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By Rod Belisle I have been a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) for 34 years, and a member of the IBEW and United Workers Federal Credit Union for just as many. If you are new to the credit union, welcome. If you are not new, but have noticed changes, you are correct. “This is not your father’s credit union” as they used to say, although some of you may actually be able to say that with some accuracy. This credit union was developed by the union trades se...

Read Article Wood-harvesting equipment, excavators and other machines that will be used to clear the corridor for the New England Clean Energy Connect project are arrayed Friday at the so-called Marshall Yard, off Route 201 near West Forks. At the rear, massive stacks of wooden erosion-control mats await transport into the forest. Photo courtesy of Aaron Turkel JOHNSON MOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP — Obscured by a swirling snow squall, an amphibious off-road transporter with 5-foot-high tires maneuvere...

Published: Monday, January 11, 2021 Former Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) with Deepwater Wind CEO Jeffrey Grybowski. Photo credit: Steven Senne/Associated Press President-elect Joe Biden selected former Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) last week as his choice for Commerce secretary. Raimondo (left) is pictured here in 2016 with Deepwater Wind CEO Jeffrey Grybowski at a wind turbine staging site near Providence, R.I. Steven Senne/Associated Press President-elect Joe Biden has laced his C...

NEW YORK • Major technology companies like Google and Microsoft, as well as telecommunications giants like Comcast and Verizon, are among the nearly 1,000 people and groups that have donated at least US$200 (S$265) to the committee organising President-elect Joe Biden's scaled-back inauguration celebration this month.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As we entered a new decade in 2020, Canada saw significant developments in labour and employment law, some of which related to COVID-19.  This Insight provides an overview of 14 key 2020 developments, with links to more detailed articles and commentary: Ontario Superior Court recognized a new invasion of privacy tort: “publicity which places the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye.”  The recognition by Ontario’s Super...

The Energy 202: New clean energy lobbyists line up sway Biden administration Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck Its a new year and a new president is about to take office. Right on cue, a new cohort of lobbying groups is setting up shop in Washington to influence the incoming administrations agenda for tackling climate change. At least two energy trade organizations — one focused on the power sector, the other on automobiles — have launched in recent weeks to make s...

Dec 29, 2020 Dec 29, 2020 Construction of a new training center for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Neshannock Township will benefit from a $1 million state grant, according to information from State Rep. Elder Vogels office. The project was one of four receiving a total of $6 million through the state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. Three other projects receiving the funds are in Beaver County. The Western Central Pennsylvania Electrician Joint Appr...

April 21, 2020  Last July, Ohio’s governor signed House Bill 6 (HB6) to provide FirstEnergy (now Energy Harbor), a large electric utility, with subsidies of nearly $150 million per year to keep its Perry and Davis-Besse nuclear power plants operating. Ohio is only the fifth US state to offer such subsidies; other states include New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Although the subsidies are justified by some as necessary for climate mitigation, in the latter four states, elect...

Blocked from developing more wind power in Ohio, renewable energy companies have set their sights on the sun. Nearly two dozen solar farms are in some form of development across the state, according to the Ohio Power Siting Board, the state agency that approves construction of new sources of electricity. Add it all up, and it amounts to about 4,000 megawatts of power — the equivalent of two or three traditional power plants and about a seventh of Ohios current total electricity production. R...