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<itunes:summary>NCPR provides locally-produced news stories from around the Adirondack and North Country regions of New York State, as well as Western Vermont, and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.</itunes:summary>
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<title>Women learn art of wood splitting at hands-on workshop</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21548/20130304/women-learn-art-of-wood-splitting-at-hands-on-workshop</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 4, 2013) Reporter Joanna Richards is a city girl. But since she moved to the North Country four years ago, she&apos;s been boning up on the traditions and culture of rural life. She had a chance recently for a bit of North Country skill building, in a workshop on wood splitting especially for women. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21548/20130304/women-learn-art-of-wood-splitting-at-hands-on-workshop">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Joanna Richards</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Reporter Joanna Richards is a city girl. But since she moved to the North Country four years ago, she&apos;s been boning up on the traditions and culture of rural life. She had a chance recently for a bit of North Country skill building, in a workshop on wood splitting especially for women. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21548/20130304/women-learn-art-of-wood-splitting-at-hands-on-workshop">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>photolead, outdoor recreation, winter, [loc:44.5530213 -74.9395061], environment, heat, energy, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Warm winter doesn&apos;t lower heating bills</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19367/20120224/warm-winter-doesn-apos-t-lower-heating-bills</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 24, 2012) Funding for the federal program that helps people pay heating costs was cut dramatically this winter. St. Lawrence County social services says more than one-fourth of households in the county get money through HEAP - the home energy assistance program. Last October, we visited with Linda Jobes and her 85-year old father Leslie Howard.  They live in separate houses on the same property in DeKalb.  At that time, Jobes and Howard were worried about the coming winter.  But it hasn’t been as cold as most people expected.Julie Grant went back to visit with them this month… [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19367/20120224/warm-winter-doesn-apos-t-lower-heating-bills">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Julie Grant</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Funding for the federal program that helps people pay heating costs was cut dramatically this winter. St. Lawrence County social services says more than one-fourth of households in the county get money through HEAP - the home energy assistance program. Last October, we visited with Linda Jobes and her 85-year old father Leslie Howard.  They live in separate houses on the same property in DeKalb.  At that time, Jobes and Howard were worried about the coming winter.  But it hasn’t been as cold as most people expected.Julie Grant went back to visit with them this month… [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19367/20120224/warm-winter-doesn-apos-t-lower-heating-bills">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>03:29</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, politics, economy, winter, energy, heat, [loc:41.9294736 -88.7503647],, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Wood dealers selling short cords?</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17235/20110301/wood-dealers-selling-short-cords</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 1, 2011) Record-setting snowfall and sub-zero temperatures in the Northeast have led to increased demand for firewood this heating season. There’s also been an uptick in complaints by consumers who say they’re getting less firewood than they pay for. As part of a collaboration with Northeast stations, WNPR’s Diane Orson reports.Northeast environmental reporting is made possible, in part, by a grant from United Technologies. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17235/20110301/wood-dealers-selling-short-cords">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: NCPR News</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Record-setting snowfall and sub-zero temperatures in the Northeast have led to increased demand for firewood this heating season. There’s also been an uptick in complaints by consumers who say they’re getting less firewood than they pay for. As part of a collaboration with Northeast stations, WNPR’s Diane Orson reports.Northeast environmental reporting is made possible, in part, by a grant from United Technologies. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17235/20110301/wood-dealers-selling-short-cords">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:14</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, economy, environment, consumer, energy, heating, wood, cord, logging, winter, heat, [loc:41.4139843 -73.3034505], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>DEC moves to regulate new, not existing, wood boilers</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16852/20101220/dec-moves-to-regulate-new-not-existing-wood-boilers</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 20, 2010) State environmental officials are softening their stance on a controversial plan to regulate outdoor wood boilers.  The Department of Environmental Conservation is setting aside rules on existing boilers.  Spokeswoman Lori Severino says the DEC will hold more stakeholder meetings with manufacturers, homeowners, environmental and agricultural groups on how to regulate furnaces people have already bought.  She says the agency has not decided whether it will hold a new round of public hearings.  Severino says the DEC received thousands of comments at hearings last summer, many in protest.&quot;Because of the amount of feedback that we got we limited the proposal,&quot; Severino says.  &quot;It addresses one portion of it, and then we’re going to move forward on establishing some guidelines at this point.&quot;Severino says the DEC will move ahead on regulating new boilers.  She says new rules would make the furnaces burn 90% cleaner, use cleaner fuel, and require an 18 foot stack height.  The rules also include leeway for farmers.&quot;There is a one thousand setback requirement from neighboring properties,&quot; says Severino, &quot;but that does not apply to agricultural operations.  So instead they would have a one hundred foot setback from neighboring homes, but not property lines so it gives farms a bit more flexibility.&quot;The proposed rules on new outdoor wood boilers will come before the state Environmental Review Board this week.The DEC’s shift hasn’t appeased the state’s largest farm lobbying organization.  In a press release, the New York Farm Bureau called it “a ploy”.  Farm Bureau president Dean Norton accused “radical elements” of the DEC of “shoving these regulations through” at the end of Governor David Paterson’s term.The Farm Bureau says the rules would make the furnaces too costly and restrict their use in the summertime, when some people use them to heat water.North Country lawmakers are wary, too.  Assemblywoman Addei Russell and Senator-elect Patty Ritchie both told the Watertown Daily Times they think the DEC is moving too fast. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16852/20101220/dec-moves-to-regulate-new-not-existing-wood-boilers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[State environmental officials are softening their stance on a controversial plan to regulate outdoor wood boilers.  The Department of Environmental Conservation is setting aside rules on existing boilers.  Spokeswoman Lori Severino says the DEC will hold more stakeholder meetings with manufacturers, homeowners, environmental and agricultural groups on how to regulate furnaces people have already bought.  She says the agency has not decided whether it will hold a new round of public hearings.  Severino says the DEC received thousands of comments at hearings last summer, many in protest.&quot;Because of the amount of feedback that we got we limited the proposal,&quot; Severino says.  &quot;It addresses one portion of it, and then we’re going to move forward on establishing some guidelines at this point.&quot;Severino says the DEC will move ahead on regulating new boilers.  She says new rules would make the furnaces burn 90% cleaner, use cleaner fuel, and require an 18 foot stack height.  The rules also include leeway for farmers.&quot;There is a one thousand setback requirement from neighboring properties,&quot; says Severino, &quot;but that does not apply to agricultural operations.  So instead they would have a one hundred foot setback from neighboring homes, but not property lines so it gives farms a bit more flexibility.&quot;The proposed rules on new outdoor wood boilers will come before the state Environmental Review Board this week.The DEC’s shift hasn’t appeased the state’s largest farm lobbying organization.  In a press release, the New York Farm Bureau called it “a ploy”.  Farm Bureau president Dean Norton accused “radical elements” of the DEC of “shoving these regulations through” at the end of Governor David Paterson’s term.The Farm Bureau says the rules would make the furnaces too costly and restrict their use in the summertime, when some people use them to heat water.North Country lawmakers are wary, too.  Assemblywoman Addei Russell and Senator-elect Patty Ritchie both told the Watertown Daily Times they think the DEC is moving too fast. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16852/20101220/dec-moves-to-regulate-new-not-existing-wood-boilers">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>02:10</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, adirondacks, stlv, tijf, agriculture, energy, farming, outdoor wood boilers, furnace, heat, tghl, chpv, environment, topstory, [loc:42.6525793 -73.7562317]</itunes:keywords>
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