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Category Archives: Energy
Winter Digest – Reorganization, Resolve, Revelation…and Rachmaninoff
I hope you’ve had a good year thus far. Over the last few months I’ve been collecting ideas for new stories, revisiting old ones, and reviewing developments locally and elsewhere that stand to embellish both. They will make their way … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Community, Development, Energy, Environment, Government, History, Local, Media, Money, Music, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Technology, Zoning
Tagged Big Sewickley Creek, Big Sewickley Creek Watershed Association, DEP, Devlin Robinson, Edgeworth Borough, Elder Vogel Jr, Emily Kinkead, Hadley Haas, Harshman CE Group, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, PA Environmental Hearing Board, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Quaker Valley School District, Rachmaninoff, Rob Matzie, Sewickley Borough, Valerie Gaydos, William Jasper, Yuja Wang
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Energy and History in Sewickley
Sewickley Borough government, in the form of borough council and the Historic Review Commission, deserves credit for deftly navigating some tricky waters, with their recent approval of a solar panel installation within one of the zones established by the borough’s historic preservation ordinance. … Continue reading
High Times on Poorhouse Run
Examining the future of a relic. Revisiting a not-so-distant area from my childhood in words and pictures, one that stands to weather changes that may affect us all. As an infant, my parents brought me home to an apartment above a … Continue reading
Fuzzy Fuel Marketing Math
I’ve been struggling with how to begin a post about fuel prices; it’s kind of like writing about death and taxes. We all know that gasoline prices are high, and that a lot of it has to do with imported oil, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Energy, Local, Transportation
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Drilling in Leetsdale – Outside The Box
First things first – Remembering the victims of the crash of USAir Flight 427, 17 years ago yesterday. Aside from a photo in today’s Beaver County Times, the local media seemed focused on other things. The 10th anniversary of 9/11 … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, History, Local, Public Safety
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The Notes in My Back Pocket
Lately I’ve been collecting little snippets of news items and personal things that I find interesting or noteworthy. I write this stuff down on paper and tuck it into one of my back pockets, where they sit until I get … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Energy, Local, Personal, Technology, World
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File Under ‘Cart Before the Horse’
The Post-Gazette reported Wednesday that State Sen. Lisa Baker (R-Luzerne Co.) got a bill through her Senate Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness committee (an interesting combination there) that would require energy companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale to: Draft and … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Growth, Internet, Local, Media, Public Safety, Technology
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Return To/From the ‘Sacrifice Zone’
I recently moved back to the Sewickley area after a long stint in western Colorado. The ‘Western Slope’, as that region is known, is rich in many potential sources of energy. The local paper there dubbed the region “Energy Alley” … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Government, Grand Junction, Health, Local, Personal
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The Power of Teamwork
A multiple-choice question has been going through my head: What were factors in the Steelers‘ loss to the Packers in the Super Bowl? A. Me putting my Steeler jersey on backwards by accident (I did)B. Pittsburgh native Christina Aguilera mangling … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community, Economics, Energy, Government, Local, Pittsburgh
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Drilling in the Local News
This past week, KREX-TV put together a multi-part series of investigative reports to mark the beginning of the November ratings sweeps period. They chose a timely and provocative topic; pipelines associated with gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing that had been … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Government, Local, Media
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