The News Review:
- Zoom Developers to set up $130 mn plant in Oman
- Agrium quiets fertilizer plant: Shutdown of mammoth facility proceedin…
- Vista isn’t crap but the ‘leccy is
Zoom Developers to set up $130 mn plant in Oman
Economic Times – Jun 1, 2008
The plant which will producealuminium for use in secondary industries will provide 750 jobs including 500to the Omanis said the Oman news agency. Sohar Industrial Port Company(SIPC) is responsible for operating and developing Sohar port as per apartnership between the Omani government and the Rotterdam Port of theNetherlands. According to theagreement Mumbai-based Zoom Developers will invest $130 million during the nexttwo years to establish a downstream aluminium manufacturing plant at Sohar Port. The agreement was signed byMaqbool bin Ali Sultan Minister of Commerce and Industry and Chairman of theBoard of SIPC and Ashok Sangolli COO of Zoom Developers a company pressrelease here said. Among otherfactors the strategic location of the Sohar Port is the chief reason that ledthe Zoom Developers to make a foray into it… Situated outside the Strait ofHormuz the port offers connectivity to the hinterland which will provideaccess to the facilities needed. Besides being aninternational port it also offers connectivity to the emerging markets of Indiaand Africa giving the plant logistic and economic advantage the release said. Zoom is a Mumbai-based privategroup with interests in energy engineering and real estate. getElementById(“storydiv”). substring(0storycontent.
Agrium quiets fertilizer plant: Shutdown of mammoth facility proceedin…
Kenai Peninsula Online – Jun 1, 2008
It was manufactured in September to fulfill a contract with the state. Four trucks a day with approximately 25 tons of urea are leaving the plant. All operations must be approved by the company’s environmental safety and mechanical engineering departments Wendt said. Sonnichsen who will be transferring to manage Agrium’s Carseland nitrogen operation outside Calgary Alberta Canada predicted that by the end of July the company “will have the majority of the chemicals out of here. The company does have an obligation to continue supplying utilities to Homer Electric Association to run its power turbine “for a few months” Sonnichsen said. The turbine runs off an Agrium natural gas feed. “Then we’ll be an inert environment” he said.
Vista isn’t crap but the ‘leccy is
Register – Jun 1, 2008
Very profitable I’m sure. I worked on Sizewell B back in the early 90s. It was a huge and hugely prestigious civil engineering project. The people who built it felt and feel today very proud to be able to say they worked on it. The tragedy we face now is that if we wanted to build anymore PWRs like Sizewell B they’d have to be built by foreign companies and foreign engineers. I suppose there’d be one or two jobs for the natives as they’d need people serving in the canteen and the toilets would need cleaning. Lazy GunThis is just another area of the British infrastructure that this Administration has dithered avoided discussing and pointedly ignored; the Government knows it will have to embrace nuclear power into the power generation map and that’s going to alienate some core votes… Why should any population be subjected to the whims of a few? Perhaps we’ll only learn when the markets make power a luxury good out of the reach of the poor the elderly and the socially disadvantaged – or has new Labour completely forgotten it’s heritage?Sir Christopher Hinton must be doing a triple twist with pike over all this nonsense. Pete James”And at the moment if you want it to be relatively pollution free then it’ll have to be nuclear. A nuclear plant can produce “relatively” cheap leccy for twenty to fifty years with “relatively” little pollution escaping as long as the plant is well maintained. It will stop producing leccy after fifty years max and will still release “relatively” little polution for as long as the plant is well maintained. Great except that someone will have to pay to maintain the plant even when it no longer produces leccy and they will have to keep paying to maintain the plant for fifty to one hundred thousand years. That is longer then human beings have been recognisably human. Still think they are a good idea?Paul SmithSteve Ballmer and Bill Gates this week.