Marathon Begins Heavy Oil Refinery Upgrade Project
Michigan’s only gasoline refinery, Marathon Oil in southwest Detroit, received final permission Friday to begin a $1.9-billion expansion of its plant, which will create 800 construction jobs and more than 100 permanent jobs and, possibly, give some gas price relief in 2011 to drivers in southeast Michigan.
Marathon officials moved […]

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Solar Shingles For Your Roof
Dow and Global Solar Energy have teamed up to take on the Department of Energy’s “Solar America Initiative (SAI)” to create building-integrated solar. The purpose of the SAI is basically to create an incentive for the development of cheap, simple building-integrated photovoltaic systems. Dow Building Solutions wants to take Global Solar […]

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This blog will be about the ramblings of a union electrician. I’m 42 years old and have been a member of the IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), for over twenty years.
For those who are not familiar with union electricians, the IBEW and UAW are two totally different games. Unlike the UAW, […]

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