The News Review:
- ABB Gets $52Mln rder For Power Pdts For Plant In India
- Proposed asphalt plant worries residents
- $9 million water plant renovation almost complete
- Baltimore Drivers to Test ‘Near-Enough Perfect’ Electric Fleet
- Loan sparks 1300 jobs at Smyrna Nissan plant
- Cabinet considering return of Kherson engineering plant to state …
ABB Gets $52Mln rder For Power Pdts For Plant In India
Wall Street Journal
(ABB) won orders worth $52 million to provide power products and solutions for a supercritical coal-fired power plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The contract was awarded by Tata Projects Ltd the engineering procurement and construction.
Proposed asphalt plant worries residents
Journal Times
at the Town Hall 32288 Bushnell Road. The Burlington Town Board could vote on any recommendation during its meeting immediately afterward. The town’s planning and engineering staff has recommended approval of the proposal. Residents want to stop construction of the plant. They say an asphalt plant would lower their property values and pollute the air they breathe. “I’ve sunk just about everything I have into that house” Anderson said in a phone interview while on his lunch break at Kunes Ford in Delavan. “If (the value) drops below the price I owe then I really have a problem.
$9 million water plant renovation almost complete
Craig Daily Press
That may all come to an end soon as City Engineer Bill Earley said the parts to repair the plant?s new pump systems are about six weeks from delivery. ?nce that happens we hope to be able to fully test all our equipment and be up and running? he said. The Craig City Council approved a roughly $8 million construction project at the plant a few years ago plus $1 million in design fees to Denver-based engineering firm Tetra Tech with the intent of doubling the city?s capacity for clean drinking water from 6 million gallons to 12 million gallons a day. fficials hope the project will net enough water output to carry Craig through the next 20 years. ne never can tell though Earley said. ?It mostly depends on growth and right now that?s kind of slowed down to a crawl? he said. It also depends on what new regulations the state and federal governments pass down for local communities Earley added.
Baltimore Drivers to Test ‘Near-Enough Perfect’ Electric Fleet
New York Times
The Detroit-based automaker along with Britain’s Smith Electric Vehicles plans to launch the “Transit Connect” commercial fleet van in the United States next year. Nissan will receive $1. 6 billion to make electric cars and battery packs at an expanded manufacturing plant in Smyrna Tenn. The Japanese automaker plans to begin selling electric cars in the United States and Japan next spring and begin mass-producing them globally in 2012 (. Nissan’s Tennessee plant would produce up to 150000 electric vehicles annually according to DE.
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Loan sparks 1300 jobs at Smyrna Nissan plant
The Tennessean
Department of Energy to develop innovative advanced vehicle technologies that will create thousands of green jobs while helping reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. 6 billion was designated for Nissan North America Inc. to retool its Smyrna manufacturing plant to produce zero-emissions vehicles and modern lithium-ion battery packs to power them. “This is an extremely volatile industry. By being the leader in producing zero-emissions vehicles in Smyrna and staying technologically advanced the anticipation is that this will bring strong opportunities for a strong future at the Smyrna plant” Nissan North America Vice President of Manufacturing Susan Brennan said. In addition to the breakthrough in automotive technology Nissan is expecting to add approximately 1300 new jobs once production is in full swing by 2012.
Cabinet considering return of Kherson engineering plant to state …
Kyiv Post
The Ukrainian cabinet is studying a possibility to return Kherson engineering plant Ltd. to state ownership Industry Minister Volodymyr Novinsky said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting. “The issue of returning the plant to state ownership was discussed at the meeting despite the saying that the best owner is a private owner in this case we have an example of absolutely inefficient work of the [company's] head” he said. “I want to say that instead of cheapening agricultural machinery and increasing its competitiveness the company’s head directs his efforts to show that the cabinet cannot settle the issues in the sector due to political motives as I understand as he today represents the opposition.