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Europe Wind Power Plans Are Soaring, But Costs Are Not

Peter Reina

March 29, 2017

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From water depth to turbine sizes, everything about European offshore-wind power is getting larger, except cost.

Steel in The Water

Startup of First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Propels Domestic Market

The ambitious Cape Wind project hit a wall after 15 years, but developers see water-based wind boost in the U.S. power mix.

Mary B. Powers

Debra K. Rubin

March 29, 2017

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The over-ambitious Cape Wind offshore farm in Massachusetts hit a wall after 15 years, but developers now see new ways to boost water-based wind in the U.S. power mix.

Hanford’s Plutonium Reclamation Facility

Plutonium Processing Facility Demolition Proceeds at Hanford Site

Tim Newcomb

March 29, 2017

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As crews from CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. tear down the four main buildings that make up the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) at the Dept. of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeastern Washington state, removal of contaminated buildings at one of the nation’s most radioactive sites nears key milestones en route to a full demolition later this year.

EPA Awards Flint, Mich., $100 Million for Water Infrastructure

Related to federal settlement mandating $97 million replacement of city's lead pipes

Pam Radtke Russell

March 28, 2017

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The U.S. EPA has awarded Flint, Michigan, $100 million to improve its drinking water infrastructure as part of the water infrastructure bill approved by Congress last year.

Federal Spending

Trump Budget Would Cut Some Construction Accounts, Spare Others

Hit list includes TIGER grants, new transit starts, rural water grants and loans

Tom Ichniowski

March 16, 2017

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OMB director says funds cut from some programs will go into expected infrastructure investment program later this year.

Conditions Push Up Price of Oil-Line Expansion in West Canada

March 15, 2017

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Costs for Kinder Morgan Inc.’s 715-mile-long Trans Mountain oil-pipeline expansion in Alberta and British Columbia have risen to $5.48 billion from $5 billion since 2014, when the project was announced, company officials said on March 9.

Exxon Mobil Outlines $20 Billion in Projects Along Gulf Coast

Thomas F. Armistead

March 15, 2017

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Exxon Mobil will build or expand 11 projects along the U.S. Gulf Coast in a $20-billion, 10-year program, Darren Woods, Exxon Mobil Corp.’s chairman and CEO, told the annual CERAWeek energy conference in Houston earlier this month.

Infrastructure

ASCE Rates U.S. Infrastructure at D+, Same as in 2013

Report estimates investment shortfall at nearly $2.1 trillion over 10 years

Tom Ichniowski

March 9, 2017

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Rail sector rates the best, with a grade of B; transit ranks at the bottom, with a D-minus.

New Kink in Florida Nuclear Plant Expansion

Mary B. Powers

March 8, 2017

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Florida Power & Light is now weighing a new course of action after the state Supreme Court ordered added environmental compliance.

Rapid Construction of Southeast Natural Gas Pipeline Nears Conclusion

Mike Bernos

March 8, 2017

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Sabal Trail Transmission LLC officials say construction of the company’s $3.2-billion natural-gas pipeline, approved in February 2016, is now 88% complete.