February 7, 2022 archive

Kansas wind farms source of legislative debate

  Efforts by a Kansas legislator to curb wind farm growth are drawing criticism from proponents who contend it will only hurt the state. It also shows the divisions that exist between those who want wind powered electricity and those who aren’t so eager to have it. Another example perhaps of “not in my backyard.” …

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Plan to turn New Mexico into hydrogen hub reintroduced in legislature

  New Mexico legislators are still battling over efforts to make their state a hub of “blue hydrogen” production. Conservation groups are upset that Democrat Rep. Patty Lundstrom of Gallup has reintroduced hydrogen hub legislation reported the Santa Fe New Mexican. Click here for Santa Fe New Mexican  

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** The nation’s largest electric grid operator PJM Interconnection is so clogged with requests from energy developers seeking connections to its regional transmission network in the eastern United States that it is proposing a two-year pause on reviewing more than 1,200 energy projects, most of them solar power. ** The Biden administration is considering a Chevron …

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Train crew rescues woman floating on Oklahoma’s Texoma Lake

  A woman found stranded on an air mattress afloat Oklahoma’s Lake Texoma can thank a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crew for her rescue late last week in southern Oklahoma. As NBC News reported, two crew members on the train spotted the woman floating on the lake and immediately notified authorities who found the …

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