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Upstate opponents of a decision by regional Environmental Protection Agency officials to let General Electric Co. close its PCB cleaning plant in Fort Edward had an audience this week with high-ranking national EPA officials in Washington, D.C., to make the case that GE should be held back. A coalition representing nine environmental groups met Wednesday… Read More
As part of its efforts to provide communities and businesses with products, tools, services, and funding to better address weather- and climate-related threats, today NOAA announced $4 million in recommended funding for six habitat restoration projects across the United States. The projects recommended for funding, under NOAA’s 2015 Coastal Ecosystem Resiliency Grants Program, focus on… Read More
Environmentalists Wednesday lambasted the Sea Island Co.’s plans to keep an already fragile beach — where eight multil-million dollar homes are proposed — from further eroding into the Atlantic Ocean. Owners of Sea Island, the posh coastal resort favored by well-to-do Atlantans, seek state and federal permission to build a groin — a long, narrow,… Read More
Quay and dredging works have begun at PSA Panama’s International Terminal (PPIT), as part of a US$450m expansion project to raise the facility’s capacity to 2m teu. After a six month design and tendering process, the first contracts were awarded to Jan De Nul and Saipem – construction contractors headquartered in Belgium and Italy respectively…. Read More
Comments on a proposed Trinity River channel improvement project will be accepted in a public meeting set for Wednesday 2 December 2015 from 6.30 to 8.30pm, at the Moose Lodge, 71 Lewiston Turnpike Rd in Lewiston. Staff from the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control board… Read More
BMT JFA Consultants (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, recently completed the project management and supervision of the 2015 Bandy Creek Boat Harbour Dredging works. This campaign was undertaken as part of the state-wide maintenance dredging program which has been managed by BMT for the… Read More
China has shown “great restraint” in the South China Sea by not seizing islands occupied by other countries even though it could have, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Tuesday ahead of two regional summits where the disputed waterway is likely to be a hot topic. Beijing has overlapping claims with Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia,… Read More
A Congressional roundtable in New Orleans Friday will examine issues related to the next Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), legislation that authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out navigation, flood control, shoreline protection, hydropower, dam safety, water supply, recreation, environmental restoration and protection, and disaster response and recovery activities throughout the Nation…. Read More
The Bundaberg flood protection study is a vital component of the Queensland Government’s commitment to develop a 10-year action plan for flood mitigation works in Bundaberg. The study will build on the previous work undertaken in 2013 by the Bundaberg Regional Council to identify flood mitigation projects. The Queensland Government is now engaging with the… Read More
Following feedback from Taieri ratepayers on the fairness of scheme funding in this year’s Long-Term Plan, Otago Regional Council (ORC) has agreed to review the public versus private benefit of the four flood protection and drainage schemes in the Taieri and Lower Clutha catchments. The review is being done by independent economic consultants Castalia, of… Read More