News from Around the World

Wrong meter reading leads to thousand dollar utility bill (11 News Houston)

27/07/08

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Official advice on fuel hurts poor families (Guardian Unlimited)

27/07/08

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Natural gas increase up for debate (Tribune Chronicle)

27/07/08

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Sidon woman gets $7,724 power bill (The Greenwood Commonwealth)

27/07/08

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Marijuana grower gets three months (The Daily News)

26/07/08

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Millions face bill rise of £200 a year as energy giant EDF announces 22% price hike (Daily Mail: World News)

25/07/08

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Town hires worker for titleless job (Banner Graphic)

25/07/08

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NYC to go high-tech with wireless water meters (Crain's New York Business)

24/07/08

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Uganda: Uganda Power Losses Highest in (AllAfrica.com)

24/07/08

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'Five-star washer man' jailed for power theft (New Kerala)

23/07/08

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City To Spend $68M To Modernize Water Meters (The New York Sun)

23/07/08

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NYC going high-tech with wireless water meters (INO News)

23/07/08

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Colorado Water District Begins MOSAIC AMR Deployment to Solve Conservation and Billing Challenges (Centre Daily Times)

23/07/08

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NYC going high-tech with wireless water meters (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

23/07/08

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Minister accused of power theft (Khaleej Times)

23/07/08

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Budget approved by Waleska City Council (Cherokee Tribune)

23/07/08

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Letters: Meters will fuel poverty this winter (Guardian Unlimited)

22/07/08

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Telvent Completes the Automatic Electric Meter Installation in Sweden for Vattenfall Company (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

22/07/08

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NEC-Skyley platform meets Zigbee PRO specs (Electronic Engineering Times Asia)

22/07/08

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What's behind SSVEC's rate request? (Arizona Range News)

22/07/08

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In debt, utility-meter service Conserve Corp. files Chap. 7 (BizJournals)

21/07/08

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Badger Meter 2Q profits up 29 percent (The Business Journal of Milwaukee)

21/07/08

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Barbie When She's Weak (Forbes)

21/07/08

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Small-Cap Winners & Losers: American International Group (TheStreet.com)

21/07/08

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Letters: I fear the winter and hope for nothing (Guardian Unlimited)

21/07/08

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Badger Meter posts another record quarter (Small Business Times)

21/07/08

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Midlander asked to hold 2.5 hours to talk with Consumers (Midland Daily News)

19/07/08

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Police Confiscate Over 200 Pot Plants In Drug Bust

02/11/04

Hollywood police and federal agents say they made a major drug bust Wednesday after raiding a home and finding a hydroponics laboratory. Hollywood Pot Hydroponics Lab Bust Police say the two-bedroom house on Fletcher Court had over 200 marijuana plants inside.

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Tax fraud through power theft unearthed

28/10/04

The Directorate of Central Excise Intelligence (DCEI) has found that several industrial units in Palakkad showed low power consumption and lower levels of production in order to evade Central Excise duty and Sales Tax.

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