The News Review:
- Palo Verde trains prospective plant operators keeps them sharp
- Ash spill deepens safety debate
- Malaysia Petronas Gas to call bids for new plant-report
- Mexican growers plant seeds for food revolution
- ‘¢ New plant will simplify recycling; no more sorting at home
- US-Based Caterpillar to Set Up 8 Billion Plant in TN
Palo Verde trains prospective plant operators keeps them sharp
Arizona Republic AZ
officials said they met that goal in November when all 19 of its recent trainees including Martinez and Bury passed Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing exams. The license allows them to take the controls at the plant 50 miles west of downtown Phoenix. “The exam is more stress than they’ve experienced in maybe their whole lives” said John Wood a department leader in the program. “They get to the point where they can handle the stress so they don’t freeze up. Palo Verde is under increased regulatory oversight which both utility officials and regulators partially blame on not keeping enough operators on staff. APS officials said they had been unprepared for the large number of employees who retired in recent years.
Ash spill deepens safety debate
The Tennessean TN
In this case the focus is on the ash which can hold even more lead arsenic and other potentially toxic substances than ever as new technology makes plant air emissions cleaner. Well water used by families has been polluted with arsenic boron lead and other potentially toxic substances and wetlands and wildlife have been tainted sometimes fatally.
Malaysia Petronas Gas to call bids for new plant-report
Reuters
substring(0CMSB_ID. KL) is expected to call bids for a 900 million ringgit ($258. 8 million) power plant project in Sabah on Borneo early next year the Business Times reported.
Mexican growers plant seeds for food revolution
TheChronicleHerald.ca Canada
But Borlaug’s scientific heirs say it won’t be so easy this time especially in Africa where food production is growing only two per cent a year while population expands by three per cent. Even here in Mexico in this vibrant wheat belt crisscrossed by tractors and crop dusters farmers are in a daily struggle. Climate change is blamed for more frequent droughts hotter temperatures and the spread of new plant diseases. The cost of fertilizers has tripled and their overuse has depleted soils spewed more greenhouse gas into the skies and polluted water with farm run-off. “It was a clearer agenda when Dr. Borlaug was here: The goal was to produce more food period” said Tom Payne of the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. “Now our agenda has kind of brought in a lot of different facets that make it a lot more difficult.
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‘¢ New plant will simplify recycling; no more sorting at home
MLive.com MI
They hope to open the facility in 2010 allowing residents countywide to dump all recyclable materials — from paper to glass and plastic — into bins without sorting. The facility would use automation and a limited number of employees working as “pickers” to sort the material before bailing it up for reuse. “The whole purpose behind a single-stream recycling plant is we believe it will increase recycling make it easier” said Board of Public Works member Nadine Klein. “You don’t have to sort anything nothing at all. The goal is to have the same type of roll-out bins for recycling as you have for garbage. The machines would do everything. LISTWhat’s in Kent County’s recycling bin Kent County’s recycling facility on Market Avenue SW processes 40 to 50 tons of material a day.
US-Based Caterpillar to Set Up 8 Billion Plant in TN
India Journal CA
The agreement was signed in the presence of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi by State Industry Secretary M F Farooqui on behalf of the state government and Caterpillar India President Kevin R Deenamen at the state Secretariat. Under the agreement the company would manufacture heavy engineering equipment used in construction and mining industry. The company would also expand its existing manufacturing plants at Thiruvallur and Hosur which has been providing jobs to 2400 people and indirect jobs to 7500 people. The new project in Chennai is expected to generate about 600 direct jobs and 1900 indirect employment.