Eureka, Utah — Brian Shields squints his eyes and stares into the wavy heat-blurred mirage floating over the twin polyethylene pipelines stretching into the Utah desert. A pair of McElroy fusion machines is spitting out 80 feet of new pipeline every 15 minutes while a single fusion technician slowly paces between them like an expecting father. Shields slides his hardhat off to expose his shaved head to the August sun and says, “In a total …
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I push my way through the mass of people gathered in the pipe warehouse in search of Ryan Harrington. I find him surrounded by a group of 120-some-odd men who are shouting answers to pipe fusion questions with the enthusiasm of Ron Popeil’s studio audience. Harrington is flinging hats and shirts at them like a cheerleader at a football game and the whole scene looks more like a pep rally than a polyethylene, fusion-training seminar. …
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Everett , WA — The key to pollution is dilution and environmentalists are applauding Everett Washington ‘s deep-water outfall project for accomplishing just that. The state-of-the-art pipeline is a joint effort by the cities of Everett and Marysville along with Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill to dispose of their wastewater. The pipeline will carry the waste deep into Port Gardner Bay and replace the old discharge locations along the Snohomish River . City ratepayers and the paper …
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The press had already announced that President George W. Bush would be visiting Louisville , Kentucky on February 26 th for a campaign fund-raising luncheon. What they didn’t know is that he’d be making another stop that morning at ISCO Industries. “When we got the call from The White House we were surprised, honored and anxious at the same time,” said James Kirchdorfer, Sr., ISCO’s Chairman. ISCO Industries has quickly become one of the nation’s …
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