dubai

[linemanbillca1]

Does anyone know of a big job starting in dubia or anywheres for that matter

[compression]

Heard Dillard-Smith got the bid on the South Africa job(hearsay). Its supposed to last quite a while 3+yrs. Guess I gotta learn to speak Afrikaan or Zulu now :) Rumored to pay pretty well.

Read somewhere about 2 or 3 new 200+ mile transmission lines going up in Nevada. Supposed to be done by 2010? Green(earth friendly) Power plants and the whole shootin match.

Haven't heard anything about Dubai though - but damn that place is growing like nothing I've seen before. I would think as fast as they're building over there that anyone could get good work, anytime.

[scammy]

why go to the arab immerates ,,to help them when they would really prefer to see us dead?????**** em,,,,,,scammy

[Squizzy]

There is a rumour going around here of a couple of middle east jobs paying some big $$ haven't seen anything in writting yet and its for whole crews...

[splitbolt]

I am looking to possibly do some overseas work if I can, can anyone point me in the right direction?? I have heard talk of work in south Africa but nothing concrete.
Any help would be great. Thanks

[CPOPE]

There is a rumour going around here of a couple of middle east jobs paying some big $$ haven't seen anything in writting yet and its for whole crews...

PESCO man killed as power pylon blown up

PESHAWAR: A Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) employee was killed and three injured when Taliban blew up an electricity pylon using a remote-controlled device in Merra Suraizai Payan village on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Thursday, said police. A police official told Daily Times that explosives weighing 5 kilogrammes planted by the Taliban at the base of the tower went off at around 2pm, killing a PESCO lineman and injuring three others. A bomb disposal squad official said the Taliban used four sticks of dynamite – weighing a kilogramme each – to initially damage the pylon, and when PESCO officials were repairing the damage, a remote controlled device was detonated. PESCO spokesman Shaukat Afzal told Daily Times that a lineman Muhammad Rehman was killed in the attack. manzoor ali shah
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[CPOPE]

Does anyone know of a big job starting in dubia or anywheres for that matter
Idaho-to-Vegas power line moving ahead
The Associated Press
Posted: 07/16/2009 04:07:50 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS—A developer says it has reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a major transmission line from southern Idaho through eastern Nevada and to Las Vegas.
LS Power announced Thursday that it and the DOE's Western Area Power Administration are moving forward on an "evaluation and consideration of a potential partnership" to develop the Southwest Intertie Project, which would travel 500 miles.

LS Power says it plans to start construction later this year and could deliver up to two gigawatts of renewable energy to the grid.

Long-ignored transmission project gets new life
Sat. July 18, 2009; Posted: 10:35 AM
- A high-voltage transmission-line project first proposed in the early 1990s is once again moving forward, this time propelled by a Missouri company.
Idaho Power Co. first acquired the rights-of-way for the Southwest Intertie Project about 15 years ago, and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management performed an environmental study of its route at the time. But the project was shelved until 2005, when Great Basin Transmission LLC ?" an affiliate of LS Power Development ?" picked up the rights from the Idaho utility.

Now, the project is on the edge of becoming reality. The 500-kilovolt line would run more than 500 miles from the Midpoint Substation ?" near Shoshone ?" to Las Vegas. Construction could start on its southern half this year, and the segment that includes Idaho could be operational by 2011.

Great Basin is gathering bids for space on the future lines and arranging funding to begin work on the project. But the company said Thursday that it may start construction before completing the bid negotiations through a partnership with Western Area Power Administration and funding from this spring's economic stimulus act.

The project would be Nevada's first major north-south power transmission line and primarily would handle energy from new renewable-energy projects, said Mark Milburn, assistant vice president of LS Power and the Intertie's project manager. But it will also provide additional reliable transmission infrastructure for the West, he said, as well as construction jobs and tax revenues for local government.

"We equate more transmission to more supply to better electricity costs," he said.

The Intertie would also link to another proposed transmission project ?" Gateway West, expected to stretch 1,150 miles across southern Idaho and Wyoming. The Nevada project would essentially provide the Gateway segment from the Midpoint station south to a proposed station in Twin Falls County called Cedar Hill, Milburn said ?" though Idaho Power may decide another line is needed in the same area. A separate Great Basin project would also connect the Shoshone power station to wind farms in Wyoming, following Gateway's northern route.

Unlike Gateway West, the Intertie's route was largely secured in the 1990s. But Magic Valley residents back then had many of the same concerns they now voice about high-voltage lines, including whether they had any effect on human health.

Great Basin technically has the rights-of-way it needs to proceed, but is still working with landowners to tweak the established route, Milburn said. Among the changes will likely be a detour around the Minidoka National Historic Site.

Wendy Janssen, the site's National Park Service superintendent, said she met twice this spring with developers and was told they are looking for alternate routes through the area. She's concerned not only about the effects of the lines within the site's boundaries, but also just outside of that area where many historic structures and cultural resources still exist. At the same time, she also wants to work with the farmers who live next to the site.

Though Janssen said the 1994 BLM study is now "outdated," Milburn said his company doesn't expect another to be needed. He's very interested in working with NPS and others to address remaining route concerns, he said.

"We're going to be neighbors there for a long time," Milburn said. "We want to participate in the preservation of the site."