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The move to finally take Akwa Ibom State away from being a core civil service state to an industrial super hub within the Gulf of Guinea last week got the nod of the federal government with the approval for the take off of the Ibom Deep Sea Port, a news that threw residents of the state into an ecstasy of delight.
The Ibom Deep Sea Port, a Public Private Partnership Initiative under a 60% private and 40% public sector arrangement will no doubt change not just the face of the state’s industrialization philosophy but also has the possibility of having a multiplier effect whose impact will surely boomerang to almost all sectors of the state’s economy.
N. Macedonia s tender for Cebren HPP concession attracts 10 candidates Author: U.S. Army Corps of Engine. License: Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic.
SKOPJE (North Macedonia), December 23 (SeeNews) - North Macedonia has received ten expressions of interest in its tender for a concession contract for the construction of the Cebren hydro power plant (HPP) - a project expected to cost at least 500 million euro ($608.9 million) to 600 million euro, the government said on Wednesday.
Six consortia submitted expressions of interest with their members including Turkey s Enka, Ozaltin and Yapi Merkezi, Greece s PPC and Archirodon, Austria s EVN and Verbund, France s Eiffage and Spain s Cobra, the government said in a press release.
HotSpots H20: Tensions Rise as India, China Clash over Proposed Chinese Dam circleofblue.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from circleofblue.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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States of the North East have had to pay the price of the belligerence between the two countries. The Zangmu Hydropower Station across the Yarlung Zangbo/Brahmaputra river in Gyaca county in Lhoka, Tibet. | AFP
While Indian and Chinese troops face each other in Ladakh, the water war between the two countries has flared up again in the eastern sector. Both nations have pulled out their favourite weapon: big dams.
It began in the last week of November, when the president of Power Construction Corporation of China, a Chinese state-owned company, announced plans to develop a massive hydroelectric project, with production capacity of up to 60 gigawatts, on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river. The Brahmaputra is called the Yarlung Tsangpo or the Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet, where it originates.