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Three of Deepwater Wind’s five turbines stand in the water off Block Island, R.I. Several state legislators have requested that the Board of Public Utilities to suspend its approval of a coastal wind energy project by Dutch company Orsted. The proposed facility is expected to cost $300 million to $400 million, with construction starting in 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) (Continued from page 15) New Jersey has long hoped to be a national leader in wind energy. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has set a goal of generating 7,500 megawatts of offshore wind energy in the state by 2035, enough to power 3.2 million homes. Sweeney’s letter arrived the same day the state agreed to a second round of bid solicitations for additional offshore wind projects. Sept. 10, the Delaware River Basin Commission voted to stay its initial approval of a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in a section of Greenwich Township in Gloucester County along the Delaware River at the site of a former DuPont explosives plant. Proposed by Delaware River Partners, a subsidiary of New Fortress Energy, the project would provide a transit point for liquefied natural gas by rail, truck and boat. The commission voted to put its initial approval on hold until an appeal brought by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network can be decided. That move had the practical effect of preventing the company from beginning construction soon, said Maya van Rossum, the environmental organization’s chief executive officer. The resolution was introduced by Ken Kosinsky, representing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the commission, and was adopted with New York, New Jersey and Delaware voting yes, and Pennsylvania abstaining. A coalition of six environmental groups asked a federal judge in August to block a new Trump administration rule allowing rail shipments of liquefied natural gas. Delaware River Partners did not immediately respond to a request for comment following the Sept. 10 vote. Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, was encouraged by the commission’s vote. “It’s a win any time you get a delay on a bad project,” he said. “We hope with more time, (the commission) will realize how bad this project is, and stop it.” 16 | Chief Engineer
News Permafrost Results in $20M Water Costs for Alaska Zinc Mine ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A company operating one of the world’s largest zinc mines in northwest Alaska said thawing permafrost linked to global warming forced an expenditure of nearly $20 million on water storage and discharge management. 2019, which saw record high warmth, Hall said. “In 30 years of Red Dog operation, this is the first time that we’ve ever seen background levels in the creeks to the point where it precluded us from discharging,” Hall said. Teck Resources Ltd. says permafrost thaw in the watershed surrounding the massive Red Dog Mine is releasing higher natural levels of dissolved minerals and other particles into streams, Alaska’s Energy Desk recently reported. The Vancouver-based company said the release limited the mine’s ability to discharge its treated wastewater into a nearby creek, causing water to back up in its tailings reservoir. Red Dog can only discharge from the reservoir when the creek’s naturally occurring levels of total dissolved solids fall below a threshold, Community and Public Relations Manager Wayne Hall said. The threshold was never exceeded before the summer of Was your building protected with the FM Approved Trident Wireless Water Leak Detection System during the Covid-19 shutdown? Red Dog resumed discharging in late summer following the construction of a new wastewater treatment system using reverse osmosis. Teck took various steps to keep water levels in the reservoir from getting too high while the system was built. The measures included pumping hundreds of millions of gallons water out of the reservoir into the bottom of Red Dog’s active mining pit, forcing the company to mine lower-grade ore toward the top of the pit rather than higher-grade ore below. The mine also removed millions of gallons more from the reservoir by freezing the water into an ice field and accelerating a planned increase of the reservoir’s dam height. Red Dog opened in 1989 in a partnership with NANA Regional Corp., the Alaska Native corporation that leases the mine property to Teck. The mine generated $1.6 billion in revenue last year and $700 million in gross profits, Teck reported. If not, it should be! Hundreds of Buildings throughout the US were. The Detection Group’s Trident platform is the only FM Approved wireless water leak detection system. For more information contact Julian Sipiora 847-529-7960 jsipiora@thedetectiongroup.com www.thedetectiongroup.com Volume 85 · Number 10 | 17
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