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Associated General Contractors Say Biden Policies Adding to US Infrastructure Crisis
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The civil construction infrastructure sector is looking at a mass exodus of construction workers, with the Brookings Institute forecasting a yearly exit from the industry at 1.5 million workers per year, every year, over the next decade according to a June 16, 2020 article by Construction Equipment Guide correspondent…
Gates and Buffet Going Nuclear in Wyoming: That’s Good News For Local Miners
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“Wyoming is both a top coal mining and top uranium mining state, and the reactor would use uranium from “in situ” mines that extract heavy metal from networks of water wells on the High Plains, officials said.” – AP Press Release at The Epoch Times, NTD, stormfront.org, and many…
Fitch Solutions Report Pegs Fiscal Year 2021-2022 as an “Exceptional Year of Earnings” for Miners
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With the disruptions of the Covid 19 shutdowns in the mining industry through the 2019-2020 period behind us, global miners can count on continued “sky-high” profits in the fiscal year 2021-2022. That’s according to a new report from the investment risk research and global market analysis firm, Fitch Solutions.…
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Pipelines, Politics, and the Construction Materials Price Spikes
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Thanks to the current White House resident, the US construction industry is rolling through a perfect storm of construction material price spikes that some might think is an intentional assault on what would otherwise be a thriving economic sector. Already depressed by the government overreach that culminated in the…
The Decline of Clean Coal R&D Funding and the Pitfalls of Politically Driven Energy Policies
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In a previous article Resource Erectors highlighted Elon Musk’s $100 million and $20 million XPRIZEs as motivation for the development of innovative CO2 capturing technology. The winning projects involved a coal-fired power plant and an LNG facility, where CO2 was captured at the stacks and injected to make concrete…
Coal, Concrete, the Zero-Carbon Cure, and Musk’s $100 Million XPRIZE
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An April 2021 Associated Press report posted at Power Engineering announced the latest first prize winners of Elon Musk’s $20 million XPRIZE. $15 million (with the other $5 million going to promising runners up) was split between two of the most unlikely candidates (from the green-minded environmentalist point of…
