The cease and desist order (CDO) issued by Governor Roel Degamo in behalf of the provincial government of Negros Oriental against Sino-Italy Construction Philippines, Inc. to refrain from conducting dredging operations in Tanjay City remains in effect. Atty. Richard Enojo, concurrent provincial admi
Queensland Resources Council Chief Executive Michael Roche today released a checklist of coordinated activism aimed at shutting down Queensland’s export coal and gas industries. “Two years after the strategy document Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom was leaked to the media, it is valuable to
Four businesses have been awarded over £4million to spur on innovation in lowering the costs of generating offshore wind energy, UK’s Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker announced today. The grants have been awarded to 2-B Energy, High Voltage Partial Discharge Ltd, SgurrControl Ltd and O
Four businesses have been awarded over £4million to spur on innovation in lowering the costs of generating offshore wind energy, UK’s Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker announced today. The grants have been awarded to 2-B Energy, High Voltage Partial Discharge Ltd, SgurrControl Ltd and O
DeepOcean UK, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has been awarded a contract for trenching services on the Western HVDC Link project. The contract was awarded by Prysmian Group. DeepOcean’s scope of work will include pre-lay survey, pre-lay grapnel run, post-trench survey and trenching of o
YASKAWA Electric Corporation, a global manufacturer of servomotors, controllers, inverters, and industrial robots, has announced that it will be the sole supplier of The Switch megawatt-class permanent magnet generator (PMG) and full-power converter (PMG) advanced drive train packages for wind power
This week Italdraghe will deliver a newly-built cutter suction dredger and booster station to Guyana, South America, as part of a complete dredging equipment package. The SGT 180 B cutter suction dredger and SGT 180 booster have been custom-designed and built by Italdraghe in its main shipyard to sp
The Panama Canal expansion project will double the capacity of the Panama Canal by 2015 by creating a new lane of traffic and allowing more and larger ships to transit. The program consists of the construction of two new sets of locks – one on the Pacific and one on the Atlantic side of the [&hellip
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) yesterday commenced the Newtown Creek dredging project. Dredging works started in Whale Creek and then will move west along Newtown Creek towards the Pulaski Bridge to the mouth of Newtown Creek. During the dredging operations, hydrogen
The Everett Harbor dredging project will commence in October 2014 and should be completed by February 2015, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District. During this cleanup program, approximately 100,000 cubic yards of sediment will be removed from the Snohomish River and placed
The Senate has passed the Greens’ order for production of documents today to establish whether the Environment Minister was aware of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s internal warnings against approving the Abbot Point coal port expansion. Documents released under Freedom of Information
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host an educational webinar on April 3 to provide information to the public about the dredge material management and permitting process in the Long Island Sound region. The webinar will take place from 9.30am to 1pm. The first presentation, at 9.30am, wi
New York City officials recently announced the opening of the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility, which will serve as the principal processing facility for all of New York City’s curbside residential recyclables. With the capacity to process 1,000 tons of recyclables every day, this marks the fi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, announced the availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for the Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet Stabilization Project and the opening of the window for the public to submit written comments regarding it. With the passage of the
