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Greetings, thanks for investing, and please brace yourself for some very bad news.
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Fear and anger follow the path of Joe Manchin’s Mountain Valley Pipeline

After years of protests and lawsuits, the natural gas pipeline is almost finished. For local residents in West Virginia and Virginia, this is how the project will affect daily life in ways large and small.
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BC Hydro apologizes for $128-million Site C dam data error

Undisclosed employees quietly handed out $558 million in direct-award contracts, including $92 million to SNC Lavalin, new information shows.

How California’s bullet train went off the rails

How California’s bullet train went off the rails

America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
Trans Mountain blames massive spike in project cost

Trans Mountain blames massive spike in project cost on natural disasters, debt costs — and frogs

The projected cost for twinning the TransMountain pipeline has nearly tripled because of natural disasters, environmental protection measures and rising debt payments, according to new documents from the government-owned pipeline corporation.
Plant Vogtle hits new delays; costs surge near $30B
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Plant Vogtle hits new delays; costs surge near $30B

The move highlights the nuclear industry's chief troubles with building large, baseload reactors: safety and cost
dubious track record of ‘new’ nuclear technology
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Kerry Drake: The dubious track record of ‘new’ nuclear technology

Will safety and economic problems that shut down similar reactors, Drake wonders, follow the industry to Wyoming?
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