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The conservation group American Rivers has released its annual report on the 10 most endangered rivers in the United States, and there’s a common theme. Human disturbances such as mining, water pumping and dams are the biggest threats facing our waterways, reports Sarah Gibbens at National Geographic. As Gibbens points out, the list isn’t a… Read More
One month after officials from across Washington County met at Washington City Hall for a flood summit, the organizer, county Commissioner Harlan Shober, is hopeful something can be done to mitigate future flooding in the Chartiers Creek watershed. The March 6 summit brought together at least 10 municipalities whose residents, near and surrounding Chartiers Creek… Read More
The Connecticut Port Authority and seven other Connecticut parties – including Western Connecticut Council of Governments, based in Sandy Hook – have been named friends of the court in a case set to determine whether the approved site for disposal of dredged materials in the eastern part of Long Island Sound will go forward. The… Read More
California Coastal Commission staff is showing early disapproval of Newport Beach’s proposal to put control of certain in-water development permits in the city’s hands. In a roundup of bill analyses in commission Executive Director John Ainsworth’s legislative report for the commission’s meeting this week, staff recommends the commission oppose a bill in the state Legislature… Read More
Billions of euros of investment in upgrades to West African harbors by governments and companies will provide enough capacity for them to operate sufficiently for the next 10 years, Bloomberg writes today quoting Bollore Ports, the leading port operator in Africa. Countries in the region have been investing heavily in ports to cope with rising… Read More
An environmental organization identified a tributary of the Mississippi River on Tuesday as the nation’s most endangered river of 2018 after a retiring senator revived a decades-old flood drainage plan. A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to curb flooding in Mississippi’s delta region threatens the Big Sunflower River and 200,000 acres (80,938 hectares) of… Read More
Ministers of Aquaculture and Fisheries and the Environment, Katuska Drouet and Tarcisio Granizo, agreed with representatives of shrimp traders to review and deepen the environmental impact study (EIA) to the dredging project of Puerto Bolívar, El Oro, in order to avoid possible impacts on the shrimp production chain. The decision was adopted in response to… Read More
A carpet of sand and gravel would cap buried logs, woody debris and carcinogenic pollutants that contaminate sediment at the bottom of Port Angeles Harbor under a $32.1 million draft plan recommended by a five-party group of governments and businesses. Representatives from the city of Port Angeles, Port of Port Angeles, Nippon Paper Industries USA,… Read More
The Trump administration announced on Monday a new effort to speed environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects, a White House official said. U.S. President Donald Trump has made shortening the often lengthy timetable to get approvals for new highways, runways and other projects a key focus of his infrastructure reform plans. Trump presided over the… Read More
The Chennai Port Trust here has taken up dredging activities in order to attract large number of cruise vessels and has received Rs 70.24 crore as grant from the Tourism Ministry for the purpose, a top official said. “We have been taking up dredging activities for receiving large cruise vessels. In fact, a maiden cruise… Read More
Ghana and China have signed an agreement for the construction of the Jamestown fishing port complex. The 50-million-dollar project is expected to commence this year (2018). At the signing ceremony in Accra, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, said the complex when completed will enhance the productivity of the fisherfolk and create about one thousand… Read More
Chennai port has reported a net profit of Rs 32 crore during the financial year 2017-18 against Rs 13 crore in the previous fiscal. Operating surplus was Rs 225 crore against Rs 217 crore in the previous year, a 3.82 per cent increase. Better financial performance was possible due to higher cargo volume of 51.88… Read More
The Connecticut Port Authority (CPA) is relatively new. The authority wasn’t formed until 2015 and didn’t hire the new port director, Evan Mathews, until September of 2016. So, the process of “table setting” for future projects is still in the stage of finding out what’s in the drawer. It’s no easy task as the CPA’s… Read More
The latest in a growing string of Suezmax tankers fully loaded with crude oil left the Port of Corpus Christi this week. Buckeye Partners and Trafigura on Friday announced their first shipment of crude oil by Suezmax tanker from the port’s Buckeye Texas Hub terminal. The companies released an image of the vessel, named the… Read More
New England’s Port. The Port of Boston, specifically Massport’s container facility at Conley Terminal, is New England’s port. For years, it might have been debatable whether the Port of Montreal in Canada or the Port of New York/New Jersey was really New England’s port but not now. That day has passed. What’s changed over a… Read More