SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER
August 2012
No. 167
Table of Contents
MARKET NEWS
- Screening for Radioactive Material in All Shipping
Containers Headed to U.S. Too Expensive for Now
- Environmental Monitoring Market in China Worth $3
Billion per Year Up to 2015
- China Forecast to Spend $34 Million on Environmental
Monitoring, Information Management in 2011
- Global Market for Chemical Sensors to Reach $17.28
Billion by 2015, Spurred in Part by Growth in Environmental Monitoring
- Global Water Analysis Instrumentation Market to Reach
$1.86 Billion by 2017
- Six-Percent Growth in European Sensor Market over
Last Four Years
SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES
- New Monitoring System Uses Bacteria for Detection of
Water Contamination
- Sustained, In Situ Remediation of TCE-Contaminated
Groundwater Using Mixed Metal Oxide Electrodes, Palladium, FE(II), Solar Power
AROUND THE WORLD
- China – Soil Contaminated by Heavy Metals, Arsenic
Greater Problem than Air, Water Pollution
- India – U.S. Court Rules Madhya Pradesh State
Government Responsible for Bhopal Cleanup, Not Union Carbide
- Russia - $620 Million Allocated for Environmental
Cleanup, Including Wrangel Island and Franz Josef Archipelago
INDUSTRY NEWS
- Air Force Hires Shaw Group for $50 Million
Remediation of Fuel Spill Threatening Albuquerque Water Wells
COMPANY NEWS
- Tetra Tech Awarded $91 Million Remediation Contract
at NASA Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral
- Tetra Tech to Perform Feasibility Study for Site
Remediation at Port Hope Conversion Facility of Cameco