The News Review:
- World debates Browns Ferry.
- Revisiting ‘toilet to tap’
- Tough decisions lie ahead: They can follow jobs to Richmond or give…
- Plants’ Cleanup May Create Side-Effect
- … Gets Contract with Force Protection for Engineering and…
World debates Browns Ferry.
Free with registration – Decatur Daily – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 26, 2007
Nuclear power has created a schism among environmentalists. n the one hand the world has yet to find a satisfactory solution for disposing of nuclear waste and the risk of a catastrophic failure is alarming. n the other hand an operating nuclear plant creates essentially none of the greenhouse gases that most experts believe are contributing to climate change. The shutdown dropped Browns Ferry into the middle of the debate. What use is nuclear power if plants become inoperable as global temperatures rise? “I think both sides of the issue tend to overstate their case”.
Revisiting ‘toilet to tap’
Los Angeles Times – Aug 26, 2007
It worked this way: Sewage was treated at the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys and then pumped to spreading fields near Hansen Dam where over five years it would filter through sandy soil and gravel into an underground reservoir. But what should have been an engineering triumph soon became a PR disaster. For five years after its approval the reclamation project was largely forgotten. Then came the official DWP announcement of its completion in 2000 just before an open mayoral contest in 2001 that included Valley secession on the ballot. The water agency could not have chosen a more inopportune moment. The new pipeline providing enough treated water for 120000 L… “We started telling people from the start that we’re purifying sewage water” said Ron Wildermuth district communications director for the range County Water District. The district also mounted a substantial public education campaign that should become a model for the DWP’s plan to relaunch its own ill-publicized recycling program. By November range County’s water reclamation plant daily will supply up to 500000 people with 70 million gallons of treated water. Every day the outflow of L. ‘s treated wastewater — about 400 million-plus gallons — amounts to the state’s fifth-largest river running into the Pacific cean. In these dry times it makes perfect sense to stop throwing it away.
Tough decisions lie ahead: They can follow jobs to Richmond or give…
Free with registration – Richmond Times Dispatch – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 26, 2007
26–Dee Ellison has worked at Philip Morris USA’s cigarette plant in Concord N. Now like many of the plant’s 2400 employees she’s weighing her… Now like many of the plant’s 2400 employees she’s weighing her options. The Henrico County-based company’s decision to close the enormous factory northeast of Charlotte by 2010 and move its operations to South Richmond means that in the coming months Ellison will face a tough choice: Relocate to the Richmond area and keep her managerial job in maintenance and engineering with the nation’s top cigarette company or leave Philip Morris and stay in the community where she has lived most of her life. There are plenty of reasons to stay.
Plants’ Cleanup May Create Side-Effect
Washington Post – Aug 26, 2007
It can’t be used in cement for example because the interaction of the chemicals may keep the concrete from hardening. That ash has to go somewhere _ so it usually ends up in landfills along with the rest of the unusable waste. “You’re replacing an air problem with a land problem _ a disposal problem” said Bruce Dockter a research engineer with the Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota. Coal ash naturally contains arsenic and mercury and if the elements leach into groundwater they can contaminate drinking supplies. The EPA says ash disposed of in landfills could pose significant risks when mismanaged and there are gaps in state regulation. And the chemicals added to clean up emissions _ such as ammonia lime and calcium hydroxide _ make the ash worse environmental groups say because they take toxins such as mercury out of the air but leave higher levels of it in the ash… But the EPA is pushing power companies to cut emissions of the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides which add to smog and acid rain and contribute to thousands of premature deaths asthma and other respiratory ailments. A large portion of those emissions come from coal plants the EPA says. “If you live near a power plant you want the cleanest air possible” said Dave Goss executive director of the American Coal Ash Association. “If in exchange for clean air they have to dispose of material _ that’s the challenge. The only option may be putting it in a landfill. “It’s not clear how many plants already using or will use the new technology or how much ash may be affected but the technique is becoming widespread as companies work to comply with federal guidelines Goss said. The issue was raised as the EPA developed air emissions rules but the power sector has found ways to minimize the impact said EPA spokesman John Millett who said the agency doesn’t believe the increased injection of the chemicals into ash will cause a significant drop-off in ash recycling.
… Gets Contract with Force Protection for Engineering and…
Free with registration – Wireless News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 26, 2007
com Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide announced that its Tecstar Automotive Group was awarded a major contract by Force Protection Inc. of Ladson South Carolina to provide engineering design and production support for its Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Cheetah vehicle series. Force Protection recently. CPYRIGHT 2007 M2 Communications Ltd.