TVA official says language in inspection report ‘misleading’
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- TVA official says language in inspection report ‘misleading’
- PaL lets EPC contract for petrochemical plant
- Coal-Ash Spill May Cost Utilities Billions in Rules
TVA official says language in inspection report ‘misleading’
Knoxville News Sentinel TN
“An engineer knows it’s not as bad as it sounds. Seeps and leaks are common in raised ponds Francis said. The walls of the pond are made of bottom ash drawn from the coal-fired plant sculpted to hold back the fly ash sludge and landscaped to prevent erosion. Fly ash is one of the waste products from coal combustion and contains arsenic lead barium thallium and other substances that can cause health problems including cancer liver damage and neurological disorders. Francis said engineers addressed the leaks as they were found and continually monitored the site. “The fact that they did the improvements isn’t an indication there’s a new problem” Francis said. Another document a 2003 status report on possible improvements to the pond following a leak also contains misleading language Francis said.
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PaL lets EPC contract for petrochemical plant
il & Gas Journal TX
of Seoul and Linde AG of Germany for the engineering procurement construction and commissioning of a naphtha and gas dual-feed ethylene cracker and associated units at the complex. The system will be the largest at the complex. The plant will have capacity to produce 1. It is scheduled for completion at the end of 2012. PaL is a joint venture of il & Natural Gas Corp.
Coal-Ash Spill May Cost Utilities Billions in Rules
Bloomberg
power companies may facebillions of dollars a year in new costs after last week?s coal-sludge spill in east Tennessee if the accident results inregulating their wastes as toxic. The accident that unleashed a billion-gallon outpouringfrom a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant on Dec. 22 mayrevive efforts in Washington to tighten rules on so-called flyash that?s laden with heavy metals and other waste from coal-fired generators. The proposals stalled during the eight yearsof President.
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