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...In Goose Creek, South Carolina, Nexans has revamped its factory to help supply the growing demand for high-voltage cables for offshore wind farms in the US, one part of wider investment plans....
...According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, cobalt, copper and arsenic were released into neighbouring watersheds....
...With the moon high in the sky, I lay awake reading Tanizaki in bed, looking out through a mesh screen towards the riverine creek....
...Mike Whitty, director of the Oregon Park Managers Association, is a former lawyer who has lived in, owned and managed parks locally....
...“You have very few people you can count on to help you,” Ms Hazlett, who founded a local homeowners’ association, explained. “You can’t really build up a base to do things.”...
...The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), a US non-profit organisation based in Arizona, established its Dark Sky Places programme in 2001....
...Individual homeowners are prohibited from doing this. Detroit needs homeowners who have an interest in the city’s recovery, advocates say....
...A working group set up by the Investment Association, an industry body, recently concluded executive pay was “not fit for purpose”....
...For design aficionados in Los Angeles, the inspiration that they find in the city is best described by a tumble of images and associations: “The city and its reputation — whether the film industry, iconic...
...The psychological effect on the homeowner is naturally significant,” says de Rijke. As for fire risk, he throws cold water on such concerns....
...(Financial Times) Bank of America is in talks to pay at least $12bn in cash and homeowner relief to end a long-running civil investigation by the Department of Justice alleging that it mis-sold mortgage-backed...
...“These are hybrid panels – PV [photovoltaic] and thermal – that generate electricity and capture heat energy in copper pipes filled with a water-glycol [antifreeze] mix.”...
...It provides bicycles (pick up a picnic lunch at the Oakville Grocery and peddle out among the vineyards along Dry Creek)....
...Gordon Talbot of Ian Ritchie Architects in London clad a Glaswegian housing association building in copper because “the wet weather gives it a rich green colour”, while Spaniard Jose Luis León at Bernalte...
...But the Mortgage Bankers Association was careful to say that this was largely fuelled by existing homeowners refinancing rather than new buyers entering the market....
...Mr Witte says vacancies left in the wake of foreclosures have increased crime, including the theft of copper pipes in homes that have been boarded up....
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