Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Hurricane Ike — the most destructive storm in the 2008 hurricane season — was not classified as a major hurricane by the yardstick forecasters have used for decades.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
In New Orleans, a dire warning to flee emptied the city before Hurricane Gustav in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to "hunker down" might have kept evacuation routes from clogging before Hurricane Ike struck.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
In New Orleans, a dire warning to flee emptied the city before Hurricane Gustav in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to "hunker down" might have kept evacuation routes from clogging before Hurricane Ike struck.
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
In Texas, GreenHunter Biofuels confirmed that it is back online and producing at the company’s 105 Mgy biodiesel plant in Houston. The plant had been idled by Hurricane Ike earlier this year. Management said that the plant has achieved 65 percent of full capacity just prior to the hurricane, but did not indicate a production [...]
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Back in early September, Hurricane Ike roared ashore on the Texas Gulf Coast as the third most destructive hurricane ever to strike the U.S. A biodiesel refinery in the Houston area that was part of the destruction (see my post from Sep. 29, 2008) has finally recovered and is back on line. GreenHunter Biofuels has [...]
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Hurricane Ike recovery efforts have become a casualty of the teetering economy. Several major fundraising campaigns were launched in the weeks after the storm, with organizers pledging to use privately raised money to fill gaps in federal funding and insurance payments.
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Houston Chronicle: Hurricane Ike's storm surge slammed into the picturesque Shoreacres bayfront in the predawn darkness, turning houses into breezeways as it knocked out walls on its relentless push inland. Today, exactly two months after Ike hit, the scene remains one of utter devastation. Chunks of the brick facade from one house are strewn across its driveway. A toilet lies upended on a front lawn....
Keeney PR (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
This is a longer version of the article published in PR Tactics in November 2008. My Houston-based clients and I stayed up all night on Friday, September 12th. They were experiencing their own private hell courtesy of Hurricane Ike – hour after hour of 110 mile per hour winds that made their homes groan and sucked windows out of their office buildings, torrential rain and flooding, all in an eerie...
ISIAH CAREY'S 'INSITE' (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
CLICK BELOW TO SEE THE VIDEO REPORT! While the storm system of Hurricane Ike has past many Houstonians are still feeling the effects two months later. Brenda Sharlow's home was slammed by the storm system. She was left with ten holes in her tile roof. But here's Sharlow's problem - she says she can't seem to get her insurance company to cover the cost of repairing all of the damage. Sharlow says American...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Algae demonstration plant in Colorado, Pacific Ethanol's quarterly loss, a peek at a quiet clean-tech energy investor, using biomass from Hurricane Ike instead of coal, Fisker expands in Michigan, the ethanol "blend wall," and
grgr stock (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Todays news from Globewire announces the shipment of 20,000 tons of Hurricane Ike wood to Sempra Energy’s Twin Oaks power plant located near Waco, Texas. This power plant is switching from coal to wood biomass to be greener. This is temporary. Our company GRGR is the subcontracted supplier. Green Energy Resources has multiple projects nationwide with the [...]
Environmental Protection Agency (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
(League City, Texas - Nov. 7, 2008) - The Unified Command has established household hazardous waste drop-off stations for residents of Jefferson and Orange County areas for homes affected by flooding as a result of Hurricane Ike
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
More than eight in 10 Harris County residents heeded local officials' advice to ride out Hurricane Ike at home, but only 56 percent said they would stay home if another hurricane threatened the area.
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
There is some actual good that will come out of the devastation of Hurricane Ike. This story from Greentech Media says Biofuels Power Corp. has announced plans to build a 4-megawatt power plant the will produce electricity from the woodchips and other debris from the storm: The Woodlands, Texas-based company, traded over the counter using the symbol [...]
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
State officials on Friday withdrew a request for federal money to charter a cruise ship for use as emergency housing in Orange County for Hurricane Ike storm victims.
