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...Web3 builds on Web 2.0, which was all about social media and user-driven content, taking it to the next level of either utility or hype, depending on your point of view. I can see both sides....
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...At a training centre by the River Itchen in Southampton, a group of employees from a utility contractor were undergoing a refresher pipe fitting course provided by Sert group to ensure they had the skills...
...Companies ranging from Royal Dutch Shell and Total to utilities and smaller independent groups are racing into the LNG export market, but planned capacity exceeds what is likely to be needed....
...This time the impact is broader and, in a worst-case scenario, could result in a slimmed down version of Dubai Inc....
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...He added that the project was hitting the contractors “at the low end of the cost cycle”....
...Some 18,500 people are employed by the NDA and its contractors around the UK, accounting for over a fifth of the total 87,500-strong nuclear workforce....
...Despite opposition from virtually every corner of the solar industry—utilities, large-scale commercial users, solar manufacturers, installers, contractors and others—the government is poised to impose a...
...But former bosses of collapsed private contractor Carillion will find the cheque is no longer in the post. They have been stripped of ongoing severance payments following a public outcry....
...In Tokyo, the Topix index shed 0.5 per cent, with the utilities segment dropping 2 per cent. In Sydney the S&P/ASX 200 index was down 0.3 per cent as utilities dropped 0.4 per cent....
...A government-commissioned report this week suggested extending some employment protections to such “dependent contractors”....
...Ultimately, the Silicon Valley monopolies should be broken up, as every other natural monopoly, from railroads to telephones to utilities, was before. It won’t happen soon....
...Although it has shed its big obligations to the contractors on its nuclear plants, there are so far few signs that the natural buyers — the big utilities such as Southern that are the customers of Westinghouse...
...The message focused on state utility PLN and its plan to add 35,000MW of capacity by 2019....
...In North Dakota, an attempt to put a two-year moratorium on new wind farms made some progress before being rejected by the state’s senate....
...Born on March 1 1931 on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Davis was schooled only until the age of 14....
...Unlike SolarCity, Sungevity does not carry out its own installation, instead using independent contractors, so it does not need to maintain a network of depots and a fleet of trucks....
...The fleet of five aircraft were modified by contractor and radar manufacturer Raytheon....
...A total of 145 jobs — 125 Air Products employees and 20 contractors — are dependent on what will happen to the unfinished plants....
...This month the White House halted construction of Dakota Access, an oil pipeline, on federal land....
...Broadband as a utility The UK government has outlined plans to make 10Mb/s broadband a service everyone in the UK must have by 2020....
...“The fundamental change that’s necessary in the behaviour of vast numbers of people — operators and contractors alike — didn’t have time to take root . . ....
...Apple’s lawyers argued that unlike the New York Telephone Company, it was not a public utility and did not “routinely” extract the data that law enforcement sought as part of its daily business....
...They may also have commitments with drilling contractors that mean there are limits on how quickly they can lay down rigs. If they have paid for the rigs already, they might as well use them....
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