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Spotlight News – Tractor Trailer crashes into Slingerlands bridge

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Spotlight News – Tractor Trailer crashes into Slingerlands bridge

Sabre is a business that builds equipment for treating waste water from hydrofracking in New Scotland. It's located down the road from the old Stonewell Marketplace. http://www.firstcolumbia.com/general/first-columbias-investment-company-sabre-carves-our-fracking-business-outside-ny-2/

"One of those companies is Sabre Technical Services LLC in Slingerlands. The company has rigs that clean and recycle millions of gallons of water needed to extract natural gas from deep rock formations in Texas, Arkansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma and other states. Sabre Technical Services LLC in Slingerlands operates five $1 million rigs that purify water contaminated by hyrdofracking."

Sabre has contracts with Occidental Petroleum Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp., Apache Corp., Exxon and other energy giants, creating 100 jobs, about 20 of which are at the company headquarters. “We have 20 years of history with hydrofracking,” said John Mason, chairman and chief technology officer. “It’s the biggest market opportunity now.”

"The opportunities are not in New York, however, as the state continues to study whether to allow drilling in the Southern Tier, where the Marcellus Shale rock formation contains huge deposits of natural gas. "

Phil G McDonald Bridge – HighestBridges.com

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Phil G McDonald Bridge – HighestBridges.com

The Phil G. McDonald Bridge in West Virginia is one of the most unusual big bridges for it's time period. It's 700 feet above the Glade Creek.

Built in 1987-88, it's the world's highest truss bridge, and America's largest fracture critical bridge, that should a single truss or gusset plate fail, the entire bridge could plunge the height of 70 stories into the ravine. The bridge is carefully inspected on a yearly basis to avoid failure. Generally, since 1970, new large truss bridges are not constructed, ever since the lessons learned from 1967 Silver Bridge Disaster.

Strong policy and falling battery costs drive another record year for electric ca

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Strong policy and falling battery costs drive another record year for electric ca

"The number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world’s roads exceeded 3 million in 2017, a 54% increase compared with 2016, according to the latest edition of the International Energy Agency’s Global Electric Vehicles Outlook."

"China remained by far the largest electric car market in the world, accounting for half sold last year. Nearly 580,000 electric cars were sold in China in 2017, a 72% increase from the previous year. The United States had the second-highest, with about 280,000 cars sold in 2017, up from 160,000 in 2016."

"Nordic countries remain leaders in market share. Electric cars accounted for 39% of new car sales in Norway, making it the world leader in electric vehicle (EV) market share. In Iceland, new EV sales were 12% of the total while the share reached 6% in Sweden. Germany and Japan also saw strong growth, with sales more than doubling in both countries from their 2016 levels."

"Electric mobility is not limited to cars. In 2017, the stock of electric buses rose to 370,000 from 345,000 in 2016, and electric two-wheelers reached 250 million. The electrification of these modes of transport has been driven almost entirely by China, which accounts for more than 99% of both electric bus and two-wheeler stock, though registrations in Europe and India are also growing."