RYAM documents challenge bioethanol opinion and decision making process

By Mike Lednovich Attorneys for Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM) claim the company is being denied “due process” in its bid to build a $50 million bioethanol production plant and that an outside opinion obtained by Fernandina Beach that the facility violates the Land Development Code is not factual and “non-binding.” In a 117-page filing by […]

The Shard among iconic buildings to have anti earthquakes springs made in Cornwall

Some of the biggest and most iconic buildings in the world have been designed to withstand earthquakes with giant springs made in Cornwall. European Springs & Pressings in Penryn, Cornwall, manufactures springs for South Brent based Vexcolt, one of the world’s leading producers of expansion joints and movement control joints. Covering every continent across the […]

Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea

China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea has steadily increased, resulting in heightened tensions with Southeast Asian claimant states, particularly the Philippines, at the Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands. Background China’s sweeping claims of sovereignty over the sea—and the sea’s estimated 11 billion barrels of untapped oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas—have antagonized […]