Remediation Market News for October 2010

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SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER

October 2010 

No. 145

Table of Contents

BUSINESS

§  Opportunity to Test In-Situ Chemical Oxidation Techniques for Gas Station Sites

SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES

§  New Book “In Situ Remediation of Chlorinated Solvent Plumes” a Must-Have for Site Remediation Professionals

§  British Company Offers Franchises to Transform Fly Ash into Valuable Minerals

AROUND THE WORLD

§  Austria – Steel Producer Voestalpine Stahl to Remediate Site with EU Grant

§  Canada – 5 Wing Goose Bay Air Force Base Undergoes Cleanup

§  Canada – Cleanup of Oil Sands Tailing Ponds in Alberta Could Cost up to $15 Billion

§  China – U.S. and China to Continue Collaboration on Prevention, Management of Pollution, Enforcement of Environmental Laws

§  France – PCBs Continue to Contaminate Waterways

INDUSTRY NEWS

§  GM to Pay $773 Million for Cleanup of Its Abandoned Plant Sites

§  Seven New Sites Added to the Superfund National Priorities List, Nine New Sites Proposed for Addition

§  Newtown Creek in New York City Designated a Superfund Site

§  Research Continues Regarding Amount of Oil Remaining in Gulf Following BP Spill

COMPANY NEWS

§  USACE Honolulu District Awards Contracts to Engineering/Remediation Resources Group

§  Green Processing Technologies Forms JV with Canada’s CREEnergy Oil & Gas Co. to Remediate Oil Sands Mining Tailings Ponds

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Bob McIlvaine

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