The News Review:
- Gas leak sparks blast fire in Pakistan nuclear plant; 2 dead
- L&T bags four orders valued at Rs 1687 crore
- Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
- DJ Power Partners Announces Wyoming Power Plant Projects
- ut of Thin Air
Gas leak sparks blast fire in Pakistan nuclear plant; 2 dead
International Herald Tribune – Apr 8, 2008
Two workers were killed. The Khushab heavy water plant was shut down while undergoing annual maintenance at the time the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission said. The commission evacuated the plant but assured the public that there was no risk of exposure outside the sprawling facility southeast of the capital Islamabad. The “situation was immediately brought under control and two workers lost their lives while controlling the incident” the commission said. It said the leaking gas was burned off by plant equipment and that the cause was under investigation. The government claims Khushab produces electricity… ” Pakistan which carried out nuclear tests in 1998 to match those by archrival India has a fairly safe nuclear safety record. But some minor incidents have occurred in recent years. In 2003 one laboratory worker was killed and another man injured in an explosion in a liquid nitrogen tank at the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences near Islamabad. ___ Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad in Lahore and Sadaqat Jan and Zarar Khan in Islamabad contributed to this report.
L&T bags four orders valued at Rs 1687 crore
Economic Times – Apr 8, 2008
The orders are for water supply projects sinterplant cold roll mill and a coal handlingplant. L&T has secured an EPC contractworth Rs 635 crore from the Public Health Engineering Department Rajasthan fordesign supply build and commissioning of Barmer Water SupplyProject. The scope of work involves laying ofpipelines of various diameter in mild steel extending to 220 km design andconstruction of 172MLD water treatment plant raw water reservoirs includingsupply and installation of pumping machinery electrical instrumentation andautomation control systems. The project will be completed in 18 months. In another development L&T-ECCin consortium with utotec GmbH has bagged Rs 555 crore sinter plant order fromBhushan Steel… The orders are for water supply projects sinterplant cold roll mill and a coal handlingplant. L&T has secured an EPC contractworth Rs 635 crore from the Public Health Engineering Department Rajasthan fordesign supply build and commissioning of Barmer Water SupplyProject. The scope of work involves laying ofpipelines of various diameter in mild steel extending to 220 km design andconstruction of 172MLD water treatment plant raw water reservoirs includingsupply and installation of pumping machinery electrical instrumentation andautomation control systems. The project will be completed in 18 months. In another development L&T-ECCin consortium with utotec GmbH has bagged Rs 555 crore sinter plant order fromBhushan Steel. The project is located at Meramandali rissa and will becommissioned in 30 months.
Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
Bloomberg – Apr 8, 2008
ALL Fuels & Energy Company is a development-stage ethanol companyorganized to operate as an ethanol producer focusing primarily on theproduction and sale of ethanol and its co-products. To date AFSE has:obtained $2. 3 million in private equity funding; purchased 150 acreson which to build its proposed ethanol production facility inManchester Iowa; signed a five-plant engineering and designagreement; engaged Natural Resources Group to handle water-relatedenvironmental matters relating to the proposed Manchester ethanolproduction facility; engaged Yaggy-Colby to handle air-relatedenvironmental matters relating to the proposed Manchester ethanolproduction facility; and investigated and become involved in thepotential acquisition of one or more existing ethanol productionfacilities. Forward-Looking Statements Certain matters discussed in this press release are"forward-looking statements. " These forward-looking statements cangenerally be identified as such because the context of the statementwill include words such as "expects" "should" "believes""anticipates" or words of similar import. Similarly statements thatdescribe AFSE's future plans objectives or goals are alsoforward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements aresubject to certain risks and uncertainties including the ability ofAFSE to obtain needed financing as well as the financial performanceof AFSE which could cause actual results to differ materially fromthose anticipated.
DJ Power Partners Announces Wyoming Power Plant Projects
Earthtimes – Apr 8, 2008
Headquartered in maha Neb. the employee-owned company operates through a network of subsidiaries in the United States and Canada. Kiewit offers construction and engineering services in a variety of sectors including transportation buildings water and power underground facilities industrial oil and gas facilities mining and offshore facilities. Kiewit’s workforce includes approximately 6000 salaried and hourly staff along with more than 16000 craft workers.
ut of Thin Air
Science News – Apr 8, 2008
Gunnera (bottom right) recruit some cyanobacteria to fix nitrogen in stem pockets. Cahill iStockphotoThe most celebrated microbe-plant arrangements arise between bacteria and the legumes. Each plant recruits its labor force anew and bacteria enter tiny root hairs that end up bulging into nitrogen-factory nodules that look like faintly pink peas. The pink comes from botanical hemoglobin cousin to the oxygen-carrying molecules in mammal blood. “This great explosion” is how John Howieson of Murdoch University in Australia describes the abundance of new discoveries of nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in legume nodules in recent years. Biologists knew that lots of microorganisms turned up inside the nodules but had no good way to separate the fixers from the slackers… The finding supports a notion that plants using nitrogen-fixing nodules evolved the powers by borrowing components of the ancient widespread system for forming partnerships with fungi. Lunch costsFinding the nitrogen-fixer genes and conferring the ability to fix nitrogen on non-bean crops seems “very likely in the long term” says Bogusz. Now might be a good time for a major push toward re-engineering crops says Eric Triplett of the University of Florida in Gainesville. Early efforts in the 1970s didn’t get far but didn’t have a lot of sustained funding or the tools available today he says. Last year he made a presentation to the National Research Council on the prospects for such a feat. Triplett rejects the notion of trying to move the full legume ballet-recruiting the right partner and growing nodules for it—into a radically different species like corn. That would take a suite of specialized plant genes that need to be tuned to particular bacterial partners.