Category: Environment and Energy
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Plant may be future energy for Vineland / Company has plan to grow city’s biofuel
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Tuesday, May 4, 2010) Mike Smith wants to bring the green-energy revolution to Vineland. He plans to take the world’s fastest growing plant and make it grow even faster. Then he’ll burn it to create a natural gas that can be transformed into energy.
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Solar industry booming but many go bust
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010.) As the national economy struggles, one industry is booming in New Jersey: renewable energy. Buoyed by some of the nation’s most generous financial incentives and relatively little regulation, New Jersey’s renewable energy industry — particularly solar power — has exploded with activity. Scarcely […]
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New Jersey sues to halt Army Corps dredge
(Published by The Press of Atlantic City on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009.) New Jersey sued the U.S. Army Corps on Monday to stop the Corps from deepening the Delaware River shipping channel. The Attorney General’s Office wants an injunction to stop efforts to deepen from 40 to 45 feet the channel that begins in the […]
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Effective oyster program nearly out of money
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009.) COMMERCIAL TOWNSHIP Invest $1. Get a $40 return. Improve the ecology. Eat. Sound like a good investment? Biologists and fishermen think so. So apparently does the White House. But due to government restrictions, there may be no more federal funding for a […]
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Del. OK may not hold up project
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.) The U.S. Army’s top civil works official authorized the Army Corps of Engineers on his last day in office to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel without Delaware’s approval. John Paul Woodley, former assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, invoked a […]
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DEP opposes wind farm in Del. Bay
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.) State environmental officials oppose wind turbines anywhere in the Delaware Bay, a position that could jeopardize an Ocean County firm’s plans for a wind park there. The Department of Environmental Protection cited potential threats to migratory birds, oyster seed beds and other resources […]
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Harnessing the bay’s power / Ocean County company plans more than 100 wind turbines in northwestern Delaware Bay
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009.) Imagine more than 100 wind turbines dotting the Delaware Bay. Each reaches more than 400 feet into the sky, spinning slowly in the wind as they harness it to power more than 125,000 homes. Sound far-fetched? Delsea Energy wants to raise 106 wind […]
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Delaware rejects permit for dredging in the bay
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Saturday, July 25, 2009.) Delaware’s top environmental official rejected a permit application for the deepening of the Delaware River shipping channel in a move that could jeopardize the project. Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Collin O’Mara signed the order Thursday rejecting the U.S. […]
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Town of Sea Breeze slipping away
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009.) FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP In an isolated corner of southwest New Jersey, a community is slowly dying. Eighteen homes and a small beach line the Delaware Bay in Sea Breeze, Cumberland County. They’re surrounded by water, marshes and the sound of waves lapping against the […]
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Corzine: Uphold dredging agreement
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Saturday, June 28, 2008.) Gov. Jon S. Corzine demanded that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers honor his agreement with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell to keep Delaware River dredge spoils in Pennsylvania. Corzine expressed outrage Friday over the Army Corps’ decision to ignore the Corzine-Rendell agreement on […]
Daniel Walsh 