The McKeesport Sewage Treatment Plant, one of nine plants on the Monongahela River that has treated wastewater from Marcellus Shale drilling operations. (Joaquin Sapien/ProPublica) Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy […]
Bernanke And The Super Fed Say It’s Over
The loud, national sigh we heard this week was America gratefully, but suspiciously, acknowledging Ben Bernanke’s claims that, well, it’s over. The Fed Chair is satisfied that the recession is in a turn around mode, or at least stabilizing. Covering his backdoor, he added that America can look forward to a sluggish recovery. Just in […]
Balochistan Budget 2009-10
BALOCHISTAN BUDGET 2009-10 BY : AALIA NOUSHERWANI • Mir Muhammad Asim Kurd Gailo presented the over Pak-Rupee 80 Billion Balochistan Budget on Jun 20 2009. The Budget was presented amidst gruesome propaganda of federation stealing on Balochistan’s deserved share ONCE AGAIN. Finance minister was indeed faced with a critical challenge of preparing a budget for […]
Cold Fusion: The Ghost of Free Energy
Two decades ago a pair of eminent chemists claimed to find the secret of almost limitless energy, only to have their results dismissed several weeks later. Today many scientists think there was truth in the claims but, as Jon Cartwright discovers, few are still listening The late writer Arthur C Clarke had a knack for […]
Liberal credit facility vital for maximising farm sector potential of J&K: Rather
Saying that agriculture development is impossible without availability of timely and adequate credit facility to the farming community, the Minister for Finance, Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Abdul Rahim Rather today enjoined upon the banks and financial institutions to increase the credit-deposit ratio (CDR) to tap the vast unexploited potential in agriculture and rural development […]
Shell Primes Spending Pump
Royal Dutch Shell laid out its plans for the next three years on Tuesday, promising to spend $31.0 billion to $32.0 billion this year to help boost oil and gas production by around 1.0 million barrels per day. The company also promised shareholders a tidy 5.0% dividend increase in 2009. But the stock fell more […]
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