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2023-08-03 09:45:00

Convicted by the courts for drunk driving and speeding, Devonte ‘Graham was also caught by Adam Silver’s patrol. The point guard was suspended for two games by the NBA.

If the off-season rhymes with Draft, Summer League or even the World Cup, it also comes with some extra-sporting business which we would do well without. After Amir Coffey, arrested for illegal possession of a firearm earlier this week, it is Devonte ‘Graham who has some trouble with the law. Guilty of driving while intoxicated, the Spurs player was sentenced to a two-game ban from the NBAannounces the insider of The Athletic Shams Charania.

Spurs guard Devonte’ Graham has been suspended for two games for pleading guilty to charge of impaired driving in violation of law of state of North Carolina.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 2, 2023

The facts took place in July 2022, when Devonte ‘Graham was still playing in New Orleans. Arrested by North Carolina police, he was sentenced to 21 days in prison, which was later suspended. The 28-year-old man was then placed on probation for a period of one year. After that time, he pleaded guilty to drunk driving.

The NBA immediately reacted by handing down a two-game suspension on Graham. This will take effect at the start of the regular season, the guard of which will miss the first two meetings. Arrived in San Antonio last February in exchange for Josh Richardson, he played 20 games with the Spurs for an average of 13 points and 4 assists in 26.4 minutes of play.

Source : The Athletic

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2023-08-03 04:01:09

trigger has been working on the Fargo-Moorhead anti-flood canal construction project for regarding a year, in USA. A project that the company, which leads the initiative, calls “historic”, since it has become the first sustainable infrastructure development in this country under a public-private partnership, as well as the first green financing project in the US. .

Within this project, the company has developed another innovation project to introduce, for the first time, heavy machinery for civil works, the use of renewable biofuel generated from oil from hydrotreated vegetable residues. A “pioneering” act in the sector aimed at decarbonising the construction of infrastructures.

The main objective, according to Acciona, is to analyze the performance of biopropelled machinery. The idea is that, during the first six months, 385,000 liters of renewable biofuel will be used in two bulldozers. These, in turn, will be monitored to collect operating and maintenance data.

With this pilot project, the company expects a reduction of regarding 1,000 tons of CO2 during those months of construction of Fargo-Moorhead. In any case, its extended use over time in the project “might reduce almost 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions forecast for Acciona’s Construction business by 2023.”

Where does the biofuel come from?

This renewable biofuel is generated from hydrotreated vegetable waste oil (HVO). Basically, it is a renewable liquid fuel that has similar properties to traditional fossil fuel; Yes, it generates 90% less emissions. “And that remaining 10% corresponds mainly to the emissions generated by the HVO production process and not to its consumption,” they indicate.

It should be remembered that the renewable biofuel that Acciona will use will come from the second largest biofuel production facility in the United States, located in North Dakota, “thus promoting the economy and local innovation.”

The innovative initiative to use HVO in heavy machinery is part of Acciona’s emissions reduction program within its 2025 Sustainability Master Plan and is financed by the Decarbonization Fund of the same company. The purpose of the fund is to financially support “those initiatives that promote carbon neutrality in the company’s direct operations.” And they highlight that, in 2023, this fund is contributing to the financing of 17 decarbonization initiatives in different projects around the world.

Fargo-Moorhead

Acciona is executing the Fargo-Moorhead project together with Shikun & Binui USA and North American Construction Group through the ASN Constructors consortium. This initiative “has the power to give new life to communities and, from the consortium, we will contribute to this project of resilience to climate change protecting hundreds of thousands of people, their homes, businesses and livelihoods from the Red River flooding in the future.

Thus, they will build a 30-mile diversion channel around the Fargo, North Dakota metropolitan area, one diversion exit, two aqueducts, 14 drainage inlets, two interstate crossings, 12 county highway crossings, and three rail crossings. It will also operate and maintain the project for a period of 30 years.

Construction of the diversion channel will begin in the fall of 2022 and is scheduled for completion in 2027. And, once complete, it will protect more than 235,000 people from the catastrophic effects of potential Red River flooding.

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