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...That’s what ultimately is behind the barges announcement on Wednesday. And that is step in tow with the home secretary....
...“We now know that we can’t necessarily rely on Ukraine” for grain supplies from the Black Sea, said Kona Haque, head of research at ED&F Man, the agricultural trading house....
...Sunak defends asylum barges | The UK has leased two more floating barges to house asylum seekers, Rishi Sunak said yesterday, as he doubled down on his pledge to stop people entering Britain on small boats...
...They're hiring barges... So it comes back to this, doesn't it? It comes back to competence and grip. Can you actually... Well, it does....
...The only way you can do it is to buy with cash, and buy something nobody would touch with a barge pole.”...
...One of the better hostelries is the City Barge, a refurbished 14th-century pub between Chiswick and Kew bridges....
...My father once said he was really PO’ed at someone and I thought it over, and shouldn’t it technically be that he was P’edO? I need a grammar stickler right now....
...Ejiofor is unmarried and leads a peripatetic lifestyle, shuttling between film sets and homes in LA and London, as well as a Dutch barge moored in Canary Wharf....
...Indiana-based ACL is one of the US’ largest owner-operators of commercial barges, with some 2,300 barges and 120 tow boats working along 12,000 miles of the country’s inland waterways....
...“With the rail car wrecks and a barge sinking in the Mississippi river or just disruptions in the Mississippi river . . . they’re just not as secure methods of getting the crude, whereas pipelines are pretty...
...The move is part of a broader offshore wind strategy set out by the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, and energy secretary, Ed Davey, on Wednesday....
...The company has also now finished the oil spill containment system – a barge carrying a dome that could be lowered over a leaking well on the sea bed – which was not ready in 2012....
...The company’s Arctic exploration programme is reliant on passing tests by US regulators to check that equipment on its Challenger barge can contain an oil leak by processing oil and gas escaping from a well...
...With few undeveloped plots remaining along the river, some property developers have sought to cash in by converting old barges to up-market houseboats....
...still waiting to be allowed to penetrate oil-bearing rocks, with the summer drilling season fast running out, because one of those systems, the oil leak containment dome mounted on the Arctic Challenger barge...
...It has been allowed to start preliminary drilling but will not be allowed to penetrate oil-bearing rocks until the barge is ready and in position....
...That dome, mounted on the Arctic Challenger barge, had been undergoing final tests of seaworthiness demanded by the US Coast Guard, off the coast of Washington state, when it was damaged....
...It is mounted on a barge, the Arctic Challenger, which has not yet been passed as seaworthy by the US Coast Guard, but could be given its final tests over the next two days....
...It is mounted on a barge, the Arctic Challenger, which has been converted into an oil spill containment vessel and which is still in port in Washington state, undergoing tests for seaworthiness by the US...
...It will not be allowed to penetrate oil-bearing rocks until it has deployed the Arctic Challenger, a 300-foot barge converted to carry a containment system for catching oil in the event of a spill, which...
...had been securing all the necessary approvals until the final hurdle: the testing of a new system for catching any oil spilled in a well blowout and bringing it up to the Arctic Challenger, a 300-foot barge...
...Mr Salazar said the company would not be allowed to go any further until it had secured final approvals for the Arctic Challenger, the 300-foot barge converted to carry a containment system for catching...
...Early this year, it settled on the Arctic Challenger, a 300-foot barge built in 1976, to carry the system, operated by Superior Energy Services, a Houston-based oil services company....
...Con Ed was handing out ice and dry ice to help keep food cold....
...that it plans to drill, which in turn are waiting only for a demonstration of one last piece of spill response equipment: a containment system for capturing leaking oil underwater and separating it on a barge...
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