It's still possible to build Infrastructure projects, in some countries
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The Mickster just reminded me of this story. It’s too long to summarize here, but it’s well worth reading in its entirety, if only to make you sigh at the realization that we can no longer do it here.
WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany—In March, the German government asked energy companies to weigh a seemingly impossible engineering task. Could a new liquefied natural gas import terminal, which normally takes at least five years to build, be erected in this port town by year’s end?
At the headquarters of the company asked to build the pipeline portion, technical director Thomas Hüwener posed that question to his team. “If no, then it’s a no,” he told them. “If yes, then we have to commit, with all the possible consequences for our company.”
After three days deliberations, the company concluded that if everything went perfectly the project could be done by Christmas. Since then, it has had to contend with potentially toxic soil and environmental regulations protecting frogs and bats. When workers encountered high groundwater, they had to drain trenches, then backfill them.
Another company building a jetty for the floating terminal needed to scan the seabed for unexploded World War II-era munitions and scour construction sites across Europe for supplies.
And here’s WSJ article that is not worth reading, because you’ve seen it before, may, many times, here in the USA.
Italy found a fix for its gas crisis, but locals are resisting
A town in Tuscany is fighting against an LNG terminal that Italy says is urgently needed as part of Europe’s efforts to replace Russian energy
