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RALEIGH Former N.C. Rep. Drew Saunders gets to start lobbying six months after he leaves office instead of a year after stepping down thanks to a change in the law that he pushed through.
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a Democrat from Huntersville, and Striped market umbrella
resigned his House seat at the end of October in order to take a $110,000-a-year job with Electricities, and Striped market umbrella
a nonprofit umbrella group for municipal power companies in the state. The firm expects he will register as a lobbyist after the required six-month cooling off period between holding office and lobbying.
Saunders lost in the May Democratic primary to Rep.-elect Nick Mackey, and Striped market umbrella
so he was leaving office at the end of the year.
Regardless of when his term ended, and Striped market umbrella
he would have been required to take a yearlong break between legislating and lobbying under the state ethics law being debated in the House in 2006. That cooling off period was cut to six months thanks to a proposal by Saunders


40 Billion Barrels Oil Reserve Target Achievable Thursday, Nov 13, 2008
The Federal Governments target to raise Nigerias oil reserve to 40 billion barrels by 2010 is still achievable despite the myriad of challenges the nations oil and gas industry is facing in recent times, the National Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) has said.
NAPE President, Kingsley Ojoh, who expressed this optimism in Lagos at the weekend at a media briefing on the associations forthcoming 26th Annual International Conference scheduled for Abuja, said 'the decline of production would be arrested, while governments vision of building 40 billion barrels of oil reserves will be achieved with necessary logistics in place to enhance exploration activities in the nations unconventional plays.'
According to the president of the umbrella group of petroleum industry operators, increased exploration activities from similar unconventional plays have resulted in giant discovery fortunes for Brazil and Ghana.
His words: 'The 2010 set date was made about eight years ago. During this time, the country has developed a 25-billion barrels oil reserve base. But, now we have had additional 10 billion barrels finds from the deep waters


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