2009 could prove to be the year of geothermal in the U.S. The number of new geothermal projects in the country has risen 25 percent since last August alone, according to report out this week from the Geothermal Energy Association, an industry trade group. But what’s behind the boom? Geothermal...

From a CBC story in which, among other things, Danny Williams brushes off the NAFTA issue in the Abitibi repo job: The Newfoundland and Labrador's expropriation does not include the mill itself, although the government will take over a hydroelectric power plant at Star Lake, which sells power to the...