Unshackled, entrepreneurs would find ways to team up with existing holders of rights of way, such as cable, gas and telephone companies, railroads and highways, to run power lines to new customers, e.g.

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The cause of the crash is still being investigated but is believed the balloon had been in the process of landing when a landing cable got caught around a gas tube and a fire erupted on board.

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The report found the amount of gas produced by generating electricity had dropped by 75% since the cable link with France, via Jersey, allowed energy imports from 2001.

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He made three more fortunes--in cable television (Vision Cable Communications), mobile telephony (Metro Mobile) and gas pipelines (Southern Union).

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Of course this means that in addition to the endless marketing mailings and calls we already get from the cable and telecom companies, we'll now have to listen to the gas man's pitch about broadband when he comes to read the meter.

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Meanwhile, the new oil and gas strategy aimed at securing thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of investment was unveiled by UK Business Secretary Vince Cable in Aberdeen, which is known as the oil capital of Europe.

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