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When I was sports editor for the college newspaper, I wrote a column that was, I'm sure now a decade removed, far less clever than I thought it was at the time. But since I am 1) pressed for time and 2) devoid of original thought at the moment, I present to you, dear reader, a special reprisal of the Michael Harris Daily Weekly Monthly Occasional Grab Bag of Sports Hydropower Stuff.

UPDATE 2-North Dakota may let more oil wells be temporarily idled

WILLISTON, N.D., Sept 14 (Reuters) - North Dakota's oil regulators said on Monday they may allow more wells to be temporarily abandoned, a step that would permit producers to delay fracking beyond the typical one-year window and prevent even more crude from flooding onto global markets.

South Africa faces first power cuts in five weeks

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 14 (Reuters) - South Africa's Eskom said on Monday there would be rolling blackouts from 1900-2200 local time (1700-2000 GMT) due to a loss of generation capacity, the first time the utility has imposed power cuts since Aug. 8.

Dutch-German RMR product pipeline to close for Sept maintenance

LONDON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The pipeline that carries oil products such as diesel, jet fuel and gasoline between the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp refining hub and Germany has maintenance operations planned for September, traders said on Monday.

Michigan State University Wins DOE Grant for Five-Year Biofuel Study

Michigan State University (MSU) researchers recently won a $5 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to study how biofuel crops acquire nitrogen.

Russia's Lukoil says could sell treasury shares to raise funds

MOSCOW, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Lukoil, Russia's No.2 oil producer, may sell its treasury shares to raise money or distribute them among shareholders, Chief Executive Vagit Alekperov was quoted as saying on Monday.

UPDATE 1-Petrobras chairman to take leave, to focus on job as Vale CEO

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Murilo Ferreira will take a leave of absence as chairman of state-run oil firm Petrobras, turning his full attention to his job as chief executive of Vale SA as the mining giant grapples with a downturn in the sector.

Microturbines Fuel Growth of the Biomass Industry

From pig farms to breweries, Capstone’s microturbines are making full circle cogeneration an economically and environmentally friendly reality for a diversity of industries.

China's SEPCO set to win gas booster project for Saudi Aramco

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, Sept 14 (Reuters) - China's Shandong Electric Power Construction Corp (SEPCO) will likely win a contract to help expand the capacity of the main gas pipeline across Saudi Arabia, industry sources said.

California Climate Law Boosts Solar Power and Building Retrofits

California lawmakers on Friday passed a watered-down version of what state Senate President Kevin de Leon had billed as part of the “most far-reaching effort to fight climate change in the history of our nation.”

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