the Southeast.By Ray Henry , August 09, 2011
Role of biomass grows, experts say
The people who know most about biomass don’t think it will replace fossil fuels or other energy sources. But the experts all agree that biomass has a role to play.By Jonathan Knutson , August 04, 2011
Federal judge: Biofuels deal was a scam
NATCHEZ, Miss. — A federal judge agrees with regulators’ charges against a man who claimed he had developed a revolutionary process to more than double fuel production from soybeans — and to do so without waste or the tiniest bit of pollution.July 28, 2011
Farmers Union renewable energy experts to Morris
MORRIS, Minn. — The National Farmers Union is bringing its Renewable Energy Tour to the Morris campus of the University of Minnesota.June 29, 2011
SD scientist named to national study group
BROOKINGS, S.D. — A scientist and administrator at South Dakota State University will serve on a national committee studying biomass energy.June 03, 2011
Oil boom: Canola, not crude
HALLOCK, Minn. — Big rigs. Big money. Jobs aplenty. Scarce housing. A woeful region revitalized by oil.By Ryan Bakken , May 30, 2011
Heading back to the food, fiber and fuel future?
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The current high prices and projections of low carry-over stocks have rekindled the food vs. fuel debate. The ethanol industry, directly, and corn farmers, indirectly, will face increasing calls for lowering the renewable fuels mandate and a reduction in or elimination of the blenders tax credit.By Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer , May 23, 2011
BLM to hold fracking forum in Bismarck
BISMARCK, N.D. — A technology that has created an oil boom in western North Dakota and opened vast natural gas reserves nationwide won’t harm drinking water sources if wells are drilled properly, regulators and industry officials said Wednesday.By James MacPherson , April 21, 2011
California sets new high renewable power goals
MILPITAS, California — California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed legislation requiring utilities to get one-third of their power from renewable sources, giving the state the most aggressive alternative energy mandate in the U.S.By Adam Weintraub , April 12, 2011
SDSU getting $1.7M in bioenergy research grants
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving South Dakota State University more than $1.7 million in research grants to spur production of bioenergy and biobased products.April 12, 2011
Japan disaster complicates moves to clean energy
BANGKOK — Worldwide calls to curb nuclear power amid Japan’s plant crisis could be bad news for the environment unless nations finally go all-out to tap wind, solar and other clean, renewable energy, climate change negotiators and activists say.By Denis D. Gray , April 09, 2011
Obama sets ambitious goal to reduce US oil imports
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for a one-third reduction in U.S. oil imports by 2025, reviving a long-elusive goal of reducing America's dependence on foreign supplies as political unrest rocks the Middle East and gasoline prices rise at home.By Julie Pace , March 31, 2011
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