In Gothenburg's waste treatment plant, Rickard discovered a silver lining in the cloudy waters.

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The Vale of White Horse District Council has unanimously rejected plans for a waste treatment plant near Sutton Courtenay.

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In the Aug. 23 memo, the DOE official responsible for supervising engineering at the facility, Gary Brunson, calls for Bechtel to be immediately removed as the design agent for the novel Waste Treatment Plant (WTP), which was supposed to begin operation last year.

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He set fire to an electric guitar alone onstage in front of a stunned crowd at the opening of Clarion Hotel Union Brygge in Drammen. (The newest addition to his empire opens Wednesday in Oslo, a luxurious art hotel named The Thief.) In Britain in 2002 he chained himself to the gate of a waste treatment plant to protest nuclear power.

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While the swim might seem likely to get cut, Korff cited a 2011 fire at a sewage-treatment plant that led to millions of gallons of waste flowing into the Hudson.

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It also suggested EU law would be contravened on a few issues such as the lack of pre-treatment of waste and also too much hazardous waste being produced by the plant and disposed of to landfill.

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