Word: planting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...banner of reducing America's dependence on foreign energy. In fact, you'd think they would want their names in the paper and awards on their wall. But in the case of a strange kind of American alchemy involving coal, don't expect to be welcome on a plant tour. The reason isn't that secrecy is necessary to protect a technological marvel but just the opposite. What you would see behind the curtain is a scheme that would make the Wizard of Oz envious. And you wouldn't be amused, because as an American taxpayer, you're paying...
About a mile off the twisting, two-lane road to the south of Central City, Pa., set back in the woods along a private road, past the truck scales and the raw-coal stockpile, invisible from the highway, is the Shade Creek processing plant of PBS Coals Inc. There freshly mined coal is washed, the sulfur, rock, ash and other impurities removed and the cleaned coal carried by an overhead conveyor belt across the dusty road. It goes into a building on the other side that is operated by a second company, Central City Synfuels. Another belt comes...
...that we are not allowed to reveal the name of the purchaser." WPS Resources, the parent company of Wisconsin Public Service, sold a portion of its operation to "a subsidiary of a public company" whose name was not disclosed. Massey Energy Company sold its interest in a synthetic-fuel plant to an "unidentified affiliate of a major financial institution...
...manager at Warrior Synfuel, near Tuscaloosa, Ala., declined to identify the "private parties," as he called them, that own the plant. He said he had conveyed TIME's request to speak with them: "I believe their choice was that they didn't feel that this was appropriate...
...Hits The Brakes To Ford's growing list of problems in Europe, add labor woes. Belgian unions and government officials are reacting furiously to the automaker's decision to cut 3,000 jobs - a third of the workforce - and cancel a planned €900 million investment at its Genk plant. The cuts come as Ford struggles with slumping sales and market share in Europe, where it lost €447 million before tax in the second quarter to June. Workers at Genk last week staged two 24-hour strikes at the plant, which makes the Mondeo sedan and Transit minivan; they...