Hydraulic Equipment Oil Tanks
Four residents are appealing the Luzerne County Zoning Hearing Board's Aug. 3 decision to allow Encana Oil & Gas USA Inc. conditional use to drill 10 natural gas wells in Lake and Fairmount townships and build a natural gas processing facility in Lake Township.
Neil E. Turner of Harveys Lake, Joan P. Schooley of Dallas Township, John Nowak Sr. of Lake Township, and Nicole H. Karr of Fairmount Township filed the appeal in Luzerne County court Thursday. Its basis is that the board exceeded its powers and scope of authority by granting Encana permission for uses for which the company didn't specifically ask.
The appellants' attorney, P. Timothy Kelly, could not be reached after office hours for comment. "Since I have not yet seen the details of the appeal to which you refer, I am unable to provide any comment other than to note that individuals certainly have the right to appeal the decisions of a Zoning Hearing Board to the Court of Common Pleas," zoning hearing board Chairman Larry Newman stated in an e-mail.
Encana applied to the county's zoning hearing board on June 25 for a special exception to drill two natural gas wells and place hydraulic fracturing water storage tanks and six personnel trailers on a property owned by William Kent off Route 118 in Fairmount Township, then place two permanent wellheads at the site.
The average airline passenger knows little about the tangles of procedure, technology and bureaucracy involved in the daily operations of a commercial airline. And for the most part, ignorance is bliss. After all, if getting from point A to point B as safely as possible is your main concern, you can rest assured that the U.S. commercial aviation system is among the safest in the world (your chances of dying in an airplane crash in the U.S. is calculated to be one in 13 million). But when it comes to the air you breathe onboard, the coffee you drink and the potentially very tired pilots flying your plane, there are some things the airlines prefer to keep to themselves.
Along with inadequate training, pilot fatigue was a factor during the investigation of the catastrophic Buffalo, N.Y., accident in February 2009, when a Continental Connection flight operated by Colgan Air crashed, killing all 49 people onboard and one on the ground. Pilots and crew will tell you that reporting to work after limited sleep and long on-duty hours is an all too common occurrence in the airline industry.
Under current FAA rules, pilots can be scheduled to be on duty for up to 16 hours, eight of which can be flying hours. "On many occasions, I have had a 14-hour day with eight hours 'rest', followed by another 14- or 15-hour day," says the captain.
Coffee and tea served in-flight are made from water pumped into the airplane's holding tanks by municipal sources at airports around the country. In effect, water from many different cities and sources mixes together in these tanks as the planes refill upon landing at new airports. Most passengers are unaware that the water used to make their coffee (even that highly touted Starbucks brew) is the same stuff that comes out of the lavatory sinks.
Five Things Airlines Don't Want You to Know - AOL Travel News
North America’s fleet of wind turbines face some of the most demanding operating conditions on earth, with units expected to operate in everything from the brutal cold of a January day in North Dakota to the blistering, dusty heat of an August day in Texas.
Extremes of hot and cold, not to mention frequent changes in pitch and yaw as the winds shift, put enormous strain on operating units, in particular bearings and gearboxes, a wind turbine’s Achilles heel. What’s more, many wind farms are not easily accessible along ridge lines and other remote locations. And once on site maintenance workers face the prospect of ascending a couple of hundred feet to reach the nacelle and begin work.
It’s almost an understatement to say that lubrication issues reach a level of complexity almost a magnitude of order greater than in a conventional fossil-fired generating unit.
It’s almost an understatement to say that lubrication issues reach a level of complexity almost a magnitude of order greater than in a conventional fossil-fired generating unit. “Lubrication affects the bottom line and an operator’s ability to produce electricity on a profitable level,” said Travil Lail, Americas Industrial Marketing Advisor for ExxonMobil.
Proper Lubrication is Key to Wind Turbine Longevity - Power-Gen Worldwide
A view of the MSC Chitra which started listing and spilling oil off the Mumbai coast after colliding with another cargo vessel on August 7, 2010.
Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today said the authorities had drawn up an action plan to clear the channel leading to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port of the containers that had fallen from merchant vessel MSC Chitra after it collided with another cargo ship off Mumbai last Saturday and caused an oil spill.
Meanwhile, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said in Mumbai that the oil spill, which was causing serious concern for the authorities in Mumbai and neighbouring areas along the coastline, had stopped.
Meanwhile, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said in Mumbai that the oil spill, which was causing serious concern for the authorities in Mumbai and neighbouring areas along the coastline, had stopped. "There is no further leakage of oil observed from the MSC Chitra. One Coast Guard ship is monitoring the situation in the area," a press release from the ICG said.
Action plan to clear JNPT channel of fallen containers from listing ship - NetIndian
North America’s fleet of wind turbines face some of the most demanding operating conditions on earth, with units expected to operate in everything from the brutal cold of a January day in North Dakota to the blistering, dusty heat of an August day in Texas.
Extremes of hot and cold, not to mention frequent changes in pitch and yaw as the winds shift, put enormous strain on operating units, in particular bearings and gearboxes, a wind turbine’s Achilles heel. What’s more, many wind farms are not easily accessible along ridge lines and other remote locations. And once on site maintenance workers face the prospect of ascending a couple of hundred feet to reach the nacelle and begin work.
It’s almost an understatement to say that lubrication issues reach a level of complexity almost a magnitude of order greater than in a conventional fossil-fired generating unit.
It’s almost an understatement to say that lubrication issues reach a level of complexity almost a magnitude of order greater than in a conventional fossil-fired generating unit. “Lubrication affects the bottom line and an operator’s ability to produce electricity on a profitable level,” said Travil Lail, Americas Industrial Marketing Advisor for ExxonMobil.
Proper Lubrication is Key to Wind Turbine Longevity - PennEnergy Petroleum Products (press release)
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