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MMS takes first step for acreage offshore VirginiaWASHINGTON, DC -- The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has taken the first step in the multi-year leasing process to hold a sale for acreage offshore Virginia. The Call for Information and Interest/Nominations and Notice of Intent (Call/NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be published in the November 13th Federal Register, beginning a 45-day public comment period. Read More...
Texas Awards First Competitive Wind Leases in the United StatesLand Office awards bids on four tracts in Gulf of Mexico. Jerry Patterson, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, today awarded the first four competitively bid leases for offshore wind power in the nation's history. Read More...
EDITORIAL: Watching the web [Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas]
Mar. 8, 2008--More than 95 percent of all transoceanic telephone and Internet communications flow at the speed of light through several hundred thousand miles of privately owned submarine cable that's only about the width of a finger.
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GROUP ASKS FCC TO SCRAP NEW CABLE LANDING LICENSE REGULATIONS
The North American Submarine Cable Assocation (NASCA) has asked the FCC to reconsider its new cable landing license rules, calling them "unnecessary," legally "flawed," and "unworkable at a practical level." In a consolidated petition for reconsideration and petition to defer the effective date of a new certification requirement filed yesterday in International docket 04-47, the group also said the new rules "effectively gut the Commission's submarine cable streamlining rules without any identificable regulatory benefit."
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Catch The Energy!
Americans suddenly are serious about finding alternative forms of energy. We’re seeking to reduce our need for coal, oil and natural gas, which contribute to pollution and climate change. That’s why utilities, industry and Wall Street firms are investing in “renewables”—energy that is quickly replenished by a natural process, like sunlight. With oil selling at about $100 a barrel and the U.S. dependent on imports from unstable countries, there also are economic and security reasons to develop new energy. Among the sources entrepreneurs are exploring are geothermal, solar and wind power. And with about 70% of the Earth’s surface covered by water, they’re becoming interested in what the tides, oceans, river currents and waves can yield. Here are some of the more unusual projects gearing up around the nation.
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