AIR & WATER MONITORING

NEWSLETTER  

November 2012
No. 397

 Table of Contents

REGULATORY

• Controversy About Fracking Pollution Continues
• Study Finds Duke Energy’s Coal Ash Ponds Polluting Waters Downstream of Power Plants
• EPA Requires an Additional Year to Finalize Coal Ash Rule
• EPA Grants Extended Stay of 45 Days for San Juan Generating Station (New Mexico)

MARKETS

• $7.5 Billion Air and Water Monitoring Market in East Asia
• 25 Percent of the Cartridge Market is Now in East Asia
• Billion-Dollar Annual Market for Mercury Reduction
• FGD Market Shifts Toward East Asia
• Desalination is a Growth Market for Flow Control and Filtration
• East Asia Liquid Macrofiltration Market to Exceed $2.6 Billion in 2013
• World Needs to Efficiently Utilize Its Finite Coal Reserves
• Niche Experts and Decisive Classification Will Boost the U.S. and World Economies

INDUSTRY NEWS

• National Grid and ETI to Assess Offshore Carbon Storage Site in U.K.
• U.K. Announces £20 Million Carbon Capture Pilot for Gas-Fired Power Plant
• EIA Report Shows U.S. Coal Consumption Down 16 Percent, Exports Up 39 Percent
• Fluor Selected to Build Carbon Capture Plant for Shell in Canada
• China “Fastest Moving” on CO₂ Capture, Global CCS Institute Says 
• “Coal-fired Boiler Optimization” is Hot Topic on October 11, 2012
• Wastewater Treatment Company Heckmann to Buy Power Fuels to Increase Its Fracking Business
• SilverWillow Energy Advances Alberta Audet Oilsands Project
• Shell’s Jackpine Oilsands Development About to Exceed Albeta’s New SO₂ Limits
• Shuttered Marcus Hook Refinery to Process Marcellus Shale Products
• Athabasca Oil Corp. Awards Contract to GE’s Water Treatment Technologies for Hangingstone Oil Sands SAGD Project
• Frack Water Market to Reach $9 Billion in 2020
• Enterprise Will Bring Third Train at Yoakum Natural Gas Processing Facility in the Eagle Ford Shale on Line in 2013
• Ridgeline Energy Services Treats 2000 m³ of Frack Water Daily
• Shell Canada Dawson Creek Shell Canada, Dawson Creek Launch Dawson Creek Reclaimed Water Project in BC
• South Africa to Conditionally Approve Fracking Under Supervision of Future Monitoring Process
• Thermo Fisher Reports Record Earnings for the Third Quarter
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Exhibited Next-Gen Mining Portfolio During MINExpo 2012
• Hach Company Launches FDT Certified Multi-Sensor Device Type Manager
• Hach Launches RTC101 P-Module for Phosphorus Control
• The Yokogawa Distributed Temperature Sensor is Used to Monitor Temperature, Leaks, and Flow in Oil/Gas