March 15, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

http://www.portworld.com; 15 Mar 2007, 14:43 GMT

The public sector and several service companies operating vessels in the port of Rotterdam have expressed a joint intention to switch to low-sulphur fuel for their vessels within the foreseeable future.

The fuel involved is EN 590, which is used in trucks and has less than 10 parts per million (ppm) of sulphur, the Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoR) announced today.

At the moment, 2,000 ppm is the legal upper limit for fuel used by inland shipping….(Full Story)

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March 15, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Washington Group International to Perform Clean-Air Retrofit Services at Allegheny Energy Power Plant

PR-inside; 2007-03-15 17:16:53

BOISE, Idaho and MORGANTOWN, W.Va., March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Washington Group International announced today that it has been selected to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for a major environmental project at Allegheny Energy’s Fort Martin Power Station near Maidsville, W.Va. This initiative is part of Allegheny’s extensive environmental stewardship program to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions.

As part of the $550 million project, Washington Group will provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for flue-gas desulfurization systems (scrubbers) at the 1,107-megawatt power plant. The scrubbers will be designed to remove more than 90 percent of the sulfur dioxide emissions from the station. In addition to the environmental benefits of the project, the system will enable the power plant to burn more local, high-sulfur coal. The retrofit is expected to be operational in 2009….(Full Story)

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