By financing the construction of the DeLong Mountain Transportation System in the icy Northwest, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority made the development of the world’s second-largest zinc mine possible. Karsten Rodvik and Jim Hemsath talk to Gay Sutton about how the project has boosted the region’s economic development.

Under the guidance of a new executive chairman with extensive mining experience, Tamerlane Ventures is raising the $120 million it will need to return the Pine Point mine to full production. Keith Regan learns how leveraging novel technologies and other operational improvements have altered the economics of the project.

While mankind continues to search the corners of the earth for adventure or resources, there will always be a need for safe, cost effective transportation. Dave Mathieson, president and chief pilot of Summit Air, tells Rob Harris about the innovative approach that has underpinned the company’s growth.

Rob Harris talks to Severn Trent De Nora, a leading provider of innovative water disinfection systems to the marine and offshore industries.

Water is undoubtedly our most precious natural resource—we can’t live without it, yet only three percent of the world’s water resources are fit for human consumption and almost 97 percent are in the oceans.  

However clever the internals might be, a building is judged from the outside. Alan Swaby talks to one of the construction industry’s most innovative suppliers.

ABB has won an order worth $43 million from South African electric utility Eskom to supply equipment for a new thermal power plant being built in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

The new Kusile coal-fired plant comprises six supercritical combustion units with a total generating capacity of 4,800 MW.

Walmart announced today that it has made a cash offer of $2.32 billion (16.5 billion rand) to acquire a controlling 51 percent interest in South Africa's Massmart Holdings Ltd, its first venture into sub-Saharan Africa.

Greenergy, a supplier of fuel to UK supermarket petrol stations, has launched a £1 billion bid to buy the UK retail network of Total France.

The French oil major, which is the world's fourth largest energy group, is selling its 780 petrol station forecourts as part of a review of its UK downstream operations.

Greenergy's new chief executive Paul Lester said he had held preliminary talks with Total about the sale.

David Gladding, senior global director of sales at ACT Conferencing, explains why, as we slowly emerge from recession, technology can help contribute to business as well as environmental sustainability.