NEWSTALK 860 » energy http://ksfa860.com Fri, 17 May 2013 21:25:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Update: Keystone XL Pipeline Gets Key Permits http://ksfa860.com/update-keystone-pipeline-gets-key-permits/ http://ksfa860.com/update-keystone-pipeline-gets-key-permits/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:18:43 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=81525 The Houston Chronicle reports that TransCanada has received the last of three key permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to start building the 485-mile Gulf Coast section of its controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The company says this means the $2.3 billion oil pipeline can start construction in the “coming weeks.”

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/update-keystone-pipeline-gets-key-permits/feed/ 0 via Flickr/War on Error1 Nacogdoches Biomass Power Plant Up and Running http://ksfa860.com/new-biomass-power-plant-running-in-nac-county/ http://ksfa860.com/new-biomass-power-plant-running-in-nac-county/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:39:30 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=79989 It's not just a new biomass power plant.  In keeping with the Texas tradition of everything being "bigger and better", the new biomass power plant in Nacogdoches County is the largest power plant of its kind in the United States.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/new-biomass-power-plant-running-in-nac-county/feed/ 0 source: Southern Company Gov't Okays Texas Stretch of Keystone Pipeline http://ksfa860.com/govt-approves-texas-part-of-keystone-pipeline/ http://ksfa860.com/govt-approves-texas-part-of-keystone-pipeline/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:28:23 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=75501 People in east Texas need to brace themselves and get ready, because the way has been cleared for a major stretch of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada.  Barring a successful legal challenge, it's coming.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/govt-approves-texas-part-of-keystone-pipeline/feed/ 0 via Flickr/War on Error1 Fixed-Rate Power Contracts in Danger http://ksfa860.com/69848/ http://ksfa860.com/69848/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:26:56 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=69848 Officials at several big electricity providers are wondering out loud if changes in wholesale power prices could allow them to break the fixed-rate contracts they have with consumers.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/69848/feed/ 0 via Flickr/anotherpioneer ERCOT Hopes to Keep Lights on This Summer http://ksfa860.com/ercot-hopes-to-keep-lights-on-this-summer/ http://ksfa860.com/ercot-hopes-to-keep-lights-on-this-summer/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 14:37:06 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=65153 Even though weather experts are not expecting another long, hot summer like the one we had last year, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas is searching for ways to keep the lights on through this summer and in the future.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/ercot-hopes-to-keep-lights-on-this-summer/feed/ 0 via Flickr/NRCgov TransCanada Reapplies for Oil Pipeline http://ksfa860.com/transcanada-reapplies-for-oil-pipeline/ http://ksfa860.com/transcanada-reapplies-for-oil-pipeline/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 16:04:12 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=63614 The Canadian oil company that wants to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. has submitted a new application for the project, after changing the route to avoid environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/transcanada-reapplies-for-oil-pipeline/feed/ 0 via Flickr/tarsandsaction Final Cost of BP Oil Spill: $7.8 Billion Dollars http://ksfa860.com/final-cost-of-bp-oil-spill-7-8-billion-dollars/ http://ksfa860.com/final-cost-of-bp-oil-spill-7-8-billion-dollars/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:05:45 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=60256 British Petroleum and a small army of plaintiffs’ attorneys have presented a New Orleans federal judge with the formal terms of a proposed class-action settlement designed to resolve billions of dollars in economic damage claims spawned by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/final-cost-of-bp-oil-spill-7-8-billion-dollars/feed/ 0 U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images TransCanada Changes Keystone XL Pipeline Route http://ksfa860.com/transcanada-changes-keystone-xl-pipeline-route/ http://ksfa860.com/transcanada-changes-keystone-xl-pipeline-route/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:30:26 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=57206 The developer of the Keystone XL international pipeline has identified a new corridor that goes around the environmentally sensitive area where the Ogallala Aquifer provides drinking water for millions of people in Nebraska and several other midwestern states.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/transcanada-changes-keystone-xl-pipeline-route/feed/ 0 via flickr/War on Error1 Big Majority of Americans Angry With Obama http://ksfa860.com/big-majority-of-americans-angry-with-obama/ http://ksfa860.com/big-majority-of-americans-angry-with-obama/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:21:51 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=55673 A recent poll shows that more than two thirds of Americans do not approve of the way President Barack Obama is handling gasoline prices.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/big-majority-of-americans-angry-with-obama/feed/ 0 via Chung Sung-Jun, Getty Images Are "Smart" Electricity Meters Really Smart? http://ksfa860.com/are-smart-electricity-meters-really-smart/ http://ksfa860.com/are-smart-electricity-meters-really-smart/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:52:42 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=53697 A good many people don't think the new high tech "smart" electricity meters are as smart as their electric utility company says they are.  Some people want nothing to do with them, and are fighting efforts to replace the old meters with the new ones.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/are-smart-electricity-meters-really-smart/feed/ 0 via flickr/cote Obama Approval Rating Sinks as Gas Prices Rise http://ksfa860.com/obama-approval-rating-sinks-as-gas-prices-rise/ http://ksfa860.com/obama-approval-rating-sinks-as-gas-prices-rise/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:13:09 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=52015 Disapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record number of Americans now give the president “strongly” negative reviews on the 2012 presidential campaign’s most important issue, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/obama-approval-rating-sinks-as-gas-prices-rise/feed/ 0 via Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images Keystone XL Pipeline Hits Legal Snag in Texas http://ksfa860.com/keystone-xl-pipeline-hits-legal-snag-in-texas/ http://ksfa860.com/keystone-xl-pipeline-hits-legal-snag-in-texas/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:35:12 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=50570 A Lamar County farm family has stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline project dead in its tracks. The farmer has been granted a temporary restraining order that will stop the pipeline at her farm's property line while lawyers on both sides argue the issues the family has raised

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/keystone-xl-pipeline-hits-legal-snag-in-texas/feed/ 0 via Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Panola County Residents Sue Over Gas 'Fracking' http://ksfa860.com/panola-county-residents-sue-over-gas-fracking/ http://ksfa860.com/panola-county-residents-sue-over-gas-fracking/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:26:16 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=42059 Nearly a hundred people in Panola County have filed suit against Conoco-Phillips, saying the company's drilling practices have contaminated their ground water.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/panola-county-residents-sue-over-gas-fracking/feed/ 0 via Spencer Platt, Getty Images Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline http://ksfa860.com/obama-rejects-keystone-pipeline/ http://ksfa860.com/obama-rejects-keystone-pipeline/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:03:00 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=40976 Texas lawmakers are denouncing President Barack Obama's decision to reject the proposed Canada-to-Texas pipeline, while environmental groups praised the move as a step toward creating clean energy jobs and decreasing U.S. dependence on oil.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/obama-rejects-keystone-pipeline/feed/ 0 via flickr/yorklib As Always – Energy Industry Has the Most Jobs http://ksfa860.com/as-always-energy-industry-has-the-most-jobs/ http://ksfa860.com/as-always-energy-industry-has-the-most-jobs/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:14:58 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=40559 The energy industry, historically, has the most jobs, the lowest unemployment rate, the highest salaries and biggest pay increases.  That's why young people looking for a college major with the best job opportunities would do well to get a degree in one of the many energy related fields.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/gas-prices-down-for-thanksgiving/feed/ 0 Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Is Your State Paying the Most for Electricity? http://ksfa860.com/states-pay-most-least-electricity/ http://ksfa860.com/states-pay-most-least-electricity/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:09:12 +0000 Kathy Landin http://tsminteractive.com/?p=61411 Turning up the dial on your thermostat in the fall and winter months is bound to add major coin to your electric bill, so you power through. Unless you live in Utah, and then you really have nothing to worry about, according to new data released this week.

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]]> http://ksfa860.com/states-pay-most-least-electricity/feed/ 0 David Silverman, Getty Images Keystone XL Pipeline Delayed — Competitor Offers an Alternative http://ksfa860.com/keystone-xl-pipeline-delayed-a-competitor-offers-an-alternative/ http://ksfa860.com/keystone-xl-pipeline-delayed-a-competitor-offers-an-alternative/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:05:17 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=26250 Critics of a proposed Trans-Canada oil pipeline from Canada to Texas are feeling a sense of relief, over the U.S. State Department's decision to stop the project until after the 2012 election.

At the same time, another big Canadian pipeline company says it can bring crude oil to Texas much faster and at less expense.

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