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Manitoba Hydro’s New Inverted Rate Structure

Posted in Canada, Climate Change, Environmental Laws & Regulations, Manitoba, Nonrenewable Energy Resources, Sustainable Development on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Hydro wants to charge more if you use more
Manitoba Hydro has proposed a change in electricity pricing for homeowners – an “inverted rate structure”.  Under this new plan, homeowners would be charged a lower rate for a determined amount of power usage and a higher rate for anything above that.  Hydro has applied to the Public [...]

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Protecting Polar Bears While Searching For Oil

Posted in Climate Change, Environmental Laws & Regulations, Nonrenewable Energy Resources, Sustaining Biodiversity, tagged on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Oil hunters can annoy polar bears, agency says
In May, 2008 the US Government listed the polar bear as “Threatened”, and declared that it required protection due to loss of Arctic sea ice as a result of global warming.  Now in June, 2008 the US Fish & Wildlife Service has given legal protection to oil companies [...]

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