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Vol. XXXII • No. 8
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Crews Restore S.C. Beaches After Storms
Full-Depth Recycling Saves Time, Money…8
Kobelco S.C. Plant Makes 1000th Excavator…14
Sara Corbett, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Work crews use elbow-pipe segments to direct sand where it needs to go before bulldozers shape it and level it out to meet the design template.
By Eric Olson
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, a mix of tools and machinery is hard at work in a part of South Carolina known as a place for fun and relaxation: the coastline in and around Myrtle Beach. The area beaches are part of South Carolina’s 60-mi.-long Grand Strand, a series of seaside communities stretching from the North Carolina border to Georgetown. Known worldwide for its gentle ocean breezes and top-tier golf resorts, the northern section of the Grand Strand includes Myrtle and North Myrtle beaches, as well as Garden City and Surfside Beach. CEG CORRESPONDENT
Ascendum Hosts Open House in Charlotte…28
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Sometimes, though, those breezes are anything but gentle. In recent years, Hurricanes Matthew, Irma and Florence have all menaced the Myrtle Beach area — in the process vividly reinforcing the need for periodic (and expensive) renovation of the beaches between their seaside homes and the Atlantic Ocean. In a project that began last summer and is currently on hold for the winter, the beaches in the northern Grand Strand, Horry County, are undergoing a major 26.2-mi. rehabilitation involving a sand and berm upgrade. The multimillion-dollar job is designed to protect the beaches, as well as see BEACHES page 78
Skid Steer Section ...................................47-70
FERC Breaks Logjam on $5B La. Gas Facility
Parts Section ................72
After a two-month delay, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved Venture Global’s $5 billion Calcasieu Pass liquefied natural gas export facility in western Louisiana, and cleared the way for construction, Kallanish Energy reported.
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The approval came as the federal agency reached an agreement on a new approach for consideration of direct greenhouse gas emissions from LNG facilities. “Since I joined the commission, it’s been a priority of mine to expedite and improve our LNG terminal application process,”
said FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee, in a statement. “I’m extremely pleased that we are issuing the certification order for the Calcasieu Pass LNG export terminal,” he said. “But even more so, I really appreciate the efforts of my colleagues to work together to come
to an agreement on this facility. This is significant, as I anticipate we’ll be able to use the framework developed in this order to evaluate other LNG certificates that the commission is considering,” Chatterjee said. He said FERC’s multipronged see FACILITY page 24