 Joy and sadness at Mayo Senate results
(Western People: Wed, 01 Aug) FIANNA Fail’s John Carty and Fine Gael’s Paddy Burke were elected to represent Mayo in the Seanad last week while Cllr Michelle Mulherin lost out. Both Carty, a native of Clare-morris, and Burke, of Castlebar, were elected to the agricultural panel.
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(u.tv: Wed, 01 Aug) The Irish government has opened up swathes of the Atlantic Ocean to energy giants searching for undiscovered oil and gas fields. But multi-national companies hoping to take advantage of relatively low taxes previously afforded to the industry may be disappointed with an overhaul of the regime.
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 Cairn India reports £8.7m loss
(The Scotsman: Business: Mon, 30 Jul) CAIRN India, a subsidiary of Edinburgh based oil and gas explorer Cairn Energy, said it had posted a consolidated net loss of £8.7 million in the June quarter.
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 The most dangerous metaphor
(Salon.com: Fri, 27 Jul) Moore's Law inspires runaway techno-utopianism, leaking far beyond the world of semiconductors. What happens if the music stops?
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 Eagle's Eye: Biofuel: Power from the poor
(Central Chronicle: Thu, 26 Jul) Access to cheap and abundannce of energy is a linchpin of modern industry and civilisation. Worldwide every day, we devour the energy equivalent of about 200 million barrels of oil, but much of this energy comes from conventioal fossil fuels.
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The day the drilling stopped
