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| Canadian oil-sand mines stuck as crude price plummets |
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Canada's once booming oil sands industry is cooling fast as the plunging oil price undermines investment. More than US$60 billion (£41 billion) worth of projects to extract oil from the bitumen-rich sands of northern Alberta have been delayed in the past three month. |
| Times Online Mon 5 Jan |
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| New nuclear reactor set for Anglesey |
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Npower urges Government to give its plans the green light as old facility prepares to close. |
| Independent Tue 30 Dec |
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| Crude price fall forces oil industry into rethink |
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A sudden collapse in the price of crude oil is forcing energy companies to slash budgets and reduce exploration and oilfield development programmes. |
| Times Online Mon 22 Dec |
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| Corrosion source of pipeline blast |
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Corrosion of a gas pipeline was the cause of a blast that destroyed homes in Virginia. |
| NDTCabin Sat 20 Dec |
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| Ice Jacking cause of ski lift collapse |
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When the water froze, it expanded and caused the ski lift tower to rupture and collapse, a situation known as ice jacking. |
| CBC News Dec 2008 |
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| Jail for fake engineer who deceived Qantas |
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Engineer was caught red-handed lying about his qualifications to perform maintenance checks on Qantas jets |
| smh.com.au Thu Dec 18 |
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| UK work time opt-out under threat |
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Britain has moved a step closer to being forced to limit the working week to 48 hours for all employees. |
| BBC News Wed 17 Dec |
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| End of the oil sands' building frenzy? |
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The economic crisis and collapse in oil prices have pushed the sector to the brink, resulting in the delay of some $40-billion in new projects. |
| Financial Post Fri 12 Dec |
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| Two aircraft carriers delayed for two years |
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Two major aircraft carriers designed to boost Britain's world standing will be delayed for two years. |
| Telegraph Thur 11 Dec |
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| Galsi Pipeline Project |
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The Galsi pipeline will bring gas from Algeria to Italy, via the mountainous island of Sardinia. |
| NDTCabin Tue 9 Dec |
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| Crossrail narrows funding gap with City pledge of up to £350m |
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The trans-London rail link Crossrail has secured £200m in funding from the City of London, closing one of the last gaps in the £16bn infrastructure project's costs. |
| Guardian Fri 5 Dec |
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| Rolls-Royce and Balfour Beatty in nuclear deal with French |
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Rolls-Royce, the jet engine maker, and Balfour Beatty, the construction group, have announced an Anglo-French collaboration on the next generation of UK nuclear power plants. |
| Times Online Fri 5 Dec |
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| Total faces criminal charges over Buncefield blast |
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Total, the French oil giant, and four other companies are facing criminal prosecution over Britain's biggest peacetime explosion. |
| Times Online Mon 1 Dec |
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| Airbus jet crashes on test flight |
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Two people have been killed and five others are missing after an Airbus A320 jet crashed during a test flight |
| BBC News Thu 27 Nov |
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| Severn reef plan is 'more green' |
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Conservationists claim building a reef across the Severn Estuary would be cheaper, less damaging and generate more power than a proposed barrage. |
| BBC News Wed 26 Nov |
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| Coal power plan for nuclear site |
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A new coal-burning power plant, which would be the first conventional station to come on stream in Scotland since 1980, is being planned for the Firth of Clyde. |
| BBC News Thu 20 Nov |
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| Romania to build nuclear reactors |
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Romania has signed a deal to build two more reactors at its only nuclear power station, Cernavoda, on the Danube. |
| BBC News Thu 20 Nov |
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| 787 wing break passes structural test |
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Engineers accomplished a significant structural milestone Saturday when they broke a 50-foot-long section of one of the composite wings. On purpose. |
| seattlepi.com Tue 18 Nov |
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| Fears after big Wembley bang |
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A section of Wembley Stadium was closed off on Monday after a 'massive bang' startled workers at the multi-million pound complex. |
| HarrowObserver Wed Nov 12 |
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| World needs four new Saudi Arabias, warns IEA |
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Fresh sources of oil equivalent to the output of four Saudi Arabias will have to be found simply to maintain present levels of supply by 2030. |
| Times Online Wed 12 Nov |
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