Iran insists nuclear plant to start summer 2008
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- Iran insists nuclear plant to start summer 2008
- Plans for Corunna’s E85 plant stalled
- EPA launches investigation of closed Talmo recycling plant
- The Price of Neglect
- PS seeks to recover $21M costs
Iran insists nuclear plant to start summer 2008
Forbes – Dec 30, 2007
It was shelved in the first decade after the 1979 Islamic revolution but then resurrected in 1995 when Russia agreed to build and fuel the plant. Even then the deadline for the station’s launch was repeatedly put back. But now it appears the plant is finally on the verge of completion. Mottaki’s comments came after a second consignment of fuel for the plant arrived in Iran from Russia on Friday following the delivery of the first consignment on Dec 17. ‘The fuel delivery will be completed in eight stages’ added Mottaki. ‘Then the ground will be prepared for the injection of the fuel and the launching of the Bushehr nuclear plant by next summer at the latest according to the contract. This will be half the capacity of the plant’ he said.
Plans for Corunna’s E85 plant stalled
mlive.com – Dec 30, 2007
ther concerns including pending energy bills and rapidly changing technology probably figure into the planning equation Sawyer said. The company has made assurances that Corunna remains one of the top choices for phase two Lawson and Sawyer said. The Corunna plant would have produced about 116 million gallons of denatured fuel-grade ethanol from corn a year and created about 50 permanent jobs company officials have said. E85 holds purchase options on about 300 acres along Parmenter near M-71 and has received an air quality permit from the state Department of Environmental Quality. A lot of engineering work has been done on things such as a rail loop and wells that would provide more than a million gallons of groundwater a day for ethanol production officials said. The city held town hall meetings on the project and sponsored a bus trip to Lake dessa to tour an operating ethanol plants… The Corunna plant would have produced about 116 million gallons of denatured fuel-grade ethanol from corn a year and created about 50 permanent jobs company officials have said. E85 holds purchase options on about 300 acres along Parmenter near M-71 and has received an air quality permit from the state Department of Environmental Quality. A lot of engineering work has been done on things such as a rail loop and wells that would provide more than a million gallons of groundwater a day for ethanol production officials said. The city held town hall meetings on the project and sponsored a bus trip to Lake dessa to tour an operating ethanol plants.
EPA launches investigation of closed Talmo recycling plant
Access North Georgia – Dec 30, 2007
(See earlier story. Residents had complained for years about the smelly plant and claimed waste from the facility spilled into a nearby creek. The plant had been closed temporarily by the state Environmental Protection Division when a Sept. 5 fire broke out in a treatment pond and burned through the night. (See earlier story… (See earlier story. The file the EPA requested includes documents on the company’s alleged violations of state and local soil erosion ordinances as well as information on an almost three-year legal battle between Jackson County and Agri-Cycle said Leslie Hedrick engineering manager for the county Public Development Department. The residents of Talmo a tiny town near a railroad line about 60 miles northeast of Atlanta have been holding hearings and begging public officials to snuff out the plant for good since it opened. Earlier this year Jackson County commissioners filed a lawsuit – which is set to go to court in two months – that claims the plant is misusing a zoning permit. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division has taken action too arguing in court that the plant repeatedly dumps untreated waste into a nearby creek has expanded without a permit and overloaded fields and lagoons used to break down restaurant grease and poultry waste.
The Price of Neglect
Washington Post – Dec 30, 2007
The Corps work included hiring contractors to rebuild 12 schools and replace heating systems at 43 others. “We basically just gutted the whole heating plant wall to wall floor to ceiling” said Dan swald a Corps engineer who helped manage the work. Still heating problems persisted at some older schools because of aging pipes and failing radiators in classrooms. And in most cases the capital budget had no money for additional repairs. “That was the biggest complaint from principals: ‘We saw you there working for two or three months we got a new heating plant why is this classroom too cold?’ ” swald said. The Corps’s role ended last year after the agency had spent nearly $700 million and drawn criticism for cost overruns and delays.
PS seeks to recover $21M costs
Amarillo.com – Amarillo.com (subscription) – Dec 30, 2007
8 billion to build. It failed to get regulatory pre-approval. The Tulsa-based utility wants to recover its costs for pre-engineering design equipment reservation and planning for the plant. It suggests in its filing with the klahoma Corporation Commission that it can recover these costs without increasing customer rates. It wants to use proceeds from “emission allowances” to pay for these expenses. The utility did not immediately return calls for comment.
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