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...There’s now an increasing realisation among local businesses and private organisations like Napa Firewise that the private sector must step up — from the utility companies burying cables underground, to...
...Neil Hyatt, professor of nuclear materials chemistry at Sheffield university, believes that, for intermediate and high level waste, this should happen 300 metres to a kilometre underground....
...It has served UU contractors with warning letters over some incidents....
...In Connecticut, some houses lacked running water because there was no power to pump it from underground wells, Mr Reeves said. He tried to put it in perspective....
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...As for the bicycles and scooters, one is left to wonder whether they would be so visible if every city had an efficient underground railway or, where warranted, a ferry system....
...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....
...PG&E’s failure partly results from an old practice of US utilities coming back to bite them — that of stringing most lines from poles rather than putting them underground, as in Europe....
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...For much of the past decade a 1,000 tonne, 150-metre long tunnelling machine has been snaking its way through a labyrinth of gas mains, river tributaries, building foundations, medieval graveyards, and utility...
...He added that the project was hitting the contractors “at the low end of the cost cycle”....
...By contrast, Metronet, a public-private partnership set up to run London’s underground train network, required a public bailout in 2008....
...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...
...A series of underground utility tunnels will house utilities like electrical wires and water pipes, and also provide pathways for freight-delivering robots....
...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....
...Latecomer advantage In an underground space close to Ho Chi Minh City’s historic opera house, city officials, construction contractors, civil engineers and on-the-ground workers gathered on October 31 to...
...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....
...Work only restarted around three months ago, for the underground tunnel.”...
...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....
...Data centre security is a growing business; global cyber security spending was set to top $82bn last year, according to Gartner Inc, while security contractors specialising in the physical protection of...
...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...
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