The News Review:
- Grangemouth strike: who’s fuelling who?
- Training centre for engineering units
- New plant should ease HCM City’s water shortage
- Moscow frees former atomic energy leader who’s under indictment…
Grangemouth strike: who’s fuelling who?
Times Online – Apr 27, 2008
The Rix garage in Kirkcaldy blamed a “misunderstanding” with its computer after diesel shot up to £1. With talks between plant operator Ineos and the Unite union floundering at midday on Thursday John Hutton the UK secretary for business enterprise and regulatory reform said he saw no need to enact emergency legislation. At the same time in the Scottish parliament Alex Salmond the first minister appealed for cool heads. But by 5pm the situation had changed and John Swinney the finance secretary admitted in a statement to MSPs that the strike posed a serious threat to the flow of North Sea oil. He confirmed that the BP Kinneil plant next to Grangemouth would not receive enough steam and power from its neighbour during the strike to work normally. Kinneil is one of the most important parts of the UK’s oil infrastructure separating the oil and gas that comes from 30 fields drained by the Forties pipeline system… If the dispute escalatedand Grangemouth were to shut down completely for weeks instead of days and the Kinneil plant and Forties pipeline close with it it would mean a national crisis. Everything depends on the duration and extent of the closure. “If the Forties pipeline has to shut down for much longer the situation will change from being a local one causing a fair bit of disruption to being a UK-wide crisis” according to Dr Clifford Jones reader in engineering at Aberdeen University. “If the pipeline shuts down that’s about 40% of the oil from the UK sector of the North Sea and simple contingency measures like bringing fuel up from England don’t work any more. “I think we would see a rise in the price of Brent crude of the kind seen recently when hurricanes threatened oil platforms off the southern coast of the United States. “The social and economic effects will be major a bit like the mid-70s when Opec was refusing to supply us with oil. We were just about on our knees then.
Training centre for engineering units
Hindu – Apr 27, 2008
representing nearly 2000 industrial engineering units in Ernakulam district has proposed the setting up of a general training centre and an oxygen plant as common facilities to suit the requirements of all engineering units in the State. The detailed project report was prepared with help of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat). Besides Friday Solutions a project consultancy based in Chennai that conducted a benchmark study of the engineering clusters in Kerala is also preparing project report said K. Jose Cluster Coordination chairman… Jose said the proposed training centre would have sophisticated machinery that will enable the cluster members to take up specialised jobs for Cochin Shipyard hydro-electric projects etc. The oxygen plant will help meet shortage of industrial gas supply. The capacity of the proposed unit will be 400 cylinders a day which will just be enough to meet the requirements in Ernakulam district said Mr.
New plant should ease HCM City’s water shortage
VietNamNet Bridge – Apr 27, 2008
The 216 billion VND (13. 5 million USD) water treatment plant and its 13 km-long pipeline system is part of the Kenh Dong Water Supply System project in Thuong Hamlet Tan Thong Hoi Commune Cu Chi District. The Kenh Dong Water Supply Joint-Stock Company provided the funds for the plant. Major components include a raw water intake pumping station a filter tank a 20000 cu… The 216 billion VND (13. 5 million USD) water treatment plant and its 13 km-long pipeline system is part of the Kenh Dong Water Supply System project in Thuong Hamlet Tan Thong Hoi Commune Cu Chi District. The Kenh Dong Water Supply Joint-Stock Company provided the funds for the plant. Major components include a raw water intake pumping station a filter tank a 20000 cu. m reinforced concrete reservoir and a water pumping station.
Moscow frees former atomic energy leader who’s under indictment…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 27, 2008
Adamov 67 and a partner Mark Kaushansky 56 of Monroeville diverted the money into two shell companies with accounts in Pittsburgh Delaware France and Monaco. Kaushansky a Ukrainian immigrant and former Westinghouse nuclear power plant engineer who looked up to Mr. Adamov as a “father figure” is scheduled to be released in October from federal prison in Morgantown W. where he’s serving 15 months for tax evasion. But in Moscow according to Russian news sources Mr… Kaushansky’s lawyer Fred Thieman now Buhl Foundation president that the men weren’t hiding nuclear-safety money for themselves but trying to protect it from Russian banks. Adamov said he funneled the money through Pennsylvania and Delaware companies he created so he could pay his scientists as head of NIKIET the Research and Design Institute for Power under contract to improve power plant safety. Had the money been paid directly to NIKIET scientists many of whom were living below the poverty level most of it would have disappeared into what Judge Cohill agreed was a “dysfunctional Russian banking system. ” No one trusted the banks it seems. Sergei Bocharov who left NIKIET to become head of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna said he kept $25000 in cash savings at his house instead of putting it in a Russian bank. When he wanted to transfer it to a Swiss bank he gave it to NIKIET which transferred it to Mr.