Utilities & Energy

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Inc. August 2007 Howard & Stone	Silicon Valley's Dark Days Frequent blackouts have disrupted business in Silicon Valley.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 David Lee Smith	Canada Clobbers Baker Hughes Oil field service company Baker Hughes watches its profits and its stock price drop on Canadian softness.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 James Mehring	Come Fall, Relief At The Pump The expectation of lower gas prices and stronger consumer spending assumes no more major refinery problems and a repeat of last year's mild hurricane season.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2007 Toby Shute	Precise Pain at Precision Drilling Weak Canadian gas demand sucks margins dry at Precision Drilling Trust, the largest contract driller in Canada. Overall drilling activity in Canada is down 50%.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2007 David Lee Smith	Diamond Offshore Picks the Wrong Day Despite strong results, the falling market dragged driller Diamond Offshore out to sea.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2007 Toby Shute	Meet the International Nabors The Canadian contract drilling market stinks, the U.S. lower 48 is none too great, either, but the overseas markets are looking brighter and brighter for contract drillers like Nabors.
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Carl Hoffman	High-Tech Mining Makes Coal King of Fossil Fuels, But Is It Clean? The abundance of coal and new mining technology will make this the fuel of choice for power plants for years to come.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Overdoing ExxonMobil's Shortfall ExxonMobil missed analysts' expectations slightly in its quarterly report. Is it reasonable to forecast to the penny the results of a company of this magnitude, one whose operations are complex and technically challenging?
The Motley Fool July 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	ConocoPhillips Hammered by Hugo In an otherwise sound quarter, standing up to Hugo Chavez cost Conoco $4.5 billion. It's the sort of thing that was bound to happen when oil and gas are found beneath the lands overseen by unstable governments.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 John Boyd	UPDATE: More Problems at Quake-hit Nuclear Plant Ten days after a deadly earthquake damaged the world's most powerful nuclear complex, the list of incidents and shut downs has risen to 63. The Japanese government is receiving strong criticism from academic experts on design flaws.
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