Project Delivery & Recovery

The project is still on budget when the infrastructure lead tells the steering committee that the upgrade it depends on is not in this year's plan. The sponsor thought the shared service had it covered, and the shared service thought the project would pay. Both teams have been reporting accurately against budgets that do not cover the same scope. PJM, the largest U.S. grid operator, is dealing with a much larger cost-allocation dispute. It was supposed to begin buying backsto

WestJet says it has seen no in-service events from the software issue the FAA flagged on the 737 MAX. The same issue is holding up certification of the MAX 10, which had been widely expected in October. ✈️ The software comes from GE Aerospace and affects automated flight guidance during a go-around, when pilots abandon a landing and climb away to try again. The FAA plans a review board to assess the safety risk. Asked how long a fix might take, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford

On Monday, Metro's Russian business said it was operating as normal and meeting its obligations to shoppers. The same day, its German parent said it had lost operational control. Both statements can be true. A presidential decree placed Metro's Russian assets under temporary management by a company registered three weeks earlier and owned by the head of its Russian business. The 91 wholesale stores can keep serving customers while the parent no longer controls them. From the

Reuters reported Saturday that Defiance, Ohio put a six-month hold on data center approvals. No company has announced one there. After the county's economic development office fielded inquiries from tech companies, residents gathered signatures for a November 3 ballot measure to ban all but the smallest data centers. City officials imposed the moratorium. Defiance isn't isolated. The Ohio Capital Journal reports that voters in 18 Ohio communities will decide data center measu

In 2009, Georgia Power asked regulators to approve two AP1000 reactors at Plant Vogtle, a standardized design that used modular construction to make the build simpler and more repeatable. The units were expected to cost about $14 billion and be running by 2016 and 2017. They entered service roughly seven years late at more than $30 billion. The causes cited include first-of-a-kind learning, an immature supply chain and workforce, Westinghouse's bankruptcy and the pandemic. So

E3 Lithium's announcement this morning is short, and the most interesting thing in it is the buyer's address rather than the volume. A non-binding agreement with Epsilon CAM in India, for up to 5,000 tonnes a year of battery-grade lithium carbonate out of the Clearwater project in Alberta. It lands in the same week Canada is putting more than 160 projects in front of global investors, with a headline ambition of C$1 trillion over five years. E3 is one of them. There is a lot

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