Progress Energy will be encouraged to repair the multi-million dollar damage at its Crystal River nuclear unit 3 as soon as possible, and terminate its engineering, procurement and construction contract with Shaw and Westinghouse for a new nuclear plant under a global settlement reached by the Florida’s office of Public Counsel, Progress Energy and other parties on Jan. 20.
The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline has suffered a major setback, with President Obama's Jan. 18 announcement that the State Dept. denied a permit for the $7-billion project.
Seismic monitoring continues around a deep fracking wastewater well in Ohio after a magnitude-4.0 earthquake and 10 other earthquakes were tentatively linked to activity at the well.
France must spend billions of dollars improving the safety of its huge fleet of nuclear plants following stress tests prompted by the destruction last March of Japan’s Fukushima reactors.
During the China International Sustainable Economy Industrialization Expo, held on Nov. 19-20 in Chengdu, government officials adhered to the party line.
Tanzania has stepped up the pace for building a $1-billion natural-gas pipeline, accelerating the project’s target completion date to December 2012 from the initial March 2013 goal.
Mitsui Inc., one of Japan’s largest construction firms and also one of its major nuclear fuel traders, is investigating the feasibility of building biomass power generators to help dispose of debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as well as help recycle waste from the reconstruction effort.
Massachusetts’ highest court on Dec. 28 upheld an agreement allowing Cape Wind to sell power to National Grid, removing a major obstacle for the planned 130-turbine offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound.The ruling affirms the 2010 decision by the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Utilities (DPU) to allow National Grid to buy 50% of Cape Wind’s output — 234 MW. The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the New England Power Generators Association and TransCanada had appealed the DPU’s decision late last year.In the 35-page ruling, Supreme Judicial Court Justice Margot Botsford called the DPU review consistent with