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Professor Robert Boucher: engineer and university vice-chancellor – Times Online
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsBob Boucher was an engineer of international repute who brought his leadership skills to bear on two leading institutions of higher education — the University of Sheffield, where he spent most of his career, and the University of Manchester …
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Old Dirty Coal Power Plants and the Unfinished Business Of the Clean … – The Daily Green
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsIf ever there were a provision in federal law that has kept too many lawyers busy in too many courtrooms, itos;s a section in the Clean Air Act called New Source Review. New Source Review sounds like a cabaret act, and in a bizarre sort of way, that …
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Climate proposal fuels coal worries – Coshocton Tribune
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsWASHINGTON – The potential impact of climate change legislation on consumers and businesses has sparked concerns in states that get a lot of their electricity from coal. The legislation will move to the top of the legislative agenda when Congress …
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Small farmers take fight to mighty miner – Sydney Morning Herald
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsA LEGAL battle between angry farmers and the mining giant BHP-Billiton in the black-soil country of the Liverpool Plains is threatening to derail plans to develop one of the biggest new coal mining ventures in NSW. Geoff Brown and three fellow …
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More Coal Layoffs – Metro News
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsA two month halt to production at the Pinnacle Mine in Wyoming County starts on Monday, putting about 200 people out of work for, at least, eight weeks. There is no word, meanwhile, on when or if work will resume at the Green Ridge Number One Mine …
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Steel industry awaits China, US auto rebound – Taipei Times
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsSteel is on edge and the global industry is cutting back hard, hanging on for either a budget blast from China, new credit for vast Middle Eastern building schemes or resurrection of the US auto industry. Demand has dwindled and steelmakers, notably …
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China lacks the steel for iron ore advantage – The Age
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsLOGIC suggests that the dynamics of an iron ore supply glut, a steel industry collapse and a new Team China approach to this yearos;s iron ore benchmark price negotiations would lead China to overturn five years of national humiliation and bring Vale …
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As economic crisis spreads, layoffs and cutbacks ripple across U.S … – Fond du Lac Reporter
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsSTURGEON BAY — Lori DeJardin of Sturgeon Bay has never met Mike Woods, who works for an iron ore mining company in northern Minnesota. Neither have met Peter Walton, a Great Lakes mariner who lives in Suttons Harbor, Mich. But in ways all three may …
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China sparks iron ore buying spree – The Australian
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsCHINAos;S steel mills bought record quantities of iron ore in March in response to the Chinese Governmentos;s stimulus package, which appears to be succeeding in halting the downturn. Although the rest of the world remains in deep recession, with a new …
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Leighton lands $500m Pilbara rail contract – The Australian
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No commentsBHP Billiton has awarded a $500 million Pilbara rail contract to Leighton Contractors, a subsidiary of construction giant Leighton Holdings, and Macmahon Contractors. Leighton Contractors and Macmahon (17 per cent owned by Leighton) will develop a …
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