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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14:37 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>LED Streetlights, a Money-Saving Tool for America's Cities and Towns, a Feature of "Industry Today" on Industrialinfo.com</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=148906</link>
      <description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND--November 19, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--When Ann Arbor, Michigan, suffered a 60% electrical budget cut, the city turned to the NECA-IBEW team to keep citizens safe while driving or walking on city sidewalks. Using workers from the <a href=" http://www.ibew.org/" target="_blank">International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers</a> (IBEW), a contractor who is a member of the <a href=" http://www.necanet.org/" target="_blank">National Electrical Contractors Association</a> (NECA) retrofitted LED light panels inside the city's existing streetlights. Contractors and workers who are part of the NECA-IBEW team are uniquely situated to help--which is why the Ann Arbor retrofit was featured in a recent video on <a href=" http://electrictv.net/Video-Library/2009/Bang-for-your-Buck-(1).aspx" target="_blank">ElectricTV.net</a>.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14:37 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Refinery Capital and Maintenance Spending Projected to Rise in 2010, but Margins Will Remain Thin</title>
      <link>http://www.industrialinfo.com/showNews.jsp?newsitemID=152664</link>
      <description><![CDATA[BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA--November 19, 2009--U.S. oil refiners will increase spending on capital and maintenance projects in 2010, but large stocks of refined product mean continued thin operating margins for <a href=" http://www.industrialinfo.com/marketcoverage.jsp?pagerequest=marketcoverage06" target="_blank">refiners</a>, at least for the first half of 2010.  The U.S. already is an over-supplied market, and the supply-demand imbalance will be further aggravated with this year's addition of new refining capacity, which totals about 1.8 million barrels of oil per day.  Although the future of many refinery expansion projects is uncertain, most projects involving environmental compliance and unit upgrades will almost certainly move forward.  Spending on refinery turnarounds is expected to be significantly higher than in previous years.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14:37 -0600</pubDate>
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