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- Spokane Journal of Business – The Business Newspaper For The Inland…
- Engen managers mull plan to move refinery
- EPA announces Arizona environmental enforcement accomplishments for…

Spokane Journal of Business – The Business Newspaper For The Inland…
Spokane Journal of Business – Nov 21, 2007
is revisiting its roots to keep a stable base in a changing trucking industry, says Doug Ross, its president. Keeping revenue steady this year with the loss of three of the companys five largest national shipping contracts due to buyouts of those shippers has been no easy feat, Ross says. The company, owned by Ross and his brother, Dave Ross, has managed to do that, however, and expects its revenues to rise 5 percent this year to about $6 million, he says. Ross attributes that increase largely to added reimbursements for the companys higher fuel costs…
He says the company expects that the new facilities could cost up to $2. Ross father, Dale, founded Spokane Transfer as a moving company in 1964. When the company moved into its facility at 117 N. Napa in the early 1970s, his father diversified the company broadly, Ross says. In addition to furniture moving, Spokane Transfer leased smaller trailers to the public for use when moving, had scales to weigh trucks, moved furniture, and sold fuel to other trucking companies, he says. Around that time, Spokane Transfer also started doing short-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) trucking.

Engen managers mull plan to move refinery
Independent Online – Nov 21, 2007
Refinery chief Willem Oosthuizen said it would be impossible to shift in one go because building a new refinery would cost between R15-billion and R20-billion. But he confirmed that the company had held preliminary discussions with the Airports Company of South Africa about the possibility of acquiring some of its land for future expansion. The airport is due to be decommissioned when the new King Shaka Airport at La Mercy opens in 2010…
Refinery chief Willem Oosthuizen said it would be impossible to shift in one go because building a new refinery would cost between R15-billion and R20-billion. But he confirmed that the company had held preliminary discussions with the Airports Company of South Africa about the possibility of acquiring some of its land for future expansion. The airport is due to be decommissioned when the new King Shaka Airport at La Mercy opens in 2010. If it was possible to secure airport land, “that would give us a base to start moving across”, he said. However, Oosthuizen said he hoped that the blaze at the Tara Road refinery, which started soon after 7pm on Monday, would burn itself out during the course of last night or the early hours of this morning.

EPA announces Arizona environmental enforcement accomplishments for…
WebWire – WebWire (press release) – Nov 21, 2007
o Shasta Beverages, Inc. was fined $11,900 for failing to file annual chemical inventory forms with state and local emergency response agencies for chlorine and ammonia stored at its soft drink manufacturing facility in 2003 through 2005. o Romic Environmental Technologies paid a $97,000 settlement for violating federal waste handling and storage laws. The company performs solvent recycling, blending, aerosol can processing, bulking, container crushing, and waste consolidation for off-site disposal o The EPA ordered Raytheon Company and the U. Air Force to clean up a migrating contaminated-groundwater plume at the Tucson International Airport Area Superfund Site. Under the order, Raytheon, formerly Hughes Aircraft, and the U.