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The Covington City Council is considering asking the Army Corps of Engineers to clear and dredge the Bogue Falaya River, in an effort to prevent the kind of significant flooding that parts of the city experienced earlier this month. The council passed a similar resolution in 2008, but Councilman Rick Smith said the federal reaction… Read More
Our climate is changing, that’s for sure. The big debate is about how much mankind is responsible for it. All over the world horrendous flooding has taken away communities, connections, and livelihoods; elsewhere, coastal erosion has stepped up a gear: shore lines are receding apace while material is being deposited across vital waterways. Several solutions… Read More
Divers have called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw a permit issued to Dublin Port which allows it to dump “dredge spoil” off Dublin Bay. The Irish Underwater Council said the permit approved by the EPA was issued before designation of a special area of conservation (SAC) in Dublin Bay extending from Rockabill… Read More
After more than 15 years, Portland’s finally about to receive a detailed chore list for cleaning its river. At some point in the next few weeks, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will release a proposed plan for how the city and potentially more than 150 other entities must attack a century’s worth of dangerous… Read More
On Friday of this week, Metro Vancouver council will meet to very likely ask the federal government to submit Premier Christy Clark’s proposal to replace the Massey Tunnel with a 10-lane bridge to a Canadian Environmental Assessment Review Panel. It is likely to approve that motion because two weeks ago the Metro Vancouver Intergovernmental Committee… Read More
U.S. East Coast ports looking to use the Panama Canal expansion to lure traffic from congested West Coast ports have failed to invest in infrastructure and are years away from being ready for extra business, the head of the world’s largest lessor of container ships said on Tuesday. “The infrastructure’s just not there,” Seaspan Corp… Read More
Encouraging CN Rail to improve the rail line through Hay River and dredging the port were among several of the items laid out last week when the government unveiled its proposed mandate for the next four years. Those tasks, assigned to Transportation Minister Wally Schumann, who is also the Hay River North MLA, are among… Read More
The federal government has allocated RM360 million for the Sarawak River dredging project to enhance better access to Kuching Port. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
The “crown jewel of the Ozarks” is facing an “economic disaster” as Rockaway Beach Mayor Don Smith puts it, when it comes to Lake Taneycomo flooding. “Rockaway Beach is where tourism first started,” Smith said. “Rockaway Beach means to the Ozarks what Israel means to the world. Everybody has some kind of memory here. Everybody… Read More
An Oregon lawmaker says his bill to extend and expand a ban on suction-dredge mining has died because of delay tactics by mining interests. The Mail Tribune reports that Sen. Alan Bates, D-Medford, says he has pulled the bill after attempts to add amendments to gain bipartisan support didn’t work. Bates’ bill would have broadened… Read More
Could that thick layer of black muck that chokes our harbors and channels be a natural resource that could become new recreational areas and barrier islands that protect our coastline during severe tides and storm surges? The answer is at least a qualified yes. And the town’s plan to dredge the Mianus River south of… Read More
The Incorporated Trustees of Dredgers Association of Nigeria has instituted a contempt proceeding against the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Water Front Infrastructure Development over an alleged disobedience of court orders barring the state from regulating their activities. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had in a judgment in 2014 in a… Read More
A review to assess the success of a six-year cleanup of the upper Hudson River has been started by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. General Electric last year finished dredging a 40-mile northern stretch of the river for PCBs under a Superfund project that cost an estimated $1.5 billion. The scheduled year-long review announced Tuesday… Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set a public hearing for next month on a contentious $35 million passenger cruise terminal proposed for Charleston’s waterfront. The Corps has issued a public notice setting an April 12 hearing. The agency is reviewing an application by the South Carolina Ports Authority for a federal permit to… Read More
The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has released the results of its recent environmental review during the PORTOPIA conference in Lisbon. As in 2013, air quality remains the number one priority of European ports. The focus on air quality is in line with the priority given to the issue at E.U. political level with the… Read More