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December 2006
Small explosion knocks out power in north Chico
Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USA
By ER Staff. A small explosion in an underground vault knocked out power to about 2,300 Pacific Gas and Electric customers Friday morning in north Chico. ...
Crews clean up, restore power after underground explosion
Pottstown Mercury - Pottstown,PA,USA
POTTSTOWN -- PECO employees were still at the scene Thursday of the underground explosion at the intersection of High and Hanover streets. ...
Coal industry zeros in on way to strengthen underground seals
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
... standard was 20 psi, but West Virginia regulators suspect the explosion at the ... is considered critical to making the nation's 600 or so underground coal mines ...
State, federal governments offer incentives for using solar power
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... his new North Port Estates home last week, intends to plant an elaborate fruit and vegetable garden with an irrigation system that traps and uses rainwater. ...
Mining for Picher
NewsOK.com (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... In the early years, mules pulled the newly blasted ore on underground train tracks. ... tragedies was just a swath of fertile prairie with a deep-hidden secret. ...
Copper thefts plague region
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA
By Nancy McCleary. Lawmen and property owners continue to look for ways to slow copper thefts that are causing thousands of dollars ...
Power outages plague tiny BC community
CBC British Columbia - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada Residents of Eastgate near Manning Park say they're getting tired of the recurring power outages that have been hurting business in the community since early ...
Acquisition Of Solar Installer Warms SunPower's Future
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... SunPower, which dates back to the 1980s, spent 15 years focused on research and development of a solar technology that's still not commercialized. ...
Underground garages popular
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA... Gordon Moore, 3, drives his battery-operated jeep up the driveway from his University Park family's underground garage with work space. ...
Nigerian Pipeline Explosion Kills Hundreds
PBS - USA
... An armed gang punctured the underground pipeline overnight in order to siphon fuel into road ... In May, more than 150 people died in a similar explosion in Lagos. ...
APS gets first electricity from NM wind farm
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... New Mexico Wind Energy Center, which produces 200 megawatts of electricity for PNM ... that threshold because it also produces 10 megawatts of geothermal power and
The Building Is the Solar Cell
Wired News - USA... Building materials such as steel, glass and roofing may soon have embedded solar cells thanks to a thin-film technology that uses copper indium gallium selenide ...
Solar-powered pool among first of its kind
Murfreesboro Post - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
... "So we decided to try it.". Genersys thermal solar technology is the cost-effective way to heat any size swimming pool, according to the company.
India lights up Nepal village
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
... India has so far executed ten solar electrification projects in various parts ... Promotion Centre (AEPC) under the Ministry of Science & Technology of Government .
Underground Dams Being Considered to Meet Water Demand
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
... said it would be carried out in the southern Tihama region that receives a lot of rainwater and has suitable locations to establish underground dams to store ...
Underground transformer blast injures four workers in Nashville
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA... A similar explosion of an underground Nashville Electric Service transformer in 1997 at the NASCAR Cafe, which was under construction in downtown Nashville ..
To fully appreciate energy, you must dig deeper
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA... take a safety course on what to do if a fire, cave-in, explosion or other ... years ago to get used to the molelike environment of working seven miles underground.
Tribute to men in pit disaster
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England,UK
... An explosion ripped through an underground mine shaft, causing a massive collapse and trapping hundreds of men and boys inside. ...
‘’Underground art found as town moves to buy buildings
Barnstable Patriot - Barnstable,MA,USA
By Edward F. Maroney. The rambling house at the corner of Pearl and South streets in Hyannis may not look like an art museum, but ...
Cameco to start round-the-clock work on flooded uranium mine Dec. ...
CBC News - Canada
(TSX:CCO) has begun the reclamation of its flooded Cigar Lake uranium mine, with work on the underground facility to begin around the clock starting Dec. 27. ...
Underground Explosion Causes Scare Downtown
WKRN - Nashville,TN,USA
... Nashville Electric Service workers who were rushed to the hospital with severe electrical burns to the face, when an explosion took place underground at Second
City's underground secret to be revealed
ic Newcastle.co.uk - Newcastle,England,UK
... The Victoria Tunnel runs for two and a half miles beneath the city and was built between 1839 and 1842 as an underground railway to carry coal from Spital
Underground air might cause DNA damage
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
Particularly damaging to our cellular DNA are the particles from the underground system in Stockholm, Sweden, according to a new doctoral thesis from ...
W. Va. Coal Industry Struggles to Find Lightning Solution
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
... to determine how electricity from a lightning strike could travel more than 2 miles to an abandoned, sealed area underground and spark a methane gas explosion. ...
~Going underground for inspiration
Examiner.com - USA
SAN FRANCISCO - Have you ever found yourself waiting for BART, wondering just what, exactly, is that person across from you thinking about as she stares off ...
Underground power line ruled out
BBC News - UK
The energy company behind plans to upgrade a power line between the Highlands and Central Scotland has ruled out burying it underground.
‘’Inside the Earth includes local mining
Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,USA
... underground he thought he would be claustrophobic, but when he actually went down (up to 2,500 feet at times), he realized it was just like being in a tunnel. ...
London Underground Picadilly Line marks 100th birthday
Transport Briefing - London,UK
A series of celebratory events is being held to mark the centenary of the London Underground Picadilly Line, which reached its 100th birthday on Friday (15 ...
95% of our grid electricity from wind at market prices near fossil ...
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
... You would use existing hydro, new and existing geothermal, solar thermal ... new capabilities and increased purchase of variable-source electricity would encourage
US wood-fired boilers cause concern
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... Future Energy Source (April 3, 2005) -- A wood-fueled electricity generating plant ... as sunshine, wind, flowing water, biological processes, and geothermal heat ...
State lights way toward lower electricity costs
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
... offers up to $50,000 a year in rebates for lighting and appliance upgrades ... Corning's Kennebunk plant got some of its energy-saving ideas by sending engineers to ...
Rotary proposes underground utility poles
Pictorial Gazette - Old Saybrook,CT,USA
... for the creation of a public park overlooking Keyboard Pond, however, it unsuccessfully fought for the relocation of Main Street utility cables underground.
NJ contends with secret dangers below
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... The first homes near Franklin's 32-acre landfill were built in 1978, when no laws required disclosure about underground poisons. ...
Advice for protecting your home
Elmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USA
... And we decided after that (explosion) happened to take a 'whole house' safety ... Another thing people should do is check for underground utility lines before ...
Milwaukee Workers Spotted Underground Propane Leak
CBS 5 - Green Bay - WI
... before an explosion leveled a warehouse near downtown Milwaukee, workers testing a backup power system noticed propane leaking from underground, a spokesman
Protest against underground parking garage turns violent
Caboodle.hu - Budapest,Hungary
As reported earlier, residents of Nagymezőo utca (District VI) are outraged by the district's decision about building an underground parking garage on the ...
Report: Lightning Bolt Exploded Sago Mine
Playfuls.com - Targu Mures,Romania
... 2 blast, a theory that critics of the company have disputed. The explosion involved methane gas which filled the underground. Lightning ...
Stories of shock, survival recounted
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA... Eddie Sparks, an employee of Super Excavators, said that at the time of the explosion he was working 20 feet underground in a shaft at N. 26th St.
Sydney's hunt for water goes underground
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia By Dale Paget. The NSW government is now looking underground, inside mines in its hunt for new water sources. Environment Minister ...
Leaky gas, torch caused mine blast, report says
CNN International - USA
PIKEVILLE, Kentucky (AP) -- Safety violations including use of an open-flame torch near a leaky methane seal sparked a deadly underground explosion at an ...
Tunnel to Beach Drained of Toxic Water
Palisadian-Post - Pacific Palisades,CA,USA
... 'I think that water snuck into the tunnel underground,' said Gary Hildebrand, the area engineer responsible for the tunnel and storm drain at Chautauqua. ...
’COALS DIRTY PAST
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
... Subsidence: sudden cave-ins above underground mines ... of the problems, such as spoil areas and gob piles, are easy to see, but others remain hidden, ticking time ...
PUD to go underground for some critical power lines
KONP.COM 1450 - Port Angeles,WA,USA
PUD commissioners yesterday approved contracts for laying underground power lines to two west end, and one east end area, each a big problem area when the high
Crash cuts power to 2,000 in Chestnut Ridge
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA ... People who called in the fire feared there might be an explosion because of the ... wires do occasionally melt asphalt, but it is rare that an underground gas main ...
Subsidizing Solar
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's Renewable Energy Trust has subsidized 438 solar power system installations since the program's start in 2003
Mine tours now offered all year
Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,USA The site, an abandoned copper mine, features tours of the buildings and an underground shaft. Underground tours will be offered ...
November 2006
Mine bosses jailed over colliery gas explosion that killed 166 in ...
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... and chief engineer of the mine, received five years over a gas explosion in 2004 ... A total of 293 miners were working underground when the deadly blast occurred. ...
Manhole Explosion Closes Downtown Intersection
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA
... underground feeder line blew and caused a little fire, resulting in the manhole cover being blown off the hole. People in nearby buildings felt the explosion, ...
Death toll in China mine blasts mounts to 92
Hindustan Times - India
... 32 miners were killed and 28 injured in a colliery gas explosion at Changyuan ... city, North China's Shanxi Province, killing all 24 miners underground, the local ...
Love the London Underground? Now you can buy a Station - and New ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
LONDON, November 28 -- British media student Tom Herrriott (21) has always loved that designclassic, the iconic map of the London Underground. ...
Carmel City Center To Have Underground Trash System
INDYchannel.com - Indianapolis,IN,USA
The new city center will have a $200 million underground garbage system -- only the third one in use in the US, 6News' Tanya Spencer reported.
Layne Christensen Aquires American Water's Underground ...
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
... Business Wire - infoZine - Layne Christensen Company (NASDAQ:LAYN) announced it has closed the acquisition of American Water's Underground Infrastructure Group ...
Fences on border won't end chaos of the underground
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Underground, they remain linked of necessity by the system built decades ago to channel torrential rains. In recent years, the US
Wrong turn puts driver on the rails
Reuters - USA
... A Portuguese pensioner caused mild commuter chaos in the city of Oporto this week when he unwittingly drove his car into the underground train network ...
Around the world
Detroit Free Press - United States
The bodies of all 17 men trapped underground after a mine explosion in southern Poland have been found, bringing the death toll to 23 in the country's worst
miners killed, 15 trapped after underground gas explosion in ...
Calgary Sun - Canada
... In 1991, five miners were killed in a cave-in. Earlier this year, a miner was rescued after he spent five days underground following a gas explosion.
Beijing plans world's longest underground
World Travel Guide - London,UK
The Beijing metro could supercede the London Underground as the world's longest subway network by 2020, under a proposal submitted by urban planners.
Indonesia gas blast linked to volcanic mud
International Herald Tribune - France
... Yusgiantoro, said at a news conference in Surabaya after inspecting the explosion site. ... cubic yards, of mud and water a day are now spouting from underground. ...
Crew snuffs 30-acre chunk of underground coal fire
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... But a construction crew managed to smother yet another chunk of a stubborn underground coal fire smoldering near Sutton for the past four decades.
'VCs' won by miners surface for new exhibition
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... Most of the mine had been closed because of gas problems before the explosion and many miners were concerned about conditions underground at the time, even ...
Lift my ride: Company designs lifts for storing cars
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... the company jokes that PhantomPark facilities can turn the average garage into "the Batcave," the underground headquarters of the ... "It's hidden, and it looks
A HOLE LOT OF BOTHER
South Tyneside Today - UK
... "We believe the explosion was caused by a problem with an underground cable and the force of it blew off the manhole cover.". SHOPPERS
Underground Blasts Hit Downtown Sacramento
KCRA.com - Sacramento,CA,USA
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A series of underground explosions caused some power outages and traffic problems in downtown Sacramento Monday morning.
Tunnels act as highways for migrants
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... The neighboring Grand Tunnel is up to 15 feet high and wide enough to ... Underground, they remain linked of necessity by the system built decades ago to channel
Serious drawbacks found for new tunnelling method
Al-Bawaba - Amman,Jordan
... When the crew for the 770-ft-long underground tunnel for a moving walkway connecting the airport's main terminal with a nearby concourse was only about 50 feet ...
’The subterranean world of South Africas gold pirates
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... were using explosives and handmade grenades to threaten the people underground. ... for fear it could jeopardise future operations into the tunnel complexes, but ...
Arizona's Big Ideas from AZ
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Today, approximately 40 percent of Arizona's water comes from underground. ... changing global knowledge economy fueled by innovation, research, advances in
McLean Group Pours Millions Into Reviving Underground Plan
Washington Post - United States
... Underlying the movement is widespread discontent and bafflement over why a proposal to build the line underground was killed despite its being favored by ...
Call over Underground fire safety
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Union leaders stepped up their campaign to keep fire safety regulations in place across London Underground, on the 19th anniversary of the King's Cross fire ...
gold smugglers with home-made bombs battle police
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Police in South Africa have launched a series of daring operations to combat bands of gold smugglers who operate more than a mile underground in mineshafts ...
Underground Waters Threaten Bulgarian Town Sofia News Agency - Bulgaria
Bulgaria: Millions of cubic metres of underground waters have filled the mine passages of southern Bulgaria's Pernik. The problem
Deep underground lab brings top award
Global National - Burnaby,BC,Canada
Physicists who went two kilometres underground in a Northern Ontario mine to solve one of the mysteries of the universe have picked up Canada’s newest
First underground water treatment facility opens
4ni.co.uk - UK
Regional Development Minister, David Cairns has today opened the award winning Fofanny Water Treatment Works – the only underground water treatment facility ...
Legislative panel issues study on underground power lines
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA... The study of underground power lines by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission could lead to legislation requiring utilities and regulators to give ...
Man nailing sign to utility pole burned
The Grand Rapids Press - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... The small explosion outside Shell Food Mart at 28th Street SE and Breton ... The line carries power from underground to the overhead distribution system, Pietryga
Cops battle gold pirates underground
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
In a dangerous cat-and-mouse game, South African police are battling armed gangs of gold pirates through dark mine shafts deep underground to stop an illicit ...
Underground Fire At SF's Union Sq. Snarls Traffic
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
A small underground electrical fire Monday evening near San Francisco's Union Square gridlocked rush hour traffic and resulted in the brief evacuation of at ...
Green group rejects call to tap underground water ABC Regional Online - Australia
Victoria's peak environmental group, Environment Victoria, says tapping underground water is not the answer to increasing water supplies to Ballarat. ...
Turkey's most important wealth lies underground
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey... 300 tons. A treasure is just sitting there underground. There are efforts to exploit it, but they are not enough. As exploration ...
China explores underground space to ease traffic, pollution woes
Telugu Portal - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India... Xinhua) China, which lags behind major countries in expenditure on environmental protection, has stepped up efforts to explore the use of underground space in ...
Repair on pipeline begins after fatality
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... the Colorado-Wyoming border, a day after a fiery explosion took a ... $4.4 billion Rockies Express pipeline project hit an existing underground pipeline belonging
Can history restore Helper?
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... Visitors will find an underground mine tunnel in the basement, a miniature train track ... One room contains maps and photographs of a deadly mine explosion in 1900 ...
Power cut off for up to 12 hours
Burnley Citizen - UK... Police said the underground explosion happened at roadworks by the library in Fern Lea Avenue, Barnoldswick, on Saturday night.
History of French Nuclear Tests in the Pacific
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... From 1981 on, most nuclear tests were conducted in the central part of the island underground. ... The second explosion killed him.
Fuel for thought at Israel's renewable energy conference
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA... Ormat also builds plants for collecting geothermal energy and has developed a ... Target another energy efficiency company has developed an electricity board which
Mine Could Be Powered by Nearby Geothermal Energy Source
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
Future electricity supplies for a South Australian uranium mine whose power requirements are ... 3 to 4 megawatts (MW) per year may come from a geothermal or "hot ...
US Geothermal Power Expanding Dramatically
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA... capacity, generating approximately 18 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. ... This would almost double installed US geothermal power capacity to over ...
Storm on Kamchatka delays planes, cuts electricity
ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
... Storm wind and heavy precipitations caused electricity cuts at the Mutnovskaya geothermal power plant and cutouts in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. ...
years on, hydro is back to bring power to the people Scotsman - United Kingdom
... in February last year when Tony Blair detonated a controlled explosion at Glendoe ... tunnels will channel water from the reservoir to the underground power station
Electrical fire causes $40K in damage at mall parking garage MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA... "Because there was no visibility in the underground area, I ... Construction workers told firefighters they had heard a loud explosion come from the garage, which ...
Mining construction starts in Jackson Twp.Community Press - Florence,KY,USA
... It will be using the underground portion of the 350 acres for mining, said Ben Rechter, president. ... "The fact that we're underground won't affect that.".
Underground water main now isolated
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
The Fire Service says it's isolated an underground water-main which has caused extensive flooding in downtown Auckland. The main ...
Crime and Public Safety 11-08-06
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA... an underground electrical vault exploded. Rialto firefighters came to the 500 block of North Pepper Avenue at noon after receiving calls about the explosion,
Waterworks museum taps into underground history
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
A WATERWORKS museum built on the site of the city's very first water plant was completed yesterday, city officials said. The original ...
'Mole' finishes work under airport
Indianapolis Star - United States
More than four months after it went underground, a 103-ton drilling machine finished burrowing a 2,000-foot-long tunnel under a runway and two taxiways at the ...
Residents want to put lines underground
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
By James Steinberg. DEL MAR – There would be 184 fewer utility poles in town, along with the tangle of wires strung between them ...
Con Ed to study underground grid system
Staten Island Advance - Staten Island,NY,USA... and Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff, Con Edison said yesterday it plans to study the costs and benefits of placing Staten Island's electrical grid underground. ...
Down to Earth-Underground energy savings
ABC12.com - Flint,MI,USA
By Joel Feick. OAKLAND COUNTY (WJRT) - (11/02/06)-- As we enter the prime heating season, there is an energy-efficient option to keep your home comfortable. ...
Hawthorn - Britain's secret 35 acre underground city
By peter Hawthorn, Wiltshire (also known as Burlington, TURNSTILE or Site 3) is a 35 acre underground city / nuclear bunker that's about 30 metres below the Wiltshire countryside. It has a railway station, BBC studios, government headquarters, ...
Underground Vaults addition nears completion
Kansas.com - KS,USA
Underground Vaults & Storage is nearing completion on a 27,000-square-foot addition to its Wichita facility, 3333 N. Mead. ... Underground Vaults & Storage, Inc. ...
Underground freeway and park proposed for Hollywood
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
... The idea is to take set the portion of the freeway running from just south of Sunset until just north of Hollywood and set it underground, then to lay down a 24
Stan Bank on a gold mine - literally
iAfrica.com - Cape Town,South Africa
No, not the proverbial stash of money one would associate with a bank, but an underground excavation that dates back to Johannesburg's early gold rush era
Another five US coal mine deaths in October Bush appoints mine ...
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA... On October 23, Dale Reightler, 43, was killed in an underground explosion half a mile deep in the R&D Coal Company mine in eastern Pennsylvania.
October 2006
9/11 manhole find in '02 not followed up
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... the city will undertake a block-by-block search of every underground utility space ... a block north of Ground Zero stumbled on a US Secret Service bulletproof vest ...
Ghostly claim to fame called bunk
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... the pipe leads to a cave-like entrance that begins the maze of underground tunnels. ... "Red Eyed Mike is the spirit that guards the entrance of the tunnel.
N. Koreans have retreat underfoot
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA.. The discovery of at least four major tunnel structures running from North ... were discovered when patrolling soldiers noticed smoke, heard underground voices and
Village Underground: The Tube Studio
By Hazel
Foxcroft bought two tube carriages that were going to be thrown out as scrap by London Underground and had them stuck them ... The offices of Foxcroft's cultural and creative enterprise Village Underground sits directly beneath the tube ...
Underground fire at landfill requires equipment rental
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA
The city plans to step up its efforts to contain a fire that has been burning underground at the landfill now that the fire season has ended. ...
FCC 811 mandate could be an underground Pandora's box
By Ephraim Schwartz(ephraim_schwartz@infoworld.com)
The center in turn connects to the local utility company in the area and which lays out the location of pipes and or cables underground. It is nice to know that my neighbor won't be cutting any power lines that turn off my ...
SaskPower working on technology to pump CO2 underground
CBC Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan,Canada
... says it's working with two private companies on "clean coal" technology that could allow it to pump a proposed power plant's greenhouse gases underground. ...
Worst of storm is over
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Also on Saturday, an underground explosion in Great Neck Plaza damaged LIPA's electrical equipment and pushed 1,400 customers into an intentional blackout as
killed as explosions rock Xinjiang
China Daily - China
Temperatures at the mouth of the coal mine reached 1,000 C after the underground explosion, which killed 14 miners instantly.
Friday Commute Messy After Manhole Explosions
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA... "There was no smoke, anything else that suggests an actual explosion.". ... Firefighters pulled off manhole covers in the vicinity to check underground for gas
Natural gas blast, fire sends two to hospital
The Times - Portland,Oregon,USA
... “The explosion knocked the garage door 20 ... The center is staffed 24 hours per day, seven days a week. The service of marking underground utilities is free.
Utility pinpoints cause of underground blast
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA
... "This event led to the fire, and ultimately, the underground explosion," wrote Connecticut Light & Power President Raymond Necci in a Wednesday letter to Mayor ...
Mine deaths now at 42 for year
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... After more than 25 years of working underground, Dale Reightler ... Reightler, 43, of Donaldson, Pa., was killed Monday in an explosion at a Schuylkill County coal ...
Miners' pictures from hell
NEWS.com.au - Australia... world waited, it took another torturous week before the escape tunnel finally reached ... have both vowed that they will never, never go underground again," Wright
London Might Disinfect Its Underground
ABC News - USA
With 3 million commuters every day, the London underground is one of the most traveled in the world, comprising 250 miles of subway tracks compared with 145 ...
Landholders monitor falling underground water level
ABC Online - Australia
A major drop in the underground water level near the Lake Cowal Gold Mine in central New South Wales has 80 landholders anxiously watching their stock and ...
IVRPD To Send Power Underground
Daily Nexus - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
... At a special meeting last night, the IVRPD gave SCE the right to dig trenches and install electrical boxes for underground electrical lines on board-controlled
Blast darkens NW intersection
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Traffic lights are still dark at a Logan Circle intersection near the site of an underground explosion earlier this month that popped manhole covers, shattered
Fire Breaks Out In Underground Electrical Vault
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
(CBS) LOS ANGELES A fire broke out Wednesday in an underground electrical vault in the La Crescenta area, but no one was hurt and no immediate outages were ...
Raleigh Council Approves Large Underground Parking Deck
Raleigh Chronicle - Raleigh,NC,USA
... to the city, the Raleigh City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to give the greenlight to the planning and design of a large underground parking deck to be ...
Anaheim dedicates underground electrical substation
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA... ANAHEIM – Anaheim Public Utilities and other officials dedicated the first underground electric substation in the nation during a ceremony today
Development of new underground mine formally underway
Resource Investor - Herndon,VA,USA
Bamako, Mali, 17 October 2006 (LSE:RRS)(Nasdaq:GOLD) - The development of Randgold Resources’ new Yalea underground mine at its Loulo project in Mali was ...
Leaky Pipe Leads To Hidden Room
All Headline News - USA
... of a leaky water pipe led to the discovery of a hidden room at a former hotel in West Virginia that might have been shut for years. The underground room is
Live wire shocks worker
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
DERBY — The discovery of a live underground electrical wire Monday morning ... officials expected the possibility of encountering some hidden connections after
Concrete flowing to clear up lake, river
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
... It's out of sight -- about 280 feet underground. ... mandated water pollution-control project: lining the walls of a 24-foot-wide sewer tunnel with concrete.
Underground blast hits Suffolk town
East Anglian Daily Times - Suffolk,England,UK A HOSPITAL manager told last night how he saw flames shooting up from a manhole cover after an underground explosion. Ian Stuchbury
Alabama coal miner killed in underground accident Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA... "He was in a non-producing area of the mine that no one travels," said Hall. "The mine is from 15 to 18 square miles (underground).".
Power lines hidden at beauty spot
BBC News - UK Power cables are being relayed underground at a Lancashire beauty spot to stop the views being spoiled. Leighton Moss nature reserve
Chinese coal miners rescued after 40 hours trapped underground
International Herald Tribune - France
AP. BEIJING Eight Chinese coal miners who were trapped when a tunnel collapsed were rescued early Thursday after 40 hours underground, a news report said, in a ...
Mild winter forecast could cut fuel costs
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA
... of ION Weather, a Hanover weather forecasting service, said Morris County may not have felt the effects of a record-breaking summer because western areas of ...
Digging in
Indianapolis Star - United States... In the pipeline: The 42-inch-diameter underground steel pipeline system would carry between 1.5 ... "We're not out here trying to be secret; we're not out here ...
Underground explosion rattles downtown Waterbury
WTNH - New Haven,CT,USA
6, 2006 Updated 10:25 PM) _ Several underground explosions sent manhole covers into the ... The electrical explosion happened around 8:30 pm near Leavenworth Street ...
Study Finds Plenty of Carbon Dioxide Storage Capacity Underground ...
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
... Geologic sequestration refers to the process of permanent underground storage of carbon dioxide captured from sources such as coal-fired power plants, cement
Underground plan doesn't go over well
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... the owner of a single-family home or a commercial property would pay anywhere from $11,000 to $30,000 to connect into the underground system, officials of the ...
Underground power lines: Who will pay?
Miami Herald - FL,USA... Last year, the City Commission approved an ordinance that would require properties to hook up to underground utilities if they were available.
Part of power plant's transmission line could go underground
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA... serve a proposed hydroelectric power plant in the hills southwest of the lake calls for a segment of the line to be buried underground, federal administrators
E. Kentucky Miner Killed In Underground Rock Fall
WVLT - Knoxville,TN,USA Barbourville, KY (AP) -- An Eastern Kentucky miner is dead after an underground rock fall Friday afternoon. State officials say ...
Company fined $225,000 in deadly explosion
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada in a pipeline explosion that killed seven people in an Etobicoke strip mall ... They are charged with failing to properly locate an underground natural gas pipeline ...
Palm Springs RDA considers underground parking proposal
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA The developer behind a proposed mixed-use project in the south end of downtown Palm Springs is considering building an underground parking structure and .
Manufacturer Defends Air Packs As Safe
Houston Chronicle - United States... 1 Mine in January and after an explosion at Kentucky's Darby No ... NIOSH is considering changing the way it certifies air packs for use in underground mines and is ..
EPA Releases Draft Guidance on Underground Injection of Carbon ...Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA... WIRE)--The Environmental Protection Agency released guidance Monday suggesting guidelines for states to follow when permitting the underground injection of
Maze of underground gas lines ignites concern
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... A construction worker punched a 2-inch hole in a seamless steel, underground Atmos Energy transmission pipeline west of ... "After Wednesday's explosion
Pensacola Beach electrical goes underground
Gulf Breeze News - FL, USA
The single largest underground power line project in Gulf Power's history is nearly complete. Pensacola Beach residents and businesses ...
CERN Switches On Neutrino Beam To Gran Sasso
Science Daily (press release) - USA... Coordination between CERN, research centres and national laboratories is therefore more necessary ... sent from Fermilab near Chicago to a deep underground mine in ..
Student Explorers
Perry County News - Tell City,IN,USA
... the latest in a string of excellence-in-media awards, this year's club members are embarking on a research adventure that will take them deep underground. ...
Beijing Expands Strategic Underground City
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... existence of other underground cities and the froles they might play in case of a nuclear attack. According to a report released from the Research Office of ...
Henderson Mine's lab plan gets final tweaks
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
... choice for an underground lab known as the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, or DUSEL. In addition to the scientific research expected out
World's first 2-in-1 tunnel - SMART
Business Times - Malaysia - Malaysia
... Gamuda got acquainted with Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) technology when it took on the job to design and construct a 4.8km underground tunnel including two
~New train tunnel part of multimillion-dollar study
Examiner.com - USA... Peninsula commuter line underground to downtown from its current terminus at Townsend and 4th Street, near AT&T Park. Plans call for a 1.3-mile tunnel from 4th
Hurd takes detailed approach to renewable energy systems
Agri News - MN,USA... used. The windows provide light, cooling in the summer and heat in the winter. A board room doubles as a tornado shelter. The thick
September 2006
Parking study: Pismo should go underground
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria,CA,USA
A parking study was unveiled last week even as the city of Pismo Beach may discover it's too late to help build an underground parking structure on a dirt lot ...
Underground wires an option
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... Twenty-nine residences in neighborhoods just north of Scottsdale Fashion Square are being asked whether they’d like underground electrical service. ...
Sign the pipeline bill
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... of underground utilities and pipelines, with potentially disastrous results. He believes the Torlakson bill will help prevent another Walnut Creek explosion. ..
'FLAMES 15 FEET IN THE AIR'
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... the big blasts. Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said four to five manhole covers were "blown away from the underground explosion.".
Underground fire forces evacuations in downtown Philadelphia
International Herald Tribune - France
PHILADELPHIA An underground transformer fire forced evacuations at two downtown office buildings Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
School's new ball fields rest on underground reservoir
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... While some public parks and a private school in Southern California have previously installed underground reservoirs, local and state officials say the ...
Hole swallows truck, street closed
WKYC-TV - Cleveland,OH,USA
It was most likely an underground water main break that caused the road to give way in the area of East 90th Street and Holton Avenue. ...
New Power Cable Technology Launched at AEP's Bixby Station
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... power generation, transmission and distribution innovations out from the research lab into ... of cities, there is little room to expand underground cable networks ...
Going-to-the-Sun Road construction forces road closure
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
... crews have focused on four work zones between the west tunnel and the ... Underground utilities soon will be installed and work will continue for as long as the ...
He shaped Boston for half a century
Boston Globe - United States
... ``I was the chief engineer for the Dewey Square tunnel," says Rogers. ``It was the first piece of the interstate system to be put underground, and it's the ...
After pipeline deaths, bill a plea for safety
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA... of dangerous underground utilities when excavation work occurs near them. State safety officials blamed the Nov. 9, 2004, South Broadway explosion on workers ...
2 construction workers injured underground
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... seriously injured Thursday afternoon at a midtown Charlotte construction site when an inflatable bag malfunctioned in a sewer pipe about 10 feet underground.
Utility appeals rejection of underground pipeline
Eyewitness News - East Providence,RI,USA BARNSTABLE, Mass. Keyspan Energy is appealing a decision by the Cape Cod Commission to reject an underground pipeline. The utility ...
Problems Underground
Living on the Earth - Cambridge,MA,USA... He calls the thick new concrete walls of shaft 11"beautiful.". We touch down about 240 feet underground and stand in a concrete chamber.
Islanders consider change in underground wiring plan
Georgetown Times - Georgetown,SC,USA
Plans for underground wiring in the Town of Pawleys Island could be altered next month due to recent concerns voiced by island residents. ..
East Valley firefighters battle underground fire
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA... environment. There are no flames, but there is smoke and fire at the former Lawson landfill-the fire is burning underground. And ...
Natural gas explosion levels house
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States... Direct Boring was doing subcontracting work for AmerenUE, replacing underground cable, said ... He got about 100 feet away before seeing the explosion, he said
Disney's Underground Magic: "The Utilidors"
Mickey News (press release) - Clovis,CA,USA... From this "underground city" there are access points all around the Kingdom, even ... Most of these hidden entrances are behind unmarked doors and you can reach
Gables area wants to put utility lines underground
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA... the City Beautiful in 1996, now are also the first to officially request that they be taxed additionally to pay for the cost of putting utilities underground. ...
Below any Manhole Cover lies the Potential to Paralyze any ...
MediaSyndicate (press release) - USA
... relevant data. Metroguard Systems Inc. is a distributor of manhole cover locking systems for underground facility access control.
Gold or Just a Fever?
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
A 1930s prospector insisted that a Mojave peak hid an underground river flowing with the ore ... near the Las Vegas Country Club for a tour of a tunnel that miners ...
Eight miners emerge from smoky tunnel
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA... from a burning Siberian gold mine, as workers searched through smoke-filled tunnels hoping to find nine others still trapped hundreds of yards underground. ..
Bodies of all 50 miners recovered
CNN-IBN - New Delhi,India
DEATH CAUSE: The deaths were caused due to inhalation of carbon monoxide following an underground explosion. Dhanbad (Jharkhand): The ...
30 bodies recovered after Indian mine explosion
CBC News - Canada.. The miners were trapped about 200 metres underground after the explosion on Wednesday night at the mine in Bhatdih, about 150 kilometres northeast of Ranchi .
Future Be Warned: Keep Out!
Wired News - USA
... At that point, the underground site will be sealed and guarded for the next 100 years. ... lasted thousands of years, but it took us years of research to decipher ...
Fire traps 33 Russian miners underground
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
Moscow- Thirty-three Russian miners were trapped inside a coal pit in Siberia's Chita region Thursday after a fire broke out in the main shaft, news reports ..
“”Nearly 50 Percent of Residents in Hurricane States Expect to ...
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise — A survey released by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC ... propane marketers are able to provide homeowners with an underground tank that ...
Village wins power beauty parade
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK... Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in North Yorkshire is the first in Britain to have its overhead electricity lines hidden underground as part
Cities explore utilities cost
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USA
... including Flagler Beach -- formed a statewide consortium this spring, exchanging ideas and research through conference calls about the underground process. ...
A decade of Thibault on De Wetshof Estate
South African Wine News - South Africa
... A five-metre tunnel links the two buildings into an underground wood maturation cellar where Danie ages some of his top wines. Both .
1 Lane in Big Dig Tunnel to Open
ABC News - USA
... shoring system to allow us to open a lane in the tunnel and also ... to questions about the bolt systems any prospect of re-opening the underground roadway in a ..
BioTown's infrastructure opens up fuel alternatives
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
... In November, Reynolds will break ground on the new energy suite, which will house an anaerobic methane digester, a biomass gasification unit and a fast ...
Underground miner trapped in rock fall
Townsville Bulletin - Northern Australia,Australia
A MINER was trapped more than 400 metres underground after a rock fall at the George Fisher mine in Mount Isa yesterday afternoon.
Hydro, wind account for just 55pc of power - SNZ
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... June 2005 quarter, with geothermal up 13.8 per cent and gas generation up 6.3 per cent, while coal-fired generation fell 6.4 per cent. Electricity prices for ...
X-ray vision to save water
NEWS.com.au - Australia
SCIENTISTS at Melbourne's Monash University say they have created a device, called a Testau, that monitors water pipeline corrosion deep underground.
Tunnels shed light on city's dark past
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... Numerous other routes lie hidden and largely forgotten beneath the city streets ... Waverley Station which were once part of the city's Victorian underground railway ...
The mystery death, a town in uproar and a $1bn UK mines deal
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... which will be pumped out of the mine to get to the coal may result in drying up underground aquifers. Roger Moody, of the firm Nostramo Research, an expert on
MYSTERY PLAGUE HITS GEORGIA
Free Market News Network - Pompano Beach,FL,USA
A mysterious disease seems to be striking a region in Georgia, one that has local scientists and health officials both baffled and alarmed. ...
’Survivor of Sago disaster, others sue bosses for miners deaths
The Militant - New York,NY,USA
... the McCloy suit argues that the owners had not insured proper installation of arrestors to prevent a lightning strike from triggering an underground explosion.
Pipeline bill offers protection
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... Torlakson held after the Walnut Creek disaster that strikes of underground utilities during ... The explosion killed Miguel Reyes, 43; Tae Chin Im, 47; Javier Ramos ...
Underground drainage plan gains momentum
Hindu - Chennai,India
A proposal for an underground sewerage system, the lack of which has been cited as the cause for filthy, waterlogged roads and colonies in the region, has been ...
August 2006
IDF Destroys Major Hezbollah Border Base
All Headline News - USA
Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - Israeli forces uncovered and destroyed a massive Hezbollah underground bunker less than a quarter mile from Israel's north-western ...
New Solar Hybrid Technology to Produce Drinking Water
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA Hirrlingen, Germany [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Using a solar hybrid technology, the final development of a process that can generate drinking water from the ...
Developers back out of underground parking
Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK
... Nick Grossman, chairman of North St Margarets residents' association explained: "They said the cars would be underground and that the public would be able to ...
Underground power cabling project delayed
Hindu - Chennai,India
The company got Rs. 230 crores for laying 350 kilometres of underground cables. GET THEM UNDERGROUND: A maze of wires above the road in Secunderabad. ...
‘’A hole lot of back yard trouble
Nanton News - Nanton,Alberta,Canada
... said. “And some people said it might be an old root cellar, but I don’t know why a root cellar would be that far down.”. Mary
Mine explosion survivor, families sue mine owner and five other ...
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... recommended that the state require the roughly 150 West Virginia underground coal mines ... not pinpoint the cause of the explosion, saying more research is needed
Hidden electrical line shocks children at park
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA By Pat Gillespie. A group of children were shocked Thursday night by an underground wire while playing football at Estero Community Park. ...
Weird science - boffin trades pop for a big bang
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia... metres under the surface of France and Switzerland," Cox says. "If you're in it, the tunnel's as big as an underground train tunnel.".
Gigantic underground storage cavern for oil
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany... where the construction and use of a wide range of underground facilities are ... Norwegian engineers have been involved in a number of overseas tunnel projects. ...
Power line burns electrician
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA... Town police Sgt. Kevin Keefe said the rod struck a high-voltage underground power line, sending about 13,000 volts of electricity through the man’s body. ...
China mine accidents trap 19 underground
Reuters - USA... Rescuers are attempting to dig a tunnel to free the trapped men, Xinhua ... coal mining industry and survival odds for miners trapped underground are usually low.
Keeping oil underground
Engineer Online - London,UK
Construction begins this month in Singapore of a gigantic underground storage cavern ... SINTEF Building Research has previously been engaged as a consultant on ...
Scottish Water move a mountain to improve supplies. .now they're ...
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK... are putting all the dirt back again so the giant tanks can be hidden from view. ... People really get a sense of the scale when they walk into the underground tanks ...
ComEd seeks answers on outage
Pioneer Press Online - Glenview,IL,USA... 2 fire and explosion in a vault that initially knocked out power to 38 downtown businesses, Village Hall and the Glencoe ... "When an (underground conduit) fire ...
Huge underground gas storage plan
BBC News - UK... It said ten caverns could be built 2km underground by 2012 to store 420 million cubic metres of gas, about the amount used in the UK on a cold day. ...
Airport's fuel farm falters on fire system
Miami Herald - FL,USA... It was believed that an explosion and fire at the fuel farm could destroy nearby offices on the ... Underground Construction was the low bidder at $4.4 million.
Underground fire delays flights at Brussels International Airport ...
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
An underground fire that broke out at Brussels International Airport on Wednesday forced closure of one of the airport's runways, but air traffic had returned ...
Vast underground reservoir ensures clean water for 200 years
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Ross Finnie, the environment minister, was among the first to witness the progress of the underground water tank at Milngavie, which will safeguard Glasgow's ...
Workers Buried Underground in Sofia Construction Collapse
Sofia News Agency - Bulgaria
... men were apparently digging for the sewage of a construction in the capital's Gorublyane district, when the land sunk in and they found themselves underground.
Cause Of Home Explosion Revealed
WPXI.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
An 8-inch underground natural gas line near the home was leaking. The flammable gas reportedly seeped into Henry Redepenning's house through a floor drain. ...
Pressure launches manhole covers on Florida Grove Road
New Brunswick Home News Tribune - New Brunswick,NJ,USA... pressure source ripped through a main line of an underground sewer system. ... Gorman of the Woodbridge Police Department said the small explosion causes minor ...
Serious injuries increase along with deaths in mines
The Militant - New York,NY,USA
... on the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border, three miners were injured July 20 in a flash fire caused by a methane explosion when they were welding underground.
Anaheim Hills park has a secret spark
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA By DIANE REED. The nation's first underground electrical switching station is completely concealed beneath the park, on a two-acre site at 8100 Monte Vista Rd. ...
Investigators say gas leak caused Pa. house explosion
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA- A leak in an underground gas line caused an explosion that leveled a house and seriously injured a man who lived there, state police said.
Lack of action on mine-water pollution could cause environmental ...
Mining Weekly - Gardenview,Eastern Cape,South Africa... the reduction of the volume of water pumped from underground and the ... The Water Research Commission's (WRC's) Meiring du Plessis gave special mention to the ...
Improving control of mine gas
Ferret - Australia... gas produced by mining can be a major problem, but CSIRO’s research is helping ... A series of roadways is then developed to allow underground access for mining
The desert's ultimate resource
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA... Most of it is hidden from sight, 350 feet below ground in the Coachella ... they make up one of three replenishment points for the giant underground reservoir. ...
Tunnel's air monitors upgraded
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA... underground chamber where few people ever go, Bray said. Even though nobody works in the echoing chamber, powerful computers beneath the Leif Erickson tunnel ...
Mayor goes 550ft underground
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates... journalists then boarded a cage-like elevator that took him underground, where he boarded a narrow rail car and took a 15-minute ride to the end of the tunnel
Edison Officials Shed Little Light on Downtown Power Shortage
The Lookout News - Santa Monica,CA,USA... power vaults, rate hikes and planned outages are all Edison officials can promise Downtown businesses nearly two weeks after an underground explosion left many ..
Israeli town living underground
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... The few thousand people who remain in this town, normally home to 24,000, sit underground and listen to the never-ending sound of Hezbollah rockets landing and ...
Rome looking at underground utility lines
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA ROME - City officials have been looking at options to put utility lines underground in certain areas of the city, focusing mainly on the downtown area and new ...
Underground clay wedge causes frost heave on Minerva Street
Huntsville Forester - Ontario, Canada
The Town is glad they didn’t pave Minerva Street during last fall’s renovations to the Algonquin Theatre, having discovered that an underground clay wedge ...
Central city underground cable TV installation runs amuck
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh city,Vietnam A Ministry of Culture approved project to install underground cable TV lines in Thua Thien-Hue has ground to a halt, as zoning and other regulations have yet
EPA sees no underground water contamination in Changhua
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said that tests by the agency shows no signs that the underground water at several townships in Changhua ...
Bloomberg Goes Underground For Huge Water Tunnel Excavation
WNBC - New York,NY,USA
... He then boarded a cage-like elevator that took him underground, past the city's sewer mains, which are typically 3 to 15 feet below street level, and its web ...
Miner's luck ran out deep underground
Hawkesbury Gazette - Hawkesbury,New South Wales,Australia
... The 39-year-old had been deep underground, about eight kilometres from the mine entrance, collecting oil samples when it is believed a high-pressure hydraulic ...
Siemens wins tender for new Budapest underground line
Caboodle.hu - Budapest,Hungary
... engineering company Siemens has won a tender to build the electrical network along the first stretch of Budapest's planned fourth underground line between ...
Running both business and town
Aurora - Labrador City,Newfoundland,Canada... Ten miles of carved out tunnel 975 feet below the Labrador Plateau caters to the largest underground power station in the world producing 5,428,500 KW—enough ...
A gigantic bore . . .
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... "When they're underground they'll be underground for the full ... Once a tunnel is built it tends to last for more than a century without requiring much maintenance ...
Still working 133 years later
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA... They were abandoned when the tunnel collapsed in the 1960s although Leahy said there are ... on the shore of Marlette and a new pipe laid underground from Marlette ...
Mining for gold
Record-Searchlight (subscription) - Redding,CA,USA... miners tapped into the Washington vein by descending a 600-foot tunnel and recovering ... arsenic, were being transported by a pipeline to an underground area for ...
DNR fined for water violations at Soudan mine state park
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA.. Department of Natural Resources will pay more than $100,000 in penalties for alleged wastewater permit violations at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park. ...
Why not go
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States... "The cost to provide underground service would be literally hundreds of dollars a month. It would triple or quadruple the price of electricity.".
Blast causes brief outage
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA... "You could see the smoke coming out and the dirt flying up and out of the ground.". The force of the underground explosion also blew the cover off a manhole. ...
Proposals to Bury UK's Radioactive Waste Should be Acted on ...
Azom.com - USA... to bury the UK's existing radioactive waste deep underground should be acted on urgently and not delayed by calls for more scientific research said the Royal
Residents question second right-of-way for power lines
South Delta Leader - Tsawwassen,British Columbia,Canada
... It should not have been hidden.”. ... are subject to question whether or not they are valid agreements, and that BC Hydro doesn’t own the underground rights for ...
UPDATE 2-Conn. Light cuts power to 5,000 in Stamford due to heat
Reuters - USA
... But the Northeast Utilities (NU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) subsidiary said two damaged ... said CL&P cut the power to limit damage to underground power lines as ...
Tunnel builder floats below water
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
THE company building Brisbane's massive underground tunnel made a market debut at a discount to its issue price yesterday but stressed that it was a long-term ...
Big Dig Memo Called A Fake
CBS News - USA
(AP) The construction company that built the underground freeway tunnel to the international airport where a motorist was killed by falling concrete panels on ...
Viaduct retrofit still an option
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... and two other lawmakers said they opposed the tunnel-replacement proposal ... The report said a retrofit wouldn't strengthen the underground footings supporting the ...
Off to Australia to learn about underground water
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
IPOH: The Raja Muda of Perak, Raja Nazrin Shah, will lead a delegation to Australia this month to learn more about underground water mining. ...
Explosion causes power outage, road closures
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA... without power this afternoon, after an underground power line exploded near the intersection of 3rd Street West and Virginia Avenue. The explosion was reported ...
Gas leak contained within an hour
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA... at the southeast corner -- may have traveled through the underground sewer pipes. ... did not have the same consequences as the Salem Street explosion because the ...
'Time bomb' seals leave miners at risk, official says
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... been three mining accidents, all of them underground explosions, that resulted in mass casualties. Thirteen miners were killed in an explosion in Brookville ...
Three Bridge-Like Structures Possible for Electric Line Project
Fairfield Citizen-News - Fairfield,CT,USA... In Fairfield, the lines will be underground on Post Road in Fairfield and Pequot ... The utility bridges would look like "an above-ground tunnel, like a bridge ...
Panel urges tunnel for Metro extension
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA... to conclude that our findings suggest strong consideration of the tunnel alternative.". Thanks to new tunneling technology, the underground rail would not ...
Trapped Methane Gas Under Paved-Over Dump Site Could Trigger Blast
All Headline News - USA... who informed him that the huge amounts of methane trapped underground could explode ... and allow them to have cancer or just die suddenly in a methane explosion.".
Simulaors Train Future Coal Miners
Chief Engineer - Crestwood,IL,USA
... a member of a mine safety task force assembled after an explosion at the Sago mine killed 12 miners in January. There are about 15,500 underground and surface ...
The Globe Theatre goes underground
Odessa American - Odessa,TX,USA
Scene: A subterranean tunnel links underground rooms, and superstitions prevent visitors from speaking certain words. Men and women sing the scales. ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory Vital Alert Technologies Inc.
CCNMatthews (press release) - Toronto,ON,Canada... Funding for Underground Radio came from the US Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technology and from Laboratory Directed Research and Development
THE debate over whether Cumbria should house an underground ...
News & Star - Carlisle,Cumbria,UK
... The idea of an underground repository – or geological disposal as the committee ... harder rocks near Calderbridge, serviced by a two-mile tunnel from Sellafield ...
July 2006
The only place for nuclear waste . . . 1 km underground
Times Online - UK
By Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter. STORAGE vaults dug thousands of feet underground are the best place to dump nuclear waste, government advisers have said. ...
Track cleared after landslide
BBC News - UK
... normally. London Underground (LU) said all passengers were led off the train onto the platform at Boston Manor within 15 minutes.
Why not put parking facilities underground?
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
Instead of creating surface lots for off-street parking, why hasn't anyone thought about making the developers put parking for their buildings under the ...
Labor, business leaders back power line
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA... of urban areas, although large sections would be buried underground in Ramona and ... sciences industry that employs 40,000 people in the research, development and ...
How oversight failed in underground project
Seattle Times - United States
... nearly complete. But one tunnel is being treated as a possible crime scene after a ceiling collapse killed a motorist. A contractor ...
Cavico Corporation Completes USD $20 Million Ban Ve Underground ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... roads, mines and urban buildings throughout Vietnam and the Pacific Rim, today announced that it has completed the Ban Ve Underground Tunnel Project two months ...
Underground station in Manhattan opposed
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA... track tunnel says the project will waste $1.6 billion -- and endanger lives in case of terrorist attack -- by building an unnecessary and dangerous underground .
Randgold Resources CEO Bristow promises 'new-world underground ...
Mining Weekly - Gardenview,Eastern Cape,South Africa
A “new-world underground mining model” is promised by Randgold Resources CEO Dr Mark Bristow, who predicts a shift away from opencast mining for both ...
City's new parks plan calls for 'greenways'
Muskegon Chronicle - Muskegon,MI,USA
... Instead of building the usual underground storm sewer system, his department suggested preserving ... Making improvements at Hidden Cove Park along Seaway Drive. ...
Sewer repair coming, but it will cost us Indianapolis Star - United States
... held until it can be treated. Construction of that tunnel, about 200 feet underground, will begin in 2010 and be completed by 2025.
Panasonic Wins Order for Tunnel Electrostatic Precipitator (Air ...
noticias.info (press release) - Spain
... the installation of a similar system in the Hai Van Tunnel in Vietnam. ... making it ideal for improving internal and external environment of underground tunnels. ...
Underground mine collapse closes roadway
Martins Ferry Times Leader - Martins Ferry,OH,USA
PART OF a state highway in Belmont County will be closed for the next few months after an underground mine collapsed over the weekend. ...
Crews work through wee hours to figure out tunnel repairs
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... officials say the crews were testing reinforcement methods for the tunnel, where 12 ... of the city's "Big Dig" project, which put an elevated highway underground.
Tunnel vision
Engineer Online - London,UK
London Underground is to trial a digital imaging system that monitors the movement of train tunnel walls. A full prototype of the ...
Power line decision shocks residents
South Delta Leader - Tsawwassen,British Columbia,Canada
... on July 7 came after nearly two years of consultation and research by TRAHVOL ... right-of-way, due to lack of support for placing them underground through the area ...
Church Hill Tunnel excavation faces added challenges
Richmond.com - Richmond,VA,USA
... Upon siphoning the water from the underground tunnel, it is possible the smokestack of the locomotive will emerge and stick up through the silt.
Politics Have Kept Costly Big Dig Afloat
Washington Post - United States
... the Big Dig, formally known as the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project ... to slice through Boston, created a series of tunnels to bring traffic underground. ...
Tunnel builders get nine years
Globe and Mail - Canada
VANCOUVER -- It cost $16,000 for lumber to build an underground tunnel between Canada and the United States and 90 kilograms of marijuana were transported ...
Propane leak cause of fatal blast
Appleton Post Crescent - WI, USA
... public utilities such as electrical lines and natural gas lines, underground propane gas ... that a severed propane line was the cause of an explosion Monday that ...
Officials harden New York-area tunnels
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA... Experts are skeptical that a bomb small enough to be hidden in a ... The complicated geography of Manhattan's underground infrastructure makes it difficult to say ..
Mayor down on underground transit
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA... Hannemann said he prefers an above-ground route for a rail transit system, especially in light of a fatality this week in a Boston underground highway tunnel. ...
PNM, county clash over underground power lines
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA By | The New Mexican. A prohibition on above-ground power lines for part of an electricity-distribution-and-transmission project
China Preparing To Build Underground Oil Storage Facility
Easy Bourse (Communiqués de presse) - Paris,France
BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- China is starting preparatory work on building a huge underground oil storage facility, as part of its plans to build strategic oil
Innovative approach used to mine Greybull oil field
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... Way, way, way down on the list -- if at all -- is a miner, wearing a hard-hat with a lamp that illuminates an underground tunnel -- a miner who has to drill up ...
New Manikata road could cut through aquifer
Malta Today - San Gwann,Malta
... s underground water sources. According to the MRA, the Transport Authority was considering a number of routes, one of which, envisaged the drilling of a tunnel ...
High risk from sea to sea
Calgary Sun - Canada
... off today in the tunnels of Toronto's two older subway lines, the underground ventilation system ... "But should there be an explosion in a tunnel, should there be ...
Seeing green in 'brown' energy
International Herald Tribune - France
... Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to transport gas from a big digester that Microgy, a digester manufacturer, is building in California. ...
Farmers to benefit from new energy standards
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA... The state Department of Agriculture supports the change because it is an incentive for more farmers to invest in a manure digester, Mike Pechart, policy ...
Explosion In Latrobe Causes Power Outage
KDKA - Pittsburg,PA,USA
Latrobe Fire Chief John Brasile told KDKA’s Mary Berecky that there was an underground explosion that caused a transformer to blow. ...
Tests reveal potential problems with mine air packs
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... his crew failed after the Jan. 2 explosion trapped them underground. Eleven of his co-workers died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Chandigarh cable operators asked not to use electricity poles
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK... Cable operators in the city have been asked to remove their TV cables from electricity poles within three weeks starting Friday and instead lay them underground ..
Black box shows crash train going twice the speed limit
Scotsman - United Kingdom
THE underground train which crashed in Spain this week killing 41 people was ... Valencia's authorities have discounted a tunnel collapse or a ruptured wheel as ...
News briefs from Southern California
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... communications grid after thieves walked off with some 50 feet of underground copper wire ... surprised to see the 20-foot-wide, 160-foot-long tunnel is already ...
June 2006
Ekati proceeding with $250M underground mining phase
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
EDMONTON - BHP Billiton has given the green light to the latest $250-million US underground mining phase at the Ekati diamond mine, 300 kilometres northeast of .
Other underground utilities fall prey to water main break, repair ...
Ledger Independent - Maysville,KY,USA By MISTY MAYNARD Staff Writer. Local firms struggled to conduct business as usual Wednesday morning as work crews from the City of ...
Nitish Inaugurates Underground Cabling Work in Patna
Patna Daily - India
To mark the beginning of the removal of electrical cables hanging from the mid air and putting them underground in an attempt to give the state capital a newer ...
Drilling down
Indianapolis Star - United States
... diameter and more than a mile long. The work will not interrupt the operation of the runway. The tunnel will be 22 feet underground.
A design for the high life
The Observer - UK
... The greatest feature is the underground 'bathrobe' tunnel that links the hotel with the amazing new Merano Thermal Baths, a huge spa complex for which Thun has ...
Thames Water boss in at the deep end
The Sunday Times - UK
... laying new pipes is the best way of stopping leaks, 98% of which are underground. ... On his wish list are a £2 billion tideway tunnel to stop sewage running into
Water company engineers are delving further underground to reach ...
Surrey Advertiser - Surrey,England,UK
... also announced it was lowering the borehole at the Elmer treatment works, Hawks Hill, Fetcham, in order to access hard to reach underground water supplies.
HCMC receives proposals for underground parking lot
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh city,Vietnam
Three investors submitted plans to build underground parking lots at various locations in district 1 to Ho Chi Minh City authorities Friday. ...
Worker Injured In Manhole Cover Explosion
NY1 - NY,USA
... Thursday morning. An underground explosion caused the manhole cover to fly 4 stories up and land on scaffolding. The blast also ...
Six Maintenance Workers Poisoned in Gas Leakage
CRI - Beijing,China
... The six workers were making repairs at an underground gas pipe site in downtown ... Firefighters used water to dilute gas in the air to prevent an explosion. ...
.Thieves Targeting Copper I & M Cables
WANE - Ft Wayne,IN,USA
... Thieves in South Bend caused a small explosion this week after cutting some wires in an underground junction box. They fled the ...
Big Dig bailing out tunnels
Boston Globe - United States
... To estimate water flowing into the tunnel, the Globe used a breakdown the ... pumping volumes for the Interstate 93 tunnels by the six underground stations used by ...
Asia's longest road tunnel opens
Kazinform - Astana,Kazakhstan
ASTANA. June 17, 2006. KAZINFORM. The longest underground road tunnel in Asia, and the 5th longest in the world, has opened to traffic in Taiwan. ...
Simulators train future coal miners about underground dangers
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... The other underground simulator is a roof-bolting device that teaches how to drive ... and a member of a safety task force assembled after an explosion at the Sago ...
Going underground an option for crossing the Firth of Forth
Scotsman - United Kingdom
THE idea of building a tunnel under the Firth of Forth is to be investigated by Scottish Executive-appointed experts studying the future of transport links ...
Tube passengers treated after 800 trapped underground
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Twelve Tube passengers had to be treated by the ambulance service after hundreds of commuters were trapped underground for up to two hours. ...
New Orleans' Water Problems Are Underground, Too
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... NEW ORLEANS — Underground cracks and leaks in the city's water system due to Hurricane Katrina cause the loss of 80 million to 100 million gallons of potable ...
£Pylons to go underground in 4m removal programme
Property Executive Magazine - Glasgow,UK
A run of seven electricity pylons and overhead cables at Braehead, Renfrew Riverside, Glasgow is being demolished and routed underground in a £4m programme ...
Council Shelves Plan For Underground Utility District
Leesburg Today - Leesburg,VA,USA
Jun 15, 2006 -- Leesburg’s plan to dedicate the historic district as an underground utility distribution area has been sidelined, a request Councilwoman ...
China needs more underground storage sites for natural gas - CNPC
Forbes - USA
BEIJING (AFX) - China must construct underground gas storage reservoirs on a large scale to guarantee a safe and steady supply of natural gas, said Liu Hequn ...
SV power lines may go underground
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide - Ketchum,ID,USA
... The Sun Valley City Council heard comments during a special meeting Monday, June 12, from proponents for placing power lines underground along Juniper Road in ...
Power line debate heats up in Richmond
Centreville Times - Centreville,VA,USA
... Most of the members of the public demanded that Dominion put the lines underground to save property values and the scenic beauty of rural Loudoun. ...
Downtown Shut Down After Fire
Westport-News - Westport,CT,USA
... shut down for hours after an electrical fire occurred underground Friday morning ... received numerous calls from residents reporting that an explosion had occurred ...
No More Water for Chatham and Effingham
WSAV-TV - Savannah,GA,USA
... Think of the aquifer as a big underground tank full of water. ... Division, that is causing salt water to be sucked through the walls of the tunnel and invade the ...
Bush signs bill overhauling mine safety
CNN - USA
... The sole survivor of the Sago explosion, Randal McCloy, and his wife, Anna ... It requires more oxygen supplies underground, stronger seals on abandoned mine shafts ...
Water seepage triggers blast at Nehru stadium
Navhind Times - Panjim,India
... were found to be running parallel to the drainage pipes underground and there was always a risk of water seeping into these cables and causing an explosion. ...
Underground Fire Continues to Burn in Patterson
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
Patterson firefighters are working 'round the clock to monitor a smoldering marsh fire that has been burning for more than three weeks.
Underground Explosion Darkens Post Road East Businesses
Westport Now - Westport,CT,USA
... precaution. Southern Connecticut Gas Co. workers also responded but said there were no problems with their underground lines. First ...
Water leaking faster than city is using it
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... officials are scrambling to plug an untold number of underground leaks, cracks ... detectors are designed to sense vibrations and pinpoint leaks hidden beneath the ...
Emergency mine shelter
Beckley Register-Herald (subscription) - Beckley,WV,USA
... The mine refuge shelter would not protect miners from an explosion, but would ... carbon monoxide known to build up in the labyrinths of underground installations. ...
Exploring Rochester's deep tunnel system
WROC - Rochester,NY,USA
... a deep rock tunnel system that conveys all surface waste water through the City of Rochester.". As daylight disappeared we drove deep underground, getting an up ...
Keep noises out
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
... However, your best bet is an earth berm between the house and the highway. An earth berm is simply a long, narrow mound of earth ...
NEXANS COMPLETES ELIA'S UNDERGROUND HIGH VOLTAGE LINK ON THE ...
NextNews (Communiqués de presse) - Paris,France
... Belgium's transmissions system operator, to create a new 33 km underground 150 kV ... Ghent canal, this was achieved by using an existing access tunnel owned by ...
Peachtree Boulevard utilities going down under
TheStorygroup.com - GA,USA
... several weeks now, but the decision on taking the power lines underground was a ... take the traffic on Piedmont under Peachtree Road through a tunnel to alleviate ...
The first tunnel will measure almost 900 metres and will take ten ...
Sur - Spain
Work finally started on the underground railway in the city of Malaga last ... by the construction company Metro Malaga for the start of work on the first tunnel. ...
Millions of gallons of water seeping away
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA... it vanish underground. St. Martin said S&WB crews have repaired more than | 
