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the policy that the earth's natural patterns suggests. Use the eco-system's self-regulating feedback loops as a model. What then needs changing? Basically, the flow of money spent to own or use Earth (both sites and resources) must visit each of us. Our agent, government, exists to collect this natural rent via fees and to disburse the collected revenue via dividends. Doing this, we could forgo taxes on homes and earnings and subsidies of either the needy or the greedy. For more, see our web site, our pamphlet of the title above, or any of our other lit pieces; ask for our literature list.
a new field of study offered in place of economics, as astronomy replaced astrology and chemistry replaced alchemy. Conventional economics, in which GNP can do well while people suffer, is a bit too superstitious for my renaissance upbringing. If I'm to propitiate unseen forces, it won't be inflation or "the market"; let it be theEgyptian cat goddess. At least then we'd have fewer rats. Meanwhile, believing in reason leads to a new policy, also christened geonomics. That's the proposal to share (a kind of management, the "nomics" part) the worth of Mother Earth (the "geo" part). If our economies are to work right, people need to see prices that tell the truth. Now taxes and subsidies distort prices, tricking people into squandering the planet. Using land dues and rent dividends instead lets prices be precise, guiding people to get more from less and thereby shrink their workweek. More free time ought to make us happy enough to evolve beyond economics, except when nostalgic for superstition.
the study of the money we spend on the nature we use. When we pay that money to private owners, we reward both speculation and over-extraction. Robert Kiyosaki's bestseller, Rich Dad's Prophecy, says, "One of the reasons McDonald's is such a rich company is not because it sells a lot of burgers but because it owns the land at some of the best intersections in the world. The main reason Kim and I invest in such properties is to own the land at the corner of the intersection. (p 200) My real estate advisor states that the rich either made their money in real estate or hold their money in real estate." (p 141, via Greg Young) When government recovers the rents for natural advantages for everyone, it can save citizens millions. Ben Sevack, Montreal steel manufacturer, tells us (August 12) that Alberta, by leasing oil & gas fields, recovers enough revenue to be the only province in Canada to get by without a sales tax and to levy a flat provincial income tax. While running for re-election, provincial Premier Ralph Klein proposes to abolish their income tax and promises to eliminate medical insurance premiums and use resource revenue to pay for all medical expense for seniors. After all this planned tax-cutting and greater expense, they still expect a large budget surplus. Even places without oil and gas have high site values in their downtowns, and high values in their utility franchises. Recover the values of locations and privileges, displace the harmful taxes on sales, salaries, and structures, then use the revenue to fund basic government and pay residents a dividend, and you have geonomics in action.
a manual. The world did not come without a way for people to prosper, and the planet to heal and stay well; that way is geonomics. Economies are part of the ecosystem. Both generate surpluses and follow self-regulating feedback loops. A cycle like the Law of Supply and Demand is one of the economy's on/off loops. Our spending for land and resources – things that nobody made and everybody needs – constitutes our society's surplus. Those profits without production (remember, nobody produced Earth) can become our commonwealth. To share it, we could pay land dues in to the public treasury (wouldn't oil companies love that?) and get rent dividends back, a la Alaska's oil dividend. Doing so let's us axe taxes and jettison subsidies. Taxes and subsidies distort price (the DNA of exchange), violate quid pro quo by benefiting the well-connected more than anyone else, reinforce hierarchy of state over citizen, and are costly to administer (you don't really need so much bureaucracy, do you?). Conversely, land dues motivate people to not waste sites, resources, and the ecosystem while rent dividends motivate people to not waste themselves. Receiving this income supplement – a Citizens Dividend – people can invest in their favorite technology or outgrow being "economan" and shrink their overbearing workweek in order to enjoy more time with family, friends, community, and nature. Then in all that free time, maybe we could figure out just what we are here for.
a neologism for sharing "rent" or "social surplus" – the money we spend on the nature we use. When we buy land, such as the land beneath a home, we typically pay the wrong person – the homeowner. Instead, since land cost us nothing to make and is the common heri-tage of us all, rather than pay the owner, we should pay ourselves, our neighbors, our community. That is, we should all pay land dues to the public treasury, then our government would pay us land dividends from this collected revenue. It's similar to the Alaska oil dividend, almost $2,000 last year. Indeed, the annual rental value of land, oil, all other natural resources, including the broadcast spectrum and other government-granted permits such as corporate charters, totals several trillion dollars each year. It's so much that some could be spent on basic social services, the rest parceled out as a divi-dend, as Tom Paine suggested, and taxes (except any on natural rents) could be abolished, as Thomas Jeffer-son suggested. Were we sharing Earth by sharing her worth, territorial disputes would be fewer, less intense, and more resolvable.
about the money we spend on the nature we use. It flows torrentially yet invisibly, often submerged in the price of housing, food, fuel, and everything else. Flowing from the many to the few, natural rent distorts prices and rewards unjust and unsustainable choices. Redirected via dues and dividends to flow from each to all, "rent" payments would level the playing field and empower neighbors to shrink their workweek and expand their horizons. Modeled on nature's feedback loops, earlier proposals to redirect rent found favor with Paine, Tolstoy, and Einstein. Wherever tried, to the degree tried, redirecting rent worked. One of today's versions, the green tax shift, spreads out of Europe. Another, the Property Tax Shift, activists can win at the local level, building a world that works right for everyone.
an alternative to conventional land trusts. Just as it seems some functions should not be left to the market – private courts and cops invite corruption (while private mediation is fine) – just so some land should not be left in the market. That said, sacred sites do not make much of a model for treating the vast acreage of land that we need to use. So the usual trust model, which is anti-use and counter-market, can not apply where it's needed most. Trust proponents worry about ownership and control – two very human ambitions – but they're not central. Supposedly, we the people own millions acres – acres that private corporations treat as private fiefdoms – and conversely, the Nature Conservancy owns wilderness the public can some places use as parks. So, the issue is not who owns but who gets the rent – ideally, all of us.
a POV that Spain's president might try. A few blocks from my room in Madrid at a book fair to promote literacy, Sr Zapatero, while giving autographs and high fives to kids, said books are very expensive and he'd see about getting the value added tax on them cut down to zero. (El Pais, June 4; see, politicians can grasp geo-logic.) But why do we raise the cost of any useful product? Why not tax useless products? Even more basic: is being better than a costly tax good enough? Our favorite replacement for any tax is no tax: instead, run government like a business and charge full market value for the permits it issues, such as everything from corporate charters to emission allowances to resource leases. These pieces of paper are immensely valuable, yet now our steward, the state, gives them away for nearly free, absolutely free in some cases. Government is sitting on its own assets and needs merely to cash in by doing what any rational entity in the economy does – negotiate the best deal. Then with this profit, rather than fund more waste, pay the stakeholders, we citizenry, a dividend. Thereby geonomics gets rid of two huge problems. It replaces taxes with full-value fees and replaces subsidies for special interests with a Citizens Dividend for people in general. Neither left nor right, this reform is what both nature lovers and liberty lovers need to promote, right now.
what you do when you see economies as part of the ecosystem, following feedback loops and storing up energy. Surplus energy – fat or profit – enables us to produce and reproduce. To recycle society's surplus, the commonwealth, geonomics would replace taxes with land dues (charged to users of sites and resources, in-cluding the EM spectrum, and extra to polluters), and replace subsidies with rent dividends to citizens (a la Alaska's oil dividend). Without taxes and subsidies to distort them, prices become precise, reflect accurately our costs and values; then, motivated by no more than the bottom line, both producers and consumers make sustainable choices. While no place uses geonomics in its entirety, some places use parts of it, most notably a shift of the property tax off buildings, onto locations. Shifting the property tax drives efficient use of land, in-fills cities, improves the housing stock, makes homes affordable, engenders jobs and investment opportunities, lowers crime, raises civic participation, etc – overall it makes cities more livable. Geonomics – a way to share the bounty of nature and society – is something we can work for locally, globally, and in between.
the annoying habit of seeing the hand of land in almost all transactions. In geonomics we maintain the distinction between the items bearing exchange value that come into being via human effort — wealth — and those that don't — land. Keeping this distinction in the forefront makes it obvious that speculating in land drives sprawl, that hoarding land retards Third World development, that borrowing to buy land plus buildings engorges banks, that much so-called "interest" is quasi-rent, that the cost of land inflates faster than the price of produced goods and services, that over half of corporate profit is from real estate (Urban Land Institute, 1999). Summing up these analyses, geonomists offer a Grand Unifying Theory, that the flow of rent pulls all other indicators in its wake. Geonomics differs from economics as chemistry from alchemy, as astronomy from astrology.
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"Food for People, Not for Profit"—as with many co-ops that started up in the late 60s and early 70s, this was the original slogan of La Montañita Food Cooperative, which was founded in Albuquerque in 1976 with three hundred member families. According to Robin Seydel, a co-op staff person since 1985, it was very much a "hippie" establishment in the beginning, dedicated to gaining access to food that was "off-limits" at the time, including organics, whole grains and macrobiotics. The co-op also threw early jabs at the industrial food system by offering workshops on food irradiation, GMOs and the links between pesticides and cancer. Its counterculture spirit even extended to its organizational structure. By setting up as a member-owned cooperative association, it defined itself as an alternative to the corporate model of soulless profit making.
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Fast forward nearly forty years and what was once counterculture is now mainstream, which is good news for all of us! Today, La Montañita has over 17,000 member households, employs nearly 300 people, manages six stores in three cities, operates a regional food distribution hub and is an active member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association, in which over 140 food co-ops have a combined annual sales of more than $1.5 billion and over one million consumer-owners.
This good news begs a question: could other kinds of regenerative activities considered economically off-limits today—such as building soil carbon or restoring damaged ecosystems or feeding large numbers of people sustainably—follow a similar trajectory? Perhaps cooperatives are the ticket to getting this important work accomplished as well. What about a restoration cooperative!
It's not a pipe dream. Cooperatives are all around us, including worker-owned manufacturing co-ops, depositor-owned credit unions and agricultural marketing co-ops. Overall, there are nearly 30,000 cooperatives in the United States, accounting for two million jobs and $500 billion in annual revenues. IRS-recognized categories include 1) consumer cooperatives, which are owned by the people who buy their products or use their services—REI is the nation's largest example; 2) producer cooperatives, set up so that farmers and others can sell their products under one label—Organic Valley, for instance; 3) purchasing cooperatives, for businesses working together in order to be competitive with national chains—like the members of the National Cooperative Grocers Association; and 4) worker cooperatives, which are owned and run by employees—a good example is the Mondragon Corporation in the Basque region of Spain (See the extensive article on Mondragon in the September 2014 Coop Connection News at www.lamontanita.coop)
The consumer cooperative category is by far the largest in the United States, and the movement as a whole is gaining momentum. Recent research suggests why: the broad and diverse benefits created by co-ops make them resilient in a crisis. Credit unions, for example, survived the Great Recession of 2008 relatively unscathed because they viewed rampant mortgage speculation as contrary to the interests of their members. Consumer cooperatives mostly focus on the essentials necessary to a healthy society: food, water, electricity, insurance and finance. Their primary mission is to provide public services, not to act as engines for wealth accumulation. This public service orientation is why it is not such a big leap to extend the cooperative model to ecological restoration and carbon sequestration.
Like nonprofits, cooperatives are a legally sanctioned form of private ownership in service of the public good. While they are profit making, they are not profit maximizing. This sets cooperatives squarely against the corporate model of doing business, whose overriding goal is to turn a small pile of money into a larger pile of money (to paraphrase Wendell Berry).
In contrast, cooperatives see money as a means to an end: creating an economy that supports rather than diminishes the greater public good.
"The cooperative economy is helping to reawaken an ancient wisdom about living together in community, something largely lost in the spread of capitalism," writes Marjorie Kelly, an author and advocate for cooperatives. Cooperatives represent a need that "arises from an unexpected place—not from government action, or protests in the streets, but from within the structure of our economy itself. Not from the leadership of a charismatic individual, but from the longing in many hearts, the genius of many minds, the effort of many hands to build what we know, instinctively, we need."
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There are many other reasons to support the cooperative model. La Montañita pays a living wage—and did so before living wages became popular—and it provides an excellent benefits package. Its food hub, the Co-op Distribution Center, serves several hundred local producers in a 300 mile radius around Albuquerque. It is farmer- and rancher-friendly, sending them the important message that they can count on the Co-op to be there. Which explains the unofficial motto of the cooperative movement: "We were local before local was cool."
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Our member farms are some of the best and most experienced organic seed growers in North America. We uphold high quality standards to ensure the viability and rigor of our seeds and stand proudly behind our product. We stake our business on solid, work-horse organic varieties that have been maintained and developed in the prime seed production regions of the west (Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, North Dakota, Washington, Oregon, California).
Our seed is defined by a few key traits: organic, open pollinated, and public domain. These set us apart in the marketplace and enable us to provide organic farmers with quality, open pollinated seed, protect and expand our public organic seed supply, support environmental stewardship, and build a resilient organic seed trade. Our farms are certified organic, adhering to USDA regulations for the production of organic seed. We nurture our crops by building rich, healthy soil and encouraging beneficial organisms such as bacteria, insects, and birds to keep pests in check. We don't use genetic modification, irradiation, sewage sludge, or synthetic agrochemicals.
Our seed is open pollinated (OP), which means that saved seed will breed true and that farmers have direct access and control of their seed supply. In contrast, F-1 hybrids and GMO varieties are impossible for farmers to reproduce, leaving them dependent on seed companies for new seed. OP varieties reproduce through natural pollination via wind or insects. They breed true provided that there is no cross pollination from other varieties of the same species. If particular plant traits are desired, humans may use natural mechanisms such as hand-pollination or removing undesirable plants from the population before pollination begins. This traditional, open pollinated breeding approach allows for continuous adaptation of a variety across diverse and changing climatic conditions, and represents dynamic evolution in action.
We're out to save organic seed and we want you to do it too, so all of our seed is held in the public domain (PD). That means there are no restrictions for saving, multiplying, sharing, or selling seeds you produce from our seeds. Denying seed sovereignty and centralizing seed supplies that are the basis for our food supply threaten food security; we put all of our seed in the public domain for customers to reproduce and improve, creating a worldwide, bio-regionally adapted, publicly held and genetically resilient organic seed bank.
To order seed from the Family Farmers Seed Coop go to www.organicseedcoop.com. La Montanita Co-op supported the creation of the FFSC by being the first retail outlet to sell their seed, providing start-up capital and with branding/marketing materials.
Co-ops are Everywhere: Shifting the Focus of Business
By Sarah Wentzel Fisher
Co-ops often hide in plain sight. They are all around us all over the world. The take the form of electric companies, agricultural businesses, sporting goods stores, media outlets, banks, breweries, bookstores, bike shops, and, of course, grocery stores. To the consumer, co-ops function like any other business. The fundamental difference between co-ops and privately or publicly owned corporations is who owns the business, where the money goes, and who sets the business priorities.
As a refresher, a co-op is owned and governed by its members. These individuals or groups of businesses all have an equal stake in governing the organization and they share in the profits. They are owned by and operated for the benefit of those using the co-ops services.
Because they wear their co-op model on their sleeve, natural foods co-ops like La Montanita often get their business model misinterpreted by the media. For example I often hear people say the co-op is a nonprofit, or the co-op is a member club. Our business is neither of these—it is a cooperative.
The co-op model has had more and less economic significance historically. The official designation the US government and the IRS recognize (www.sba.gov/content/cooperative) has its roots in the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers who formed a cooperative in Rochdale, England in 1844 to address the needs of textile workers not being paid adequately to afford basic staples. The founders articulated a set of guiding principles that most modern co-ops worldwide acknowledge as a baseline for their operations. (To read about other co-op principles, please visit www.lamontanita.coop/mission/.)
In modern times, as resources are increasingly unevenly distributed amongst the haves and have-nots, the cooperative model has grown in strength. What the cooperative model represents for many businesses is not just a distribution of wealth, but also a shift in focus from profits to a more mission driven business. For example this September the Centre for Human Ecology, a Glasgow-based academic institution will decide whether or not to restructure as a cooperative. According to an article by Dave Matthews published in the Times Higher Education, reorganizing as a coop represents a solution to financial woes, as well as greater democracy. At a time when academic institutions struggle to remain financially viable and students and researchers are increasingly asked to shoulder the financial burden, would restructuring as a coop provide a solution with its model of collective ownership and democratic governance?
The cooperative model also represents a method for starting business without one person needing to have significant start-up capital. This September a cash-poor, but social capital rich group opened the doors of one of very few cooperative breweries in Minneapolis. Fair State Brewery engaged over 350 members at $200 each for lifetime membership. The brewery leveraged the capital to open its doors, and founding members Evan Sallee, Niko Tonks and Matthew Hauck happily pour pints with the motto, "Drink like you own the place."
Education plays an important role in making the cooperative model viable. Without a clear understanding and direct experience with how a coop works, considering it as a viable business model as an enterprising adult may seem challenging. Much of the work around cooperative youth leadership development in the US happens through the support and initiative of rural electric coops. This year the National Rural Electric Coop Association will celebrate fifty years of a Youth Leadership Council. Regional rural electric coops choose young leaders to learn the coop model, attend summer leadership camps, and visit DC to engage elected officials in dialogue about economics, politics, and service.
Cooperatives are growing, but coops only work and thrive when the membership actively participates in the business. Participation takes many different forms. At our co-op, members primarily participate by shopping, but members can also volunteer, vote in elections, and run for the board. Every level of participation is valuable an important to the health of the business. Next time you shop at the coop, consider what your purchases mean to the business? What does the business mean to the community? Then, consider sharing these thoughts with a friend.
Bag Credit Organization of the Month: Conservation Voters of New Mexico Education Fund
By Liliana Castillo
At Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund (CVNMEF), we believe that protecting our environment starts with the people of New Mexico. Our vision is for a New Mexico where decision-makers and public policies represent the conservation values of our people.
We are working toward our vision by engaging the people of New Mexico in our long-standing shared values of protecting our air, land, water and the health of our communities. We do this by mobilizing people to advocate on policy, enhancing the voting process, encouraging people to vote, cultivating conservation leaders and amplifying the voices of those most affected by environmental injustice.
Conservation values run deep and are an entrenched part of history and culture in this state. Those values are at times not reflected in the decisions made by some rural New Mexican elected officials. Working closely with local residents and leaders from communities throughout rural New Mexico, CVNMEF engages communities in these areas around the environmental issues important to them.
Since 2005, CVNMEF has worked to effectively advocate for conservation by convening the Environmental Alliance of New Mexico (EANM), a coalition of two dozen organizations working to advance a common agenda of environmental priorities at the state legislature. EANM's partner networks and membership represent over 50,000 New Mexicans statewide and cross-sector interests including public health, business, faith, sportsmen, clean energy, environmental justice and conservation interests. EANM serves as a primary way to unify and align the conservation community and demonstrate broad support for conservation policy.
CVNMEF provides a plethora of educational information and trainings to help people take action for environmental protection. Some of the activities that CVNMEF promotes are contacting our elected officials, writing letters to the editor, testifying at public meetings and hearings, and participating in town hall meetings. For more information, or to make a donation, go to www.CVNMEF.org.
BAG CREDIT DONATIONS: This month your bag credit donations will go to Conservation Voter of New Mexico Education Fund. In August, your bag credit donations totaling $2295.60 went to Camp Fire Kids Care Program. THANK YOU!
20th Annual Dia del Rio! Fall with the Open Space Division
by Kent Swanson, Associate Planner, City of Albuquerque Open Space Division
Ours is a city of contrasting landscapes, with vast desert scrublands giving way to the lush river forest of the Rio Grande bosque, and piñon/juniper foothills leading to the majestic Sandia Mountains. These special places help to define who we are as a city.
Join the Open Space Division, the Open Space Alliance, REI, the Rio Grande Nature Center State Park, and other local organizations for a variety of conservation projects that nurture and protect the bosque and river, including trail work, re-vegetation, and trash clean up. There will be activities appropriate for all ages.
Please arrive at the Rio Grande Nature Center, 2901 Candelaria NW, Albuquerque promptly at 8:30am on Saturday, October 18th to sign in and enjoy snacks provided by our other generous sponsors. At the end of the event, make sure to stick around for a fabulous prize drawing! Parking is limited so PLEASE CARPOOL! Bring gloves, sun protection, plenty of water, and a sack lunch. Free snacks will be provided during morning sign in.
REGISTER: Register online with REI at www.rei.com/albuquerque or by calling 247-1191. The first 80 people to pre-register will receive a free t-shirt the day of the event, courtesy of REI!
Organize your own clean up the day of the event. Do you live near the bosque? Or do you have a favorite area near the river? Open Space will provide trash bags and haul off the collected trash. Call 452-5216 or email email@example.com to sign up your group for your own cleanup.


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Braemar Engineering Announce One Stop Shop for LNG Fueliing
Braemar Engineering, the marine engineering consultancy arm within the Braemar Shipping Services Group, has launched a new venture which recognizes the growing importance of LNG as a global maritime fuel source. It will be taking its experience and skills in dynamic positioning (DP), LNG in the marine environment, and LNG supply, and applying them to a new operation that will advise on every aspect of the use of LNG as a fuel source in the offshore sector. "This venture is a logical extension for us," said Geoff Green, Managing Director of Braemar Engineering (formerly Wavespec). "We have unparalleled expertise in the use of LNG as fuel in the marine environment and the marine transportation and storage of LNG. Braemar Engineering has been involved in projects which have delivered more than 100 LNG fuelled vessels in the last 10 years, and we are one of only a handful of companies with the capability to carry out an LNG fuel supply FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis). This involves a systematic analysis of these complex systems to identify potential design and process failures before they occur and we then use our specialist knowledge to minimize the risk of failure." Braemar Engineering's shore-based LNG group supports the entire LNG supply chain from natural gas pipeline supply through to pre-treatment and LNG liquefaction, LNG transportation by land or sea
Kuwait in Talks on Russian LNG Imports
Gazprom informs it has hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Abdulaziz Al-Adwani, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Kuwait to the Russian Federation to discuss prospects for bilateral cooperation in the oil and gas sector. In particular, the principals addressed the idea of broadening their co-operation on Gazprom's LNG supplies to Kuwait
Petronet LNG Eyes Supplier
Petronet LNG Ltd. is in talks to buy Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Chevron's Gorgon project in Australia. The Indian firm wants to import 2.5 million tonnes a year of LNG from Gorgon from 2010 using a new terminal being built at the southern city of Kochi. Petronet built India's first LNG terminal at Dahej, on the western coast, two years ago to import super-cooled gas from Qatar. If LNG supplies from Gorgon were delayed, Petronet would divert gas from its terminal at Dahej
Louisiana LNG Project Gets Important Non-FTA Export Approval
Cameron LNG, one of the most advanced US LNG export projects, (promoted by GDF SUEZ as a shareholder and a capacity holder), has been granted conditional non-Free Trade Agreement (FTA) approval from the US Department of Energy (DOE). The Non-FTA agreement will enable GDF SUEZ to export LNG from the Cameron LNG project, in Louisiana, into countries that have not signed a FTA with the USA. GDF Suez inform that the project received FTA approval in January 2012
Harvey Gulf Breaks Ground with LNG Facility
Louisiana out in front on LNG bunkering infrastructure. New Orleans-based Harvey Gulf International Marine (HGIM) has announced the ground breaking of construction on its $25 million Phase 1, Slip B, LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) fueling facility at their Port Fourchon, LA terminal. When operational later this year, HGIM's LNG facility will be the first of its kind in the United States. This technologically-advanced, environmentally-safe
Deal Struck on LNG Delivery for Shipowners
Unique partnership offers the first fully integrated LNG solution to ship owners. WesPac Midstream LLC (WesPac), a leading provider of energy infrastructure and LNG solutions, announced a partnership agreement with Clean Marine Energy LLC (CME), the global facilitator of finance mechanisms for LNG conversion and Emission Control Area (ECA) compliance. This strategic partnership will ensure the supply and delivery of LNG to ship owners utilizing CME's Emissions Compliance Service
Calypso LNG Deepwater Port Application Deemed Complete By Coast Guard
Suez Energy North America's subsidiary, Calypso LNG, LLC has received a letter from the United States Coast Guard deeming complete Calypso's application for a Deepwater Port License. A Notice of Application will be published in the Federal Register which will start a statutory review period for approval of a license to build and operate Calypso's proposed offshore liquefied natural gas facility. On March 1, 2006, Calypso filed a Deepwater Port License Application with the U.S
Signet Acquires Colle Towing
Signet Maritime Corporation, a marine transportation and logistics company, continues to grow with their recent purchase of Colle Towing Company's assets and business operations. Since 1878, Colle Towing Company Inc., Pasacagoula MS has been providing offshore, harbor and intracoastal marine towing on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Assets and personnel in Pascagoula will begin operations immediately under the new name, Colle Maritime Company, a Division of Signet Maritime Corporation
Joint Effort Pioneers Large LNG Containerships
United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) will expand its fleet with new super-efficient container vessels, prepared for "dual fuel" through a later LNG Fuel Gas Supply System (FGSS) retrofit after the delivery of the vessels. Through a technical cooperation with Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) and IHI Corporation (IHI), Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI), the shipbuilder for UASC intends to obtain an Approval in Principle (AiP) from UASC's designated classification
Kalleklev to Head DNV GL's SE Asia Oil & Gas
Energy demand in South East Asia is expected to grow at twice the rate of the rest of the world. DNV GL has appointed Arve Johan Kalleklev regional manager for Oil & Gas in South East Asia just as the company is establishing a dedicated LNG and Gas Consulting unit in Singapore. The unit will support the extensive development plans for a safe, secure and reliable gas and LNG infrastructure in Asia. It is estimated that USD 460 billion will need to be invested in South East
Two-month Global LNG Rally Ends, Weak Oil Tempts Buyers
Asian spot liquefied natural gas prices ended their 2-month rally this week, interrupted by weak demand in Japan and South Korea as falling crude oil prices push importers to turn to oil-linked long-term LNG supplies. Spot LNG prices for November delivery lost ground to $14
Integrated LNG Solution for Ship Owners
WesPac Midstream LLC (WesPac), a provider of energy infrastructure and LNG solutions, announced a partnership agreement with Clean Marine Energy LLC (CME), the global facilitator of finance mechanisms for LNG conversion and Emission Control Area (ECA) compliance
Weak Oil Threatens US Export of LNG
Plunging global oil prices may turn hopes for cheap liquefied natural gas supplies from the United States into a costly disappointment for Asian buyers who have already invested billions of dollars in long-term contracts. The 26 percent price slide since June to $85 a barrel exposes cracks in
FortisBC Starts Expansion of Tilbury LNG Facility
FortisBC – a subsidiary of Fortis Inc. has officially started construction of its $400 million Tilbury LNG Facility expansion project today. The company is adding 1.1 million gigajoules of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to storage and 34,000 gigajoules per day of liquefaction capacity
LNG Finalizes Acquisition of Bear Head LNG Project
Liquefied Natural Gas Limited today informed having finalised the acquisition of 100% of Bear Head LNG Corporation (BHLC). This follows the announcement to the ASX by LNGL on 28 July 2014 regarding the signing of an agreement to acquire BHLC from a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum
New LNG Carrier Bunkers in Russia
Gazprom Marketing & Trading's (GM&T) says that its newly delivered LNG carrier "Pskov" has received bunkers (Heavy Fuel Oil and Marine Gas Oil) at the port of Nakhodka in the Primorskiy Region of Russia.
LNG Hybrid Barge Launched
Becker Marine Systems' new LNG Hybrid Barge acts like a floating power plant, supplying low-emission energy to cruise ships The LNG Hybrid Barge is being eagerly awaited at the Port of Hamburg. On September 5, 2014, the technical launching was celebrated in Komárno, Slovakia.
MARAD Publishes Study on LNG Bunkering
The Maritime Administration (MARAD) released a comprehensive study examining the options for liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering and the necessary infrastructure, safety, regulatory, and training factors of each in supplying LNG to ships as a propulsion fuel in the maritime sector
Crowley Gets Small-Scale NFTA LNG Supply License
Crowley Maritime Corp. informs that its subsidiary Carib Energy LLC has been granted a 20-year, small-scale U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) export license for the supply, transportation and distribution of U.S.-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Non-Free Trade Agreement (NTFA) countries in
For Europe's LNG Ports, Russia Gas Fears and US Exporters Buoy Demand
Gas buyers nervous of Russia cutting supply are helping solve Europe's problem of too many underused liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, as they seek space at France's Dunkirk plant. Adding to renewed demand is the more potent interest of major east Asian companies
Pivotal to Deliver LNG to Carib for use in Puerto Rico
Pivotal LNG, Inc., a subsidiary of AGL Resources, announced this week a long-term agreement to sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Crowley Maritime Corp. subsidiary Carib Energy LLC (Carib). The LNG will be delivered to Puerto Rico. This is the first delivery of LNG for industrial customers in
BP, Pavilion Ink Long-Term LNG Deals
Pavilion to buy 0.4 mln tpy LNG from BP for 20 years. Aims to become a global LNG firm in medium to long term. Working with SGX, regional govts on LNG price marker. Singapore's Pavilion Energy said it had signed two long-term contracts to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) for trading and supply
Savvy Fuel Management Fuels TOTE's Growth
As Tote pioneers the use of natural gas as a marine fuel with two groundbreaking projects, Anthony Chiarello combines the strength and diversity of the Saltchuk group of companies with a forward-thinking, environmentally correct Tote business plan.
MOL, Mitsui in Cameron LNG Transport Deal
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) apprise that a contract has been signed with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to charter two new 155,000m3 LNG carriers that will transport shale gas-derived liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States. MOL will manage the new vessels
Skangass Builds LNG Terminal in Pori, Finland
With investment support from the Finnish Government of 185 million NOK Skangass has decided to build a new import terminal for LNG. The terminal will be completed in 2016. Skangass plans to create an efficient LNG logistics chain in the Pori area.


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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Brett Favre has a broken thumb, and that could mean he's ready for a big game against the Minnesota Vikings.
Eight times during his career, the Green Bay Packers' apparently indestructible quarterback has been hurt so badly his availability for the following game was in question.
Eight times he played -- and played well. He's 6-2 in those games with 15 touchdown passes and six interceptions.
"My experience in the past with Brett is that it affects him more positively because he focuses better and overcomes it and plays better," offensive coordinator Tom Rossley said.
In what many consider the best game of his career, Favre threw five touchdown passes against Chicago in 1995 with a severely sprained left ankle so heavily taped he could hardly move.
He even played well enough to win the two games he lost, throwing for 402 yards against the Bears in 1993 despite a bruised left thigh and for 288 yards against Detroit in 1999 with a lacerated right thumb.
"I think he takes on a challenge when you don't think he can do something better than anyone else around him," Rossley said.
Favre, who broke his thumb on his second pass attempt at St. Louis on Oct. 19, has gradually increased his throws at practice this week after taking eight days off thanks to the Packers' bye week.
Vikings coach Mike Tice doesn't expect to see anything less than Favre's best on Sunday.
"Are you kidding me? He wears a cape," Tice said. "If it was somebody else, I'd say yeah. But he's unbelievable."
Favre has made 197 consecutive NFL starts, a record for a quarterback.
"Regardless of what people may think, I'm no different than the next guy," Favre said. "When I hurt my knee last year, I come back and play and it's almost like, 'Ah, he wasn't that hurt.' But it hurt. It hurt for a while."
And he's sure his thumb will, too.
"Every throw I made against St. Louis, it hurt after the fact," Favre said. "But when you're into a game, before you know it, it's over. You just kind of block it out for that two- or three-second span."
Favre completed 23 of 32 passes for 268 yards and two touchdowns against the Rams, then learned the next day he had played with a broken thumb almost the entire game.
Favre will wear a splint or a sheath against the Vikings at the insistence of team doctors who are worried he'll do further damage.
The medical staff wants him to sit out, Favre said. But this is a crossroads game for the Packers (3-4), who would fall four games behind the Vikings (6-1) with a loss.
"I want to play because I think I can help this team win, not because I'm trying to be a tough guy or extend some streak," Favre said.
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Major League Baseball is investigating allegations Alex Rodriguez participated in illegal poker games and plans to interview the New York Yankees slugger.
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CHICAGO—Major League Baseball is investigating allegations Alex Rodriguez participated in illegal poker games and plans to interview the New York Yankees slugger.
Rodriguez also faced questions about his gambling habits in 2005, when the Daily News reported he attended games at an underground poker club in New York. The all-star third baseman later acknowledged "it wasn't the right thing to do," and checked in with Major League Baseball before holding a charity poker tournament the following year.
Now the league wants to talk to him again.
"We take this very seriously and have been investigating this matter since the initial allegation," Major League Baseball said Wednesday in a release. "As part of the investigation, the commissioner's office will interview Mr. Rodriguez."
Star Magazine reported last month that several people saw A-Rod playing in games hosted at Hollywood hotels and residences; his publicist then denied that he participated.
Rodriguez's name is not mentioned in any court filings in relation to the games.
MLB said then that the report was the first the commissioner's office had heard about the accusation and baseball officials would look into the matter.
A spokesman for the Yankees declined comment when asked about Rodriguez on Wednesday. A message was left seeking comment from Richard Rubenstein, Rodriguez's publicist.
"I don't really have any comment on that," manager Joe Girardi said before the Yankees faced the Chicago White Sox. "Let baseball handle those things."
The 36-year-old Rodriguez had right knee surgery on July 14 but is expected to resume baseball activities on Thursday at the Yankees' facility in Florida. The three-time AL MVP is hitting .295 with 13 home runs and 52 RBIs this season
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Tongala meat processing company H W Greenham and Sons has created 52 new jobs with the launch of an afternoon shift.January 2, 2013 4:33am
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Tongala meat processing company H W Greenham and Sons has created 52 new jobs with the launch of an afternoon shift.
The jobs include a range of permanent roles spread across the site's meat production process.
Most of the new workers have been recruited locally during the past three months and the new shift began work last month.
Many have previous experience in the meat processing industry but the company also runs extensive training programs to enable its staff to increase their skills and competencies.
H W Greenham executive chairman Peter Greenham said the plant was now back up to around three quarters of its maximum capacity.
''The drought had a major effect on us,'' he said.
''When it was at its worst we couldn't keep up with demand as farmers de-stocked, and then when rainfall returned to normal we really struggled for cattle because farmers were hanging on to everything they could to rebuild their herds.
''It's great to see the dairy industry regaining its former strength. Our farmers really are a very resilient lot.''
The Tongala plant processes mainly cull dairy cows with most of its production exported to the USA as hamburger meat.
The news has provided a welcome boost to local employment figures and comes as the company prepares to celebrate 20 years since the abattoir was established on a green field site west of Tongala.
''We chose Tongala because of its location in the heart of the northern Victorian dairying region and processed the first cattle on January 29, 1993,'' Mr Greenham said.
''It was the first hot boning plant in Australia. I had looked at hot boning in New Zealand and thought it was much better to have a small abattoir close to the source of the cattle than the traditional very large operation in a capital city.
''I'm very pleased to say the theory has proved correct and despite our 20 years covering a ten-year period of drought, we are still here going strong and very optimistic about the future.''
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NASCAR delivers 2014 rules package to Cup teams
Dec 17, 2013, 2:30 PM EDT
Following last week's Sprint Cup test session at Charlotte Motor Speedway (pictured), NASCAR has announced the delivery of its 2014 competition package to Cup teams.
The new package will not be utilized in restrictor-plate races such as the season-opening Daytona 500 on Feb. 23, 2014. It will make its official debut on March 2, 2014 at the one-mile Phoenix International Raceway.
Major changes involved with the new package include:
- Statically set car at race ride height, eliminating pre- and post-race front height rules and inspection.
- The use of a front splitter with a square leading edge.
- Skirts at 4-inch minimum ground clearance on both the right and left sides.
- Rear fascia trimmed 1.375 inches higher in current scallop region.
- The use of an 8-inch high rear spoiler.
- The use of a 43-inch wide by 13-inch long radiator pan.
"It was important to get the final pieces of the rules package to teams as quickly as possible following the final tests last week," NASCAR VP of innovation and racing development Gene Stefanyshyn said in a statement.
"Throughout the process, we gained valuable data that informed many of the changes for 2014. This data will prove useful as we continue to evolve the racing product into the future."
This past year's debut of the Generation 6 cars for the Sprint Cup Series wasn't an altogether triumphant one, with the racing product often lacking at many of the series' 1.5-mile ovals.
Twice this fall at Charlotte, NASCAR tested a variety of potential aero configurations to try and solve the problem. In last week's aforementioned test, a series of simulated races were held to see how those configurations worked with a bigger group of cars.
"We looked at a number of important factors when finalizing what the 2014 version of the race package will look like," Stefanyshyn continued.
"The Gen-6 car has been a great asset to our sport. As we continue to improve and develop the racing product, we'll rely significantly on the critical data that has been generated by the entire industry over the last several weeks. We're extremely appreciative of those efforts."
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On Thursday's edition of NASCAR America, Kyle Petty joined Dave Briggs to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Hendrick Motorsports plane crash and how the team recovered from it.
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