Guided by one of the most aggressive motion picture tax credit programs in the country, the state has wooed new film production into the state and steered the consistently increasing surge of the film industry, creating an economic impact on both local and national levels.
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Pre-Sal Petroleo would also run a new contract system that allows the state to implement production-sharing agreements that would direct more of the oil windfall to the state than to the oil companies whenever the price of oil goes up.
Here in Scotland large areas of forests are managed by the state for timber production, wildlife and amenity.
If it were fully exploited, the state's production of electricity from this renewable source would more than double.
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Oil prices spiked in 2006, when an oil spill in a BP-operated Alaskan field briefly threatened to cut off half of the state's production for months.
At its peak, hundreds of firms across the country were making something like two million bicycles a year, which was an astonishing number at the time given the primitive state of mass production.
"We spend a lot of money in the state bringing movie production here, post-production here, so obviously we would want to facilitate that, " said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who wants to expand the film and TV tax credit.
The state's oil production last year was the lowest since 1914.
In 1993, the government allowed private companies to mine for coal but only for captive use, as production from state-run companies was unable to meet domestic demand.
Besides bringing in over a billion dollars in annual revenue into the state with motion picture production, the film industry has sparked the economy in several areas by creating thousands of new jobs, new businesses, and inspiring the growth of new industries that are both directly and indirectly associated with film.
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While Saudi Arabia guards its oil production and reserves as state secrets, the nation has recently announced three long-awaited oilfields have begun production.
He simplified the state constitution and, by changing the way oil production was taxed, ensured a windfall for the state treasury in oil's boom years.
Nearly all of the country's electricity production comes from state-owned utility Eskom Holdings Ltd.
And Texas is a state with more wind energy production capacity than any other.
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WalkBoston now has over 60 maps for cities and towns around the state, with more in production.
Khosla is cochairing a California ballot measure to tax oil production in the state and use the proceeds to develop alternative energy sources.
In particular, state-level ethanol-production incentives and bans on certain gases by California and other states have spurred demand for more environmentally-friendly corn-based fuels.
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North Dakota pumped a record 113 million barrels of oil in 2010, and State officials estimate that daily production will reach 700, 000 barrels in four to seven years.
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On Thursday, we get weekly jobless claims, and then Friday follows with the Empire State Manufacturing Survey and industrial production numbers, as well as the preliminary consumer sentiment report for March.
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In 2005, the government passed a controversial hydrocarbons law that imposed significantly higher royalties and required foreign firms then operating under risk-sharing contracts to surrender all production to the state energy company in exchange for a predetermined service fee.
By growing chardonnay grapes as far south as unglamorous Santa Maria and dotting the state with winepresses to keep production close to the source, Jackson secured his ability to produce more than 3 million cases a year of high-quality wine.
U.S. economic data due for release Monday includes the Empire State manufacturing survey, and industrial production and capacity utilization.
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But Mr Singh has ceded some ground to those who still believe the state should own the means of production.
M. resident, helped push a law giving studios a 15% rebate on their direct production costs in the state, applicable to the salaries of electricians--or big-budget stars.
Earlier, Rosneft, another state-controlled oil firm, acquired the main production operation of Yukos, a private energy company that had been dismembered by Russia's state.
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Lucent Polymers then transformed the boom material into the physical state necessary for plastic die-mold production.
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And between 80 and 90 percent of their total production goes outside of the state of Illinois.
State and national mandates for renewable energy production are also popular items of discussion among the clean tech crowd.
On Monday, we get the industrial-production numbers and the Empire State Manufacturing Survey.
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