Fort Saskatchewan city council found itself Tuesday night joining the growing debate over where a high-voltage power line should be built saying they don’t want it cutting through a yet-to-be-developed east-end industrial area.
Two of the four options for the proposed heartland transmission line project would cut through the city’s east end, possibly inhibiting the growth of the planned industrial area, council heard from administration Tuesday night.
Epcor and AltaLink are planning to build a double-circuit, 500-kV power line between Lake Wabumun and the Fort Saskatchewan area.
On Tuesday, council passed a resolution …

With reference to the PATH power line proposal and new substation to be built at Kemptown, Md., I know that many area residents are worried about the cancer link and EMF/ELF (electric and magnetic field/extremely low frequency) exposure.
It is true that much of the research out there is inconclusive. It is also true that most of the research has been done on smaller lines and smaller substations.
In 1999, Dr. Kenneth Olden, the director of the EMF RAPID research project (which Congress spent more than $40 million on), stated in his …

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Taiwan-based PCB makers are seeing tight capacity mainly due to increasing demand for notebook and optoelectronics boards, and the situation is expected to become even more serious in the fourth quarter as most players currently have no substantial plans to expand capacity, according to sources at the companies.
Tripod Technology, Taiwan PCB Techvest (TPT), Dynamic Electronics, HannStar Board and Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) have all indicated demand has exceeded their capacity. Tripod and TPT plan to expand some of their production lines to meet the influx of optoelectronics board orders.
HannStar Board …

Taipei, Sept. 11, 2009 (CENS)–Affected by sluggish market demand for mobile phones around the world, Taiwanese PCB (printed circuit board) makers, who together supply over half of the global market for handset PCBs, generally posted moderate sales in August.
Dedicated to production of PCBs for traditional mobile phones, Compeq Manufacturing Co., Ltd., for instance, reported sales revenue of NT$1.518 billion (US$46 million at US$1: NT$33) for August, slightly up 0.78% from July but sharply down 31.25% from last August, adding to its aggregate revenue for the first eight months of this …