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    • Lutz Genscher

      Lutz Genscher

      Tags: Tunnel Boring Machines, Tunnel Boring Machine tunneling, environment, sustainability, renewable energy, railroads, hiking in nature, exotic lands, industrial heritage sites

      • Tim Altman

        California barrels forward on its reckless fish-killing Delta Tunnel plan

        The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) goes ahead in its plans to build the controversial single tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.  The tunnel tunnel is controversial because it would drive already imperiled Delta smelt, long fin smelt, winter-run and spri...

        Tags: environment, tunnels, sustainability

        • Tim Altman

          Enbridge to go ahead submitting permits for its controversial Great Lakes Tunnel Project amid COVID-19

          Enbridge Energy will not delay appluing for permits for the Great Lakes Tunnel Project under the Straits of Mackinac, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tribal governments that oppose the project want Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to slow the process down. They say it’s impossible to prepare for public...

          Tags: environment, sustainability

          • Carlos Kirschner

            Austria : Semmering Tunnel will be powered by electricity generated from tunnel's seepage water

              ASFINAG, The Austrian public company which plans, finances, builds, maintains and collects tolls for the Austrian autobahns has announced a very innovative project for operating one of its tunnel. According to the press release, the almost 4 kilometer long Semmering Tunnel on the S6...

            Tags: innovation, sustainability, tunnel semmering, tunnel innovation

            • Carlos Kirschner

              Austria : Semmering Tunnel will be powered by electricity generated from tunnel's seepage water

                ASFINAG, The Austrian public company which plans, finances, builds, maintains and collects tolls for the Austrian autobahns has announced a very innovative project for operating one of its tunnel. According to the press release, the almost 4 kilometer long Semmering Tunnel on the S6...

              Tags: innovation, tunnel innovation, sustainability, tunnel semmering, renewable energy

              • Marc Guitar

                Lyon-Turin base tunnel spoil to be reused on 167M above ground works

                Eiffage will reuse material excavated from the Lyon to Turin high speed rail projects base tunnel to deliver 189.5M (167M) of above ground works for a new transport hub in France. https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/lyon-turin-base-tunnel-spoil-to-be-reused-on-167m-above-ground-works-27-02-2023/

                Tags: sustainability

                • Jørn Sørensen

                  Denmark: Fehmarnbelt project reuses water from tunnel factory

                  As the first construction project in Denmark, a water treatment plant at the tunnel factory in Rødbyhavn ensures that all water after the casting of elements for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be reused as wash water. Water is needed to cast the huge tunnel elements for the 18 kilometre lo...

                  Tags: recycling, environment, sustainability, climate, climateEmergency climateCrisis, Cimate Emergency, Climate Crisis

                  • Tim Altman

                    USA: Hundreds of thousands of juvenile Chinook salmon die in Klamath River while moving through dam tunnel

                    The fish were believed to have been killed as a result of gas bubble disease while passing through a tunnel at the base of Iron Gate Dam. https://www.opb.org/article/2024/03/03/chinook-salmon-die-klamath-river-dam/

                    Tags: environment, dams, dam tunnels, sustainability