1 Power mostly restored to Outer Banks
HAVELOCK, N.C-- Officials say power has been restored to most of the coastal towns affected by winds and rain from Hurricane Earl. Â Â About 5,000 electric customers in Hyde County had awakened without power Friday morning. North Carolina Electric Cooperatives spokeswoman Kristie Aldridge says most had it back by the afternoon. Â Â Aldridge also says power was restored to Dare County residents who ... Source: 13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads
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2 Country-wide uniform power tariff: World Bank proposes special surcharge on power bills
ISLAMABAD (September 05 2010): The World Bank has suggested to the government to slap special surcharge on electricity bills in case the latter intends to maintain uniform power tariff throughout the country. Source: Business Recorder
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3 Georgia Power nuke fee higher on front end
Georgia Power nuke fee higher on front end Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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4 The power interns
In a large room on the second floor of the posh-looking Constitution Club, a stone's throw from Parliament, 15 just-out-of-college youngsters in their early twenties quietly work on their computers and laptops through the day, trying to get a first-hand sense of India's legislative and public policy procedures. Source: Express India
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5 China agricultural policy lender issues 133.63 bln USD loans to western regions
Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC), one of the country's policy lenders, said Friday it had issued loans of 909 billion yuan (133.63 billion U.S. dollars) to China's western regions since 2000. Source: People's Daily
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6 Power outage
A problem with an insulator near the Bolivar Post Office Friday afternoon left Empire Electric Co. customers in the immediate vicinity without power for about 10 minutes, according to Amy Bass, director of corporate communications. Source: Bolivar Herald-Free Press
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7 EU trade chief criticized for suggesting 'Jewish lobby' influence US policy
BRUSSELS: EU trade chief Karel De Gucht sparked a storm on Friday after referring to the power of the "Jewish lobby" in US policy and the difficulty of having "rational" discussions with Jews on the Middle East.The European Jewish Congress (EJC) demanded an apology and full retraction from De Gucht, whose comments followed outrage over a German central banker's statement Source: The Daily Star Lebanon
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8 Regulators set date to hear about power deal
CONCORD (AP) — New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Comission has scheduled a Sept. 29 prehearing conference on a request by the state’s largest utility to buy power from a wood-fired generating plant being proposed for Berlin. Public Service Company of New Hampshire says the proposed 70-megawatt plant would help the utility move toward its goal of getting 25 percent of its power from renewable ... Source: The Nashua Telegraph
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9 FDIC's New Power to Dissolve Companies Raises Concerns
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s new power to take over and liquidate nonbank companies whose failure would jeopardize the financial system is intended as a "third way" between bankruptcy and bailout. But the prospect of a new regime for dissolving megacompanies -- one with almost no judicial oversight and in which creditors' rights are few -- is sending shockwaves through the bankruptcy ... Source: Law.com
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10 Video: Montco commissioners OK petition to appeal ethics policy ruling
COURTHOUSE — Despite a stinging Commonwealth Court rebuke of Montgomery County’s ethics policy dictating rules to elected officials and their employees, commissioners James R. Matthews and Joseph M. Hoeffel passed a motion Wednesday calling on county row officers to enact their own ethics rules for their offices. Source: Main Line Times
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