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About 80 villagers and activists in Koh Kong province on Monday boarded and attempted to tow away five sand-dredging barges as part of their ongoing campaign against two firms they accuse of polluting a local waterway and causing riverbank collapses, activists and officials said. Yoeun Tinit, a member of environmental NGO Mother Nature, said Rainbow… Read More
The Managing Director of Calabar Channel Management Limited (CCM), Mr. Bart Van Eenoo has said that there was nothing fishy about the contract for the dredging of Calabar port awarded to the consortium. Eenoo was reacting to calls by the Nigerian Shippers Association for President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the N20bn contract awarded to CCM… Read More
Wellfleet selectmen will hold a public hearing Tuesday night to discuss the dredging needs of the town’s sand-choked harbor. The area was last dredged in 2001, and now officials are worried the silt problem will cause safety hazards if it is not dredged soon. Task force member and Wellfleet Shellfish Promotion and Tasting Executive Director… Read More
San Luis Obispo resident Rob Davidson laughed as he recalled watching a Subarudrive across Laguna Lake a few months ago. “Someone called and complained,” he said, and shortly after, the city dropped a boulder onto the boat ramp to prevent other drivers from exploring the dry, cracked lakebed. In past years, Davidson and neighbor John… Read More
Parliament could be asked to give the new Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) the power to raise income locally for its vital flood prevention work. The idea of giving the authority the legal power to raise income from householders and landowners/occupiers, is just one of four options for how an annual £2.7 million could be found…. Read More
All efforts will be made to streamline the much lauded International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT) at Vallarpadam, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said on Monday. The ICTT was opened in 2011. “I assure the house that very soon, I will be calling a meeting of all concerned to see how best we can rev up… Read More
A study regarding the possible dredging of Town Cut in St George’s has been carried out, sparking hope that “procrastination” on the project is finally coming to an end. New mayor Quinell Francis is one of many in recent years who have voiced support for modifying the cut — allowing it to accommodate bigger ships… Read More
BOAT owners in Burry Port are urging the county council to set out a definite strategy to safeguard the future of their beloved harbour. People have called on the county council to detail their plans to tackle rising levels of sand and silt, which are currently slashing boat owners’ time on the water. This comes… Read More
Following agitation by the tribals of Saputara and Navagam villages in the last few days demanding steps to check depletion of water in Sarpaganga lake, Dang district administration on Thursday ordered desilting and dredging of the pond. Officials of Saputara Notified Area Authority have asked hotel owners and others to remove their pipelines from Sarpaganga… Read More
SILT and sand piling up in Burry Port harbour, which is resulting in an annual loss of up to £78,000 in potential income, could soon be tackled. At a meeting of Carmarthenshire Council’s Executive Board on Monday the ongoing issues at the harbour, including a significant build up of sand and silt, were discussed. Councillors… Read More
Representative of major British ports have called for government funding, both in Britain and the rest of Europe, to be distributed more equally between ports. In a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ports and Maritime this week, the new British ports and maritime minister, Robert Goodwill, was quizzed by representatives of British ports…. Read More
A letter signed by 141 members of the state Assembly is calling for General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to expand the company’s Hudson River PCB cleanup operations until it fulfills its responsibility to “make the river a safe and usable resource” once again, according to a press release from Assembly Member Steven Englebright, chairman of the… Read More
Byron Shire Council has called on the state government to defer any dredging of the Brunswick Heads boat harbour and navigation channels, and will refuse to allow council’s boat ramp to launch the dredge vessel till questions on the works have been answered. Council yesterday moved an urgency motion calling on lands and water minister… Read More
The debate may have been cordial, but the most recent discussion on the dredging of the St. Johns River made it obvious that opposing stakeholders are still nowhere near finding one unified solution for the harbor deepening project. Representatives for the port, the St. Johns Riverkeeper, the Rodman Reservoir and the local longshoremen’s union all… Read More
Those who have long been waiting for Duxbury Harbor to be dredged may have longer to wait. There was only one bidder for the project, and the bid by Cashman/Burnham came in at nearly $5.65 million, higher than the government’s estimate, according to Tim Dugan, spokesman for the New England district of the Army Corps… Read More