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...megawatts. The U.S. firm GE Wind Energy recently announced new turbines capable of producing 3.5 megawatts offshore. The technological improvements have lowered the production cost of wind power to about one-fifth what it was 20 years ago - a level that promoters say is broadly competitive with newly constructed coal- or even gas-fired plants, the cheapest source. Because of its high initial investment costs, wind power is still not economical without some form of subsidy. Wind's advocates call subsidies a necessary anti-pollution tradeoff. "If you decide to pay only the market price for coal- and gas-fired...
...business run by the Bakrie clan, which has interests ranging from real estate to palm oil to telecommunications. Lately, the Bakries have experienced difficulty raising capital due to the underperformance of the conglomerate as a whole. When Bumi Resources needed $150 million to buy Indonesia's second largest private coal company, it received it from the state-run workers pension fund?Jamsostek?and the country's largest bank, Bank Mandiri. A businessman intimate with the deal says Taufik supported Bumi's funding requests. Not so, says a spokesperson for the Bakrie Group of companies, and when asked about the transaction...
...about an Administration that professes to be nonpolitical. A top strategy point advises Republican candidates to "focus on the war and economy," though the White House has said the war effort will not be used to win votes. A section that dissects key groups targeted by the President includes "coal and steel" states, offering support for Democratic charges that Bush is catering to those constituencies with his pro-industry decisions on air-pollution regulations and steel tariffs. A map of states that are "special concerns" neatly meshes with the states Bush has visited repeatedly to participate in events that aides...
With his impeccably pressed white shirts and wingtips, Spitzer would seem to be part of the Establishment, not its nemesis. But he has taken up crusades that are far removed from the usual concerns of a state attorney general, battling coal-burning power companies over acid rain, gun manufacturers over product liability, grocers for exploiting immigrant workers. Spitzer and the team of lawyers he recruited from the ranks of prestigious law firms and federal prosecutors' offices often work unorthodox legal strategies, dusting off little-used laws to help their cause. In the fight with Merrill, for example, New York relied...
Your item on extracting natural gas using coal-bed methane development in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, "Rocky Mountain Deep: The Next Drilling War" [NOTEBOOK, May 20], left some mistaken impressions. The Powder River Basin is not in the Rocky Mountains but is some distance from those scenic mountain peaks. And although the basin is home to wildlife, it is not exactly "pristine," having been a major energy-producing area for more than 20 years. Also, you implied that the impacts of drilling new methane wells are uniformly negative, overlooking the benefits of the clean, nonsaline water that is pumped...