Tag Archives: January 2015

By Charlie Bursey Now that winter is approaching, more and more companies are finding themselves getting calls from customers that were told in the spring that a new boiler or furnace was needed before winter. I think that most readers will agree that nothing changes—customers always wait to do in December what they could have done from May to October. ...

By John Vastyan It’s not often that you’ll find more than two oil-fired boilers serving the same hydronic system.  With a little creativity and a lot of technical aptitude, professionals at Petro Home Heating & Air Conditioning were able to provide a unique commercial solution in rural Rhode Island. This staged-fire oil installation recently proved its worth at the Brothers of ...

Whether you are involved in the natural gas liquids sector, or are compassionately adverse to the efforts of that sector, one thing is clear—they have taken a pounding in the media, specifically over extraction methods and waste management.   They are, however, not lying down. Consider activity on the water, methane emissions and carbon fronts. Waterless Fracking I would venture ...

By Keith Reid One truism is that government tends to grind to a halt between March and November of any election year. Campaigning becomes the primary job during that time for those officials up for reelection. And, by and large, any legislation introduced by either party is not serious legislation, but an exercise in election marketing. At the government agency ...