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Lethal and Leaking
In Hanford, WA millions of gallons of nuclear waste have been stored underground. The Department of Energy has been working to clean up the site since the early 1990s. However due to engineering miscalculations, the development of a treatment plant is behind schedule. Errors such as defective equipment and other mistakes that risk the safety of the plant have forced the price of the clean up to triple.
Tags: Department of Energy; environment; nuclear waste; treatment plant; construction; construction delays; Bechtel; ecology; toxic waste
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Easy Pass: Why Bechtel Never Paid for its Big Dig Mistakes"
The Boston Globe investigates "who, if anyone, was to blame for more than $1.6 billion in construction cost overruns on the nation's largest, most expensive public works project, "the Big Dig," and why those responsible had never been held accountable. What we found was that Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the mega-corporate joint venture running the project, committed a series of poor decisions, design mistakes, and imprecise research findings that led to about two-thirds of the overruns. The company's political connections, lobbyists, and cross pollination with state and federal officials go a long way toward explaining why the company was never held accountable."
Tags: Bechtel; Big Dig; Boston; fee overruns; construction cost overruns; public works projects; Parsons Brinckerhoff; politics; lobbyists; political connections; design mistakes; construction
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Trouble on Tap
"The story explored the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's decisions to award San Francisco-based Bechtel Group with a $45 million contract to manage the renovation of the city's water system." Bechtel's track record in Bolivia points to cost increases and privatization, and in that case, riots in response to water rate hikes.
Tags: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; Mayor Willie Brown; FOI request
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The Earth Wrecker
This article examines the history of Bechtel Group Inc., a giant multinational engineering and construction firm based out of San Francisco. Among other findings, Chatterjee reports that a subsidiary of Bechtel Group Inc. in Bolivia had hiked prices by as much as 300 percent.
Tags: business; Bechtel Group Inc.; international water company
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Bechtel's $45 million screw job
A four-month SFBG investigation concluded that the city of San Francisco is wasting money on a contract with Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation to help manage reconstruction of the city's water system. The story looks at the problems of privatization.
Tags: Bechtel; Mike Quan; San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; PUC; San Francisco Water Alliance; privatization
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No title (id: 657)
New West runs article on the possible safety defects at the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant in Sacramento, Calif.; piece details engineering miscalculations and poor structural designs by Bechtel Corp., November 1979.
Tags: CA Bechtel
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No title (id: 173)
Mother Jones researches shady international dealings of the Bechtel Corporation, September/October 1978. Bechtel
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