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...But there is another layer of government support over which they have less sway: incentives offered by US states and localities....
...One tract in the latest federal lease sale in New Mexico notched up a whopping $68,000 an acre — when a high bid in the state (where much of the drilling land is federally-held) rarely exceeds $10,000 an...
...A six-bedroom period property with an annexe on two acres in the village of Great Horkesley, on sale at £1.85mn, has had 22 viewings, he says. Good schools are an added attraction....
...Having moved to Cumbria nine years ago, he knows these lands like the back of his hand, often favouring less trodden paths to avoid tourist crowds....
...While it owns the largest US coal-fired power plant it has retired or converted dozens more. Last year it got 22 per cent of its electricity from coal, down from 69 per cent in 2007....
...Because of the skewed apportionment of Electoral College vote numbers in favour of the thinly populated and rural states, a vote in California is worth less than a third of one cast in Wyoming....
...This biennial is less about buildings and more about the changes and challenges that the human occupation of the world has created — land rights, ecological issues, contested memories....
...Madonna’s purchase of Ashcombe House in Wiltshire in 2001, a Georgian house set in more than 1,000 acres, was a throwback to the days of pop grandeur....
...Situated in six acres of scrubby farmland at the end of a dirt track, the Makueni Fruit Processing Plant does not look particularly special....
...That is because it is situated in St George’s Hill, a long-established private estate of luxury homes in Weybridge, Surrey, the affluent county south-west of London....
...The proud boast is that there are more vineyards that have been certified organic in Napa than in any other county in California....
...His 80-acre estate in Greenwich, the largest in the town, sat on the market for more than two years. With an initial price tag of $65m, the home eventually sold for $21m....
...to own 14,700 acres of “agricultural and other land”....
...He holds a county permit to grow medicinal cannabis on the same farm and he is wading through paperwork for a full state licence, which will finally be issued in the new year....
...says Ann Pinca, an activist in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Williams has already stacked acres of pipe near the Atlantic Sunrise right of way, aiming to put it in service by late next year....
...Buying guide ● 63 per cent of buyers in Pitkin County in May 2015 were local or from adjacent counties, 33 per cent from other US states and just 3 per cent were international ● The market grew 16 per...
...Summer’s Crown: The Story of Cricket’s County Championship, by Stephen Chalke, Fairfield Books, RRP£20 A wonderfully researched, very well written and lovingly produced history of the county championship...
...It’s not hard (or expensive) to go to the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California, I tell friends — I’ve been back more than 60 times in the past 22 years....
...Fakir’s house was situated on a hectare of land. “It was a ruin, but over the course of years we restored it,” he says....
...“Hyundai is extremely popular here,” says Todd Strange, the mayor of the Alabama state capital, who estimates that the Hyundai factory has boosted the city’s economy by nearly $2bn since it was established...
...Scott Anderson, of the Environmental Defense Fund, who has worked on the issue for the NPC, says there are some counties in Texas where 70 per cent of the growth in water consumption is a result of oil and...
...Both Speckhardt and Silverman claim that the number of people who don’t believe in God in the US has more or less doubled over the past decade, with even faster growth among the young....
...Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State, by William Janeway, Cambridge University Press, RRP£22 Janeway, who built the technology investment team of Warburg Pincus...
...retriever out into the six acres of land surrounding his home, and takes in the idyllic surroundings....
...“The house was in a fairly bad state when we bought it. It was a bit more expensive to renovate than we originally envisaged,” Turner says....
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