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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

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A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

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He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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US Solar Industry Rallies Behind 20% Generation Target for 2030

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The hosts of Solar Power International claimed the mantle of largest energy conference in North America, but the goal is to grow much larger. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S.

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The Outlaw Ocean Project Exposes China’s Use Of Forced Uyghur Labour To Supply UK Seafood Industry

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The investigation is shocking, no one should ever be treated in that way and work in those conditions ,” Sian Lea, business and human rights manager at London-based human rights nonprofit organisation Anti-Slavery International, told DeSmog. “To

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