An Australian farmer has struck purple gold selling beetroot juice to a Dubai prince looking for a secret weapon to feed his racing horses. Speaking to The Weekly Times about his lucky turn of events, Victorian farmer Sean Croft said he ...
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Australians are their own worst enemy when it comes to sticking to their diets according to a new CSIRO study. Examining the weight management habits of more than 2, 300 Australians the CSIRO found 69 per cent of respondents identified ...
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Century Aluminum is proposing to continue operating its 224,000 mt/year Mt Holly smelter in South Carolina at 50% capacity even as the company on Monday began shutting down the first potline in a dispute with its longtime electricity ...
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Wind generation in November blew through a 31-month-old record share of total energy in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a new report shows, and an expert said it contributed to ERCOT's low on-peak power prices that month. Wind ...
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Philips announced it will be closing down its lighting plant in Burgaw, Pender County in North Carolina, U.S. recently, according to a report by Triangle Business Journal. The factory closure, which will become effective as of Sept. 2016, ...
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Calpine plans to suspend operations on February 22, 2016 at its 91-MW cogeneration facility near Houston, but a major transmission project on which state regulators are to decide Thursday was not a factor, a spokesman said. The Electric ...
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The NYMEX January natural gas futures contract rebounded Monday from Friday's selloff to settle at $2.235/MMBtu, up 2.3 cents. The January contract dropped 8.7 cents Friday to settle at $2.212/MMBtu on the contract's first day in the ...
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Enbridge said it is still eyeing a 2017 start date for the largest pipeline project in company history as oral testimony began in Canada Monday over the Line 3 replacement project. Two weeks of testimony from the First Nations to Canada's ...
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The premium of gold over platinum has moved to its largest on record, at around $240/oz, as platinum becomes increasingly detached from gold and some investors look to take advantage, sources said Tuesday. Platinum was trading around ...
Wouldn't it be great to wake up to a cool blue light during a sunny morning and come home to a warm sunset lighting mood in the evening? With Qube™ smart light bulbs, you can do just that. The new Qube, a 24/7 connected Smart Bulb ...
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Bridgelux’s strategic partnership with one of China’s largest electronic company China Electronics Corporation (CEC) and its LED industry strategy has made CEC the ideal acquisitor among potential buyers, wrote Bridgelux CEO ...
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The low density polyethylene unit at Dow Chemical's Bahia Blanca, Argentina, petrochemical complex remains shut two days after an explosion and fire at the unit, a Dow spokeswoman said Thursday. "Dow is actively conducting an inquiry into ...
Foresight Energy is slowly moving forward to return its idled Deer Run thermal coal longwall mine in Illinois to operation, although officials still did not know Thursday exactly when that return might occur. Mine rescue teams have ...
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The 849 MW FitzPatrick nuclear power plant in Scriba, New York, will be shut permanently by late 2016 or early 2017, due to "the continued deteriorating economics of the facility," Entergy said Monday in a statement. The unit is licensed to ...
UK-based baby food company Cow & Gate has initiated a precautionary recall of 19,000 packets of its 330gms Cow & Gate Sunny Start My First Banana Muesli from 10 months after a few customers complained of having found moth larvae in the ...