Philippines to Deploy Subsea ROV to Pinpoint Location of Stricken Tanker
.because of the weather. If sea conditions are bad, it is also unsafe for our contractors to work," Rodrigo Bella, vice president of Harbor Star, told the media briefing.The two contractors would shoulder all expenses initially, including paying residents hired for cleanup jobs, Dolor said.The national government has also pledged to hire locals under a scheme to assist those whose livelihood has been affected by temporary fishing and swimming bans in affected areas. (Reuters - Reporting by Enrico Dela CruzEditing by Ed Davies
Indonesia Processing Requests for Deep-sea Mining Waste Disposal
from nickel ore, and China’s Tsingshan Group, GEM Co Ltd and partners are doing likewise in Morowali on Sulawesi Island.Reuters could not reach Tsingshan or GEM for comment on Sunday. Calls to Harita went unanswered.Burhanuddin said provincial governors have issued permits, dependent on the national government approving the governors’ requests to revise their spatial planning jurisdictions to include deep-sea pipes for mining waste, or tailings.He said the requests are under consideration by the maritime and fishery ministry and the environment ministry.Burhanuddin said oceans around Obi Island
Voices: Professor Cui Weicheng
approach to solving the basic start-up funding problem is likely the first in the Chinese experience, using government-private-public partnerships seen in other parts of the world. He travels extensively and spends many hours meeting with potential and current sponsors from academia, the Chinese national government, the Shanghai government, and private investors, both foreign and domestic.Over the course of his career, Professor Cui was project leader and first deputy chief designer of the 7,000m Jiaolong three-man submersible (HOV), now operated by the National Deep Sea Center, State Oceanic Administration
Solomon Islands Capital Needs to relocate to Combat Tsunami
of a tsunami warning. The Honourable Premier continued, “The project team has identified practical steps that are within our means to adapt to natural hazard risks, especially tsunami, which is of great concern to our people”. The project is now being hailed by the Solomon Islands National Government as a best practice model for natural hazard resilience planning in other provinces across the Solomon Islands and more broadly across the Pacific region.
Oil Holds around $110
background and maybe Ukraine as well as South Sudan," said Christopher Bellew, oil futures broker at Jefferies Bache. In South Sudan, the capital of the main oil-producing Upper Nile region, Malakal, remains divided between the army and rebels, government officials say. On Saturday, the national government over-ruled Upper Nile state's plan to partially shut down oil production and evacuate foreign workers after the rebel offensive. A petroleum ministry official said South Sudan's oil production had fallen to about 170,000 bpd even before the rebel strike on Malakal, a drop of around a third
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