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The dollar broke the calm that lasted for more than a month in the vicinity of 100,000 pounds, and took the path of declining slowly. And the dollar continues to decline, recording on Saturday, May 6, regarding 94,300 pounds for purchase and regarding 94,600 pounds for sale. It is expected that the decline will continue amid anticipation of any sudden rise in prices.

In parallel, the volume of trading on a banking platform decreased significantly, reaching $70 million yesterday, Friday, while it had recorded $147 million on Thursday. The price of the dollar remained on the platform at the level of 86,300 pounds.

During the council of Thursday, May 4, 2023, the Prime Minister spoke regarding the call to demonstrate launched by the living forces of Guinea. Dr. Bernard Goumou said he was surprised to hear this and once more invited the FVG to a fraternal dialogue.

According to the minister spokesperson for the government, Ousmane Gaoual Diallo, the Prime Minister is surprised to see the actors of the active forces calling for new demonstrations when they had pledged to meet once more in 10 days to examine the points raised. The FVG announced their withdrawal from the dialogue and a series of demonstrations, which surprised the Prime Minister.

Despite this, the Prime Minister remains attentive to the living forces and keeps his hand outstretched for an important and fraternal dialogue. Ousmane Gaoual Diallo indicated that the head of government would contact the various actors to see to what extent the dialogue might continue and allow the outcome of the discussions.

The living forces have already declined the routes of their peaceful marches scheduled for May 10 and 11 in Greater Conakry. According to our information, even the information letters were sent to the authorities of the communes crossed. It remains to be seen whether, this time once more, the FVG will give up their demonstrations to give a last chance to the junta led by Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya.

A young farmer from Lachute does not understand why the local authorities want to prevent him from decarbonizing and increasing his income by producing gas with the manure from his cows.

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“We’ve wanted to do a project like this for 10 years,” says Kevin Hammond, 30. He is preparing to take over from his father, Benjamin, the farm founded in 1921 by his great-grandfather.

The most recent version of the project was submitted in the summer of 2021 by Keridis BioÉnergie, a Franco-Quebec company specializing in the biomethanization of agricultural residues.

Keridis wants to build, on the land of the Hammonds, huge closed tanks to produce methane by fermenting, each year, tens of thousands of tons of manure, slurry and crop residues.

Fewer odors

“The manure stays in there for regarding 60 days. It is transformed into natural gas and digestate”, explains Simon Naylor, vice-president at Keridis.

The digestate is then used as fertilizer, but since it is a “digested” product, in a way, it generates much less odor than untreated manure.

“It will disturb the inhabitants less than at present, underlines Mr. Naylor. But in addition, the digestate will have mineralized nitrogen and phosphorus, so the Hammond family will not have to buy so many chemical fertilizers.

The project provides that the gas produced will be injected into the Énergir network, which passes less than a kilometer from the Hammond farm.

One press and then… no

At the end of August 2021, the general manager of the City of Lachute, Benoît Gravel, expressed the municipality’s support for the project in a letter sent to Keridis.

However, the tide turned in the months that followed. “The City and the MRC d’Argenteuil now want us to build our plant near the landfill, but that would kill the economy of the project because it’s six kilometers from our farm,” laments Mr. Hammond.

“We would have to transport our manure by truck, which represents 1000 round trips per year”, he specifies, referring to potential problems of noise and… odors.

The mayor of Lachute, Bernard Bigras-Denis, and the prefect of Argenteuil, Scott Pearce, both refused our interview requests. In an email sent to Journal Friday, the deputy director general of the MRC, Estelle Bédard, raises “concerns in connection with the inconveniences that might bring such a project located too close to residential areas”.

Problems at Warwick

M^me Bédard did not specify what these potential inconveniences were. Note, however, that the first agricultural biogas project in Quebec, inaugurated in 2021 in Warwick, in the Centre-du-Québec region, experienced odor and vibration problems last year, according to the media. The New Union.

Simon Naylor acknowledges that difficulties can arise when starting a new installation.

“But it’s not crazy technology,” he says. It’s new for Quebecers, but there are 10,000 factories like that in Germany, 1,200 in France and hundreds in the United States. It’s not experimental.”

Kevin Hammond hopes that local elected officials will change course.

“They are disconnected from what governments want to do for the environment,” he denounces.

Zhonghua Motor once once more mentioned the 2023 product plan at the law conference in April this year, and announced that it will introduce the Eclipse Cross PHEV. Recently, it has also been found that the Eclipse Cross PHEV has appeared in the new vehicle inspection data of the Environmental Protection Agency, and it is expected to be released in the third quarter. officially published.

The Eclipse Cross PHEV has appeared in the EPA’s verification documents and is expected to be published in the third quarter of this year. (Image source: Extracted from the website of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Zhonghua Motor said in April that it will mention the introduction of the Eclipse Cross PHEV once more. (Photo source: Zhonghua Motors)

As the brand’s chief representative of cross-border running travel, Eclipse Cross has added a PHEV plug-in gasoline-electric power during the minor facelift, adopting the same power configuration as the Outlander PHEV, with a 2.4-liter MIVEC four-cylinder gasoline engine plus front and rear Shaft electric motor, among them, the engine can provide a maximum output of 126 hp/20.3 kg m, while the two motors can provide a maximum horsepower of 80 hp and 93 hp respectively, and the 13.8kWh lithium battery pack matched with it can provide a pure electric range of 57 kilometers recharge mileage.

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It is powered by the same 2.4-liter plug-in gasoline-electric powertrain as the Outlander PHEV. (Image source: Mitsubishi)

In terms of equipment, the Japanese New Year-style Eclipse Cross PHEV adds electric tailgate kick sensor function and rear seat UBS charging port to further enhance the convenience of technology. It is also expected to be equipped with a Level 2 MI-Pilot driving assistance system. As for the actual The equipment level is still to be officially announced when the new car is released.

The Eclipse Cross PHEV has a pure electric cruising range of 57 kilometers. (Image source: Mitsubishi)

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