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What Is Happening With Gold & Silver Is Truly Remarkable

What is happening with gold and silver is truly remarkable. A Golden Year For Gold: Central Banks Continue Stockpiling May 29 (King World News) – Gerald Celente:  Gold’s price has rocketed up 33 percent since 2023 began, recently topping $2,450 an ounce last week. The surge in demand has not come from individual retail investors; gold-focused exchange-traded funds have seen net outflows of investment over the past three years. The big

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Great Panther Board Completes Review of Director Election Status

[PR Newswire] – The Board also considered Mr. Mason’s outside board and public company commitments, noting that Mr. Mason has stepped down from one public company board, and the remainder of the boards he sits on are junior TSX Venture Exchange companies which generally require less time commitment of their directors. The Board determined, based on these factors and Mr. Mason’s demonstrated past commitment to the Company, that Mr. Mason

Hecla Declares Preferred Dividend

[Business Wire] – Hecla Mining Company today announced its Board of Directors has elected to declare the regular quarterly dividend of $0.875 per share on the outstanding Series B Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, on a total of 157,816 shares outstanding.

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GE launches energy efficiency subsidiary

General Electric has reshuffled several energy management and research operations into a new subsidiary called “Current” aimed at new energy technologies, the company announced Wednesday. The new unit, which integrates lighting, solar, energy storage and electrical businesses, will work with clients to analyze energy use and provide suggestions on boosting efficiency. GE listed several large companies that have signed on with Current, including Walgreen, JPMorgan Chase, Simon Property Group and

GE combines technologies into energy efficiency company

(Reuters) – General Electric Co said on Wednesday it had started a company to focus on energy efficiency to help corporate and other customers lower their energy bills and better manage power distribution. The new company, called Current, will integrate GE’s LED, solar, energy storage and electric vehicle businesses with GE’s growing data and analytics platform. The company, which will be run by Maryrose Sylvester, who has been president of

South Africa seen green energy model for the continent

By Peroshni Govender CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Africa should learn from South Africa’s renewable energy drive, which has led to a sharp drop in green power prices thanks to benign regulation and infrastructure investment, industry players said on Tuesday. Four years since President Jacob Zuma’s government launched its renewable energy plan, it has fed over 1,000 MW of power into its strained system, which regularly plunges millions of homes into

CHORUS Clean Energy flat in Frankfurt debut

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Shares in German wind and solar park operator CHORUS Clean Energy opened flat in their stock market debut on Wednesday. CHORUS started trading at the offer price of 9.75 euros a share, which had been set at the low end of a 9.75-12.50 euro range in the 119 million euro ($133.71 million) deal, including an over allotment option. Wind park operators such as CHORUS and larger peer

U.S. Volkswagen hearing will have implications for industry, EPA

Volkswagen’s top U.S. executive on Thursday will field questions from U.S. lawmakers on how the automaker managed to evade pollution rules, kicking off a congressional probe into the scandal and whether other automakers might be implicated. Any issue with EPA’s operations could lead Congress to request independent government inquiries of the agency by the watchdog Government Accountability Office and the EPA Inspector General, the aides said.

U.S. court orders EPA to rewrite ship ballast water dumping rules

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court in New York ordered the government to rewrite its rules regulating the discharge of ballast water by ships, in a victory for environmental groups that said the rules were too lenient and threatened the nation’s waterways. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday said the Environmental Protection Agency acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” when it decided in 2013

Nuclear power plants warned on cyber security

Operators of nuclear power plants worldwide are “struggling” to adapt to the increasing and potentially dangerous threat of cyber attacks, a report warned Monday. The nuclear industry “is beginning -– but struggling -– to come to grips with this new, insidious threat,” the Chatham House think-tank in London said in a study based on 18 months of investigation. In addition there is a “pervading myth” that nuclear power plants are