According to court documents, Lafarge and its Damascus-based subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS), made payments to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham – better known as ISIS – and its ally, the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), in exchange for permission to operate a cement plant in Syria from 2013 to 2014.
The bribes
Laing O’Rourke says it has a “key role” to play in delivering the word’s net-zero ambitions post-covid.
Releasing its 2022 tax year results, the company pledged to continue reducing embodied and operational carbon in projects. It said it had more than halved its global scope 1 & 2 (direct and indirect) carbon emissions since 2020. And it is on track
A recent discovery by materials science researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering might one day prevent electronic devices and components from going haywire when they’re too close to one another. A special coating that they developed, using a type of two-dimensional material called MXene, has shown to be capable of absorbing and disbursing the electromagnetic fields that are the … Read More
Scott Pelley is one of the most experienced correspondents in broadcast journalism. He is the recipient of many awards for his work and has spoken with some of history’s most famous people, including Barrack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor and Alex Rodriguez, and has covered stories in Syria and at Ground Zero on 9/11. Pelley is the author of the memoir “Truth
Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) has received funding from a Pennsylvania state grant for the development of key technologies. The $1.9 million Department of Community and Economic Development grant will provide funding to support three technical areas.
Through the grant, CTC will continue to develop and implement advanced manufacturing technologies in support of next-generation small modular nuclear reactors and legacy systems
Co-funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme and Innovate UK (the UK’s innovation agency) Wedusea brings together industrial and academic specialists from the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain.
The Wedusea project plans to install a one-megawatt grid-connected OE35 floating wave energy converter, developed by OceanEnergy, at the European
