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Tashkent sights
February 9, 2010 – 8:05 pm
The city like so many in Central Asia is undergoing a facelift and modernisation. Where the old meets the new, the health and safety is always a pleasure to observe - like this renovation where the guys below were dodging the chunks of concrete generated by the jack hammers above. I particularly liked the human [...]
Uzbekistan Associated Gas CDM Project
January 31, 2010 – 12:29 pm
The World Bank is considering providing assistance to Uzbekneftegas for utilization of oil gas at four oil deposits under CDM mechanism. Huckbody Environmental has been commissioned by World Bank to provide the safeguards component for the project, which involves travel to Karshi in Southern Uzbekistan to carry out a site visit of the project facilities [...]
Tonkolili Iron Ore Project Sierra Leone
January 26, 2010 – 8:16 pm
Huckbody Environmental has been commissioned by WorleyParsons and African Minerals Limited to manage the Environmental and Social Programme for this large iron ore project, which includes a 5.1 Billion tonne JORC compliant Mineral Resource reported for Numbara, Simbili and Marampon in Sierra Leone. The link below gives a video overview of the project.
Tonkolili Iron Ore [...]
Old City Baku
January 7, 2010 – 6:02 pm
Old City or Inner City is the ancient historical core of Baku. In December 2000, the Old City of Baku, including the Palace of the Shirvanshahs and Maiden Tower, became the first location in Azerbaijan to be classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Kura river basin
December 20, 2009 – 7:51 am
Driving across Azerbaijan last week it is clear that it is a country of contrasting landscapes. The massively oil-polluted Absheron peninsula gives way to semi-desert through the centre, before one reaches the high mountains fringing Russia that were beautifully snow-capped. Here the nature is wild with large trees of beech, oak and chestnut. Eagles soar [...]
Baku Port
December 20, 2009 – 7:25 am
Each morning I watch the dawn break over the Caspian Sea through the heavy dirt on the hotel window. The cranes of the port appear gradually against the pale skyline, as the sun slowly rises.
Baku International Sea Trade Port was founded in 1902 and since it has always been the largest and the most important [...]
Scaffolding
December 4, 2009 – 3:16 pm
The description below is pretty much what I recall from my NEBOSH construction H&S course – the manual never reached Azerbaijan – love the groovy curves, there is always something natural and flowing about man-made scaffold from wood or bamboo. Having said that I have watched guys all over the world perching and squatting on [...]
