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The Environmental Protection Agency finalized and issued a Clean Water Act general permit for wastewater treatment plants discharging to New Hampshire’s Great Bay estuary. In a press release Tuesday, the EPA said the new permit “will protect water quality and the health of ecosystems throughout the estuary by limiting nitrogen discharges.” Under terms of the… Read More
Florida’s waters may be protected from offshore drilling but the Bahamas plans to start looking for oil in less than a month at an exploratory well just 150 miles off the coast of the Sunshine State. Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) said in a regulatory filing last week that it contracted the UK-registered Stena IceMAX drill… Read More
TACLOBAN CITY – A mining firm has assured residents of MacArthur, Leyte that they would be responsible in their business operations after a parish priest and netizens raised concerns over the impact of destructive mining on the environment. In a statement issued Friday, the management of MacArthur Iron Sand Project Corp. (MIPC) denied claims they… Read More
The City of Redondo Beach has applied for permits to dredge King Harbor. If approved, this will be the third time the harbor has been dredged since 1988. As sediment moves naturally down the coast, it piles up at the breakwater, a porous wall of rocks. Gradually, material gets through, builds up in the harbor,… Read More
NEW YORK – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 Administrator Pete Lopez, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, New York State Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon, New York City Councilmember Brad Lander, members of the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group and other dignitaries marked the start of dredging operations in the upper portion of the Gowanus Canal… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lt. Gen. Scott A. Spellmon, USACE Commanding General and 55th U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, signed the Chief’s Report for the Grand River Basin Study on November 19, 2020. The signing of the report progresses the project to Congress for authorization.”I am grateful for the hard work of the entire team and… Read More
The new TCC 78000 heavy-duty gantry crane at crane manufacturer Liebherr’s Rostock, Germany, facility — Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH — loaded 72 foundation piles for Denmark’s largest wind farm between May and September 2020. Commissioned by EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH in cooperation with Vattenfall, this was the first loading for an external customer carried out… Read More
Environmentalists concerned over massive expansion into critical biodiversity areas. Government is facing a High Court challenge that goes to the heart of a surge in mining and prospecting applications along several hundred kilometres of the West Coast and offshore. The legal challenge is to specific decisions taken by the government: its approval of a massive expansion of… Read More
Plans to dredge parts of the sea floor around the Port of Felixstowe will “future-proof the port and secure jobs locally”, according to a spokesman. Harwich Haven Authority announced that their licence application to carry out major improvement works, including increasing the depth of Harwich Harbour and the deep water access channel, have been approved… Read More
THE Port of Dar es Salaam has been voted as Africa’s Leading Cruise Port in the 27th edition of the World Travel Awards (WTA), held in London on Tuesday. This is the first time Tanzania’s largest port scooped the award in a crème de la crème category which featured the likes of Port Elizabeth, Cape… Read More