The News Review:
- Boeing’s Wichita Engineers Again Veto Contract ffer
- Wastewater plant needs new equipment
- Conservation groups:Fine FirstEnergy for killing fish at Bay Shore …
- Inglis reacts to proposed nuclear plant
- Funds likely on tap for bigger Pender water plant
Boeing’s Wichita Engineers Again Veto Contract ffer
CNNMoney.com
) DW JNES NEWSWIRES Engineers at Boeing Co. ‘s (BA) Wichita Kan. plant rejected the company’scontract offer for a second time but fell short of granting the authority tostrike to their negotiation team. Boeing weathered a two-month-long strike from its machinists division lastyear causing delays in its commercial-airline division that led to furthersetbacks in the release of its 787 Dreamliner airline. The company’s cost-cutting measures have already hit the Wichita defenseoperations. Boeing said in November that it would lay off about 800 people or27% of the jobs there as part of broader layoffs as the company looks to remaincompetitive amid an expected decrease in Pentagon spending. Boeing has sinceannounced plans to cut 10000 jobs companywide.
Wastewater plant needs new equipment
Clay Center Dispatch
The plant can get more room and control over how much sludge is produced by fixing a weir gate which has lost the ability to raise and lower wastes. Weir repairs would cost $27000. The plant can reduce oxygen by installing variable speed rotors which would cost about $20000. Engineering and design for both would cost $12500. Additional advantages of the variable control speed rotors are they reduce the amount of waste being produced and because they don’t run constantly they cost less to operate. Hessling says they experience quite a few power surges and are starting to blow breakers at the plant when the rotors get too hot. After touring the Lyons plant Hessling changed his proposal to repair the weir from a gate operated by two people to one that could be operated by one person.
Conservation groups:Fine FirstEnergy for killing fish at Bay Shore …
Press Publications Inc.
EPA studies show that 24000 walleye and 12000 of various size walleye and perch on average are killed every day. Yet FirstEnergy pays nothing and does little to nothing to reduce the kills? said Sandy Bihn director of the Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper Association. The Bay Shore power plant is a prodigious killing machine environmentalists say. According to a 2008 EPA briefing paper delivered to its director Chris Korleski Bay Shore ?probably impinges and entrains more organisms than all of the other power plants in hio combined. ?hio EPA asked an independent environmental engineering firm Tetra Tech Inc. to examine FirstEnergy?s studies and the technologies available to reduce the Bay Shore intake system?s impact on fish and determine which ones would work best at the plant. The analysis Tetra Tech estimates that the Bay Shore power plant:? kills more than 46 million fish each year when fish are slammed and caught (called impingement) against its cooling water intake system screens.
Inglis reacts to proposed nuclear plant
Chiefland Citizen
26 public testimony session in Inglis. “It will forever change our lives” said the first person to speak Inglis Commissioner Edward Michaels. For good or ill all aspects of the project’s impact on people and their environment were to be considered as part of the site certification application in sworn testimony for public record before Administrative Law Judge J. Lawrence Johnston from the Division of Administrative hearings in Tallahassee.
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Funds likely on tap for bigger Pender water plant
StarNewsnline.com
Michael Mack the county’s public utilities director said Tuesday that he was seeking stimulus funding or a state loan for $18. 5 million to pay for a larger-capacity plant. Brenan Buckley of CDM in Raleigh the project’s engineering consulting firm told commissioners Monday that a 2-million-gallon-a-day plant would be at capacity by late 2011 when the proposed system would begin operations. Projections show that by 2015 6 million gallons a day would be needed. A larger facility would delay the project’s start however since more stringent state requirements would need to be met. Tate said Tuesday that the board had known for awhile about capacity issues but that he’d rather not wait on a larger plant. “I think they need to be able to use water as soon as possible” he said of county residents.