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ScottMadden Partner Moderates NERC Compliance Panel
11/19/2009
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Cristin Lyons, head of ScottMadden’s transmission practice, will moderate a panel on NERC compliance at an Infocast webinar Friday, November 20, 1:00-2:30pm (Eastern). The panelists include NERC compliance experts from utilities and industry...More »
What Happened in Washington DC?
11/04/2009
By Clint Cox
I apologize for the delay in getting this story posted!
Let me start by saying that Infocast’s Conference held October 20-22 in Washington DC entitled “Managing Supply Chain Risks for Critical & Strategic Metals: Rare Earth Metals, Minor...More »
The Critical & Strategic Metals Shindig
10/28/2009
I know I’ve been rather lax in following up on my last post here, sent just before the Critical & Strategic Metals Conference in Washington DC last week. It was a most interesting event. It gave many folks a chance to interact with other parts of the supply chain...More »
U.S. gas midstream sector hopping, more deals seen
10/26/2009
By Anna Driver
HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas producers are parting with their pipeline and processing plants in some of the most established fields in a bet to woo investors with new discoveries.
This year, natural gas prices fell to their lowest levels in...More »
Strategic & Critical Metals in Washington, DC.
10/26/2009
I co-chaired a conference in Washington, DC, last week, Oct. 20-22, called "Supply Chain Management for Strategic & Critical Metals." It was an eye-opener for me with respect to both the current level of interest and of knowledge of this topic among private industry end...More »
Electric Cars Could Pose a Challenge to Rare Earth Supply in “Nightmare Scenario”
10/23/2009
Dr Irving Mintzer principal of MEG LLC, an energy consulting firm, described a “nightmare scenario” at the Critical & Strategic Metals Summit in Washington DC this week. Driven not by cost advantage but by a combination of government incentives, legislation and...More »
Rare Earths, Critical and Strategic Metals and the US Legislative Agenda
10/21/2009
Yesterday, we wrote a post on the notion of stockpiling and posed it as a question – should we or should we not stockpile? Today, Jeff Green addressed conference attendees of the Managing Supply Chain Risk for Critical & Strategic Metals and provided a legislative...More »
Tantalum industry in dire need of new resources
10/21/2009
By Chris Kelly
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A severe supply crunch has hit the tantalum industry, and stockpiles of the metal used primarily in consumer electronic products could run dry in as little as three years, an industry analyst said on Tuesday.
"The industry at the moment is living on stocks....More »
Live, From the Rare Earth Metals Summit
10/20/2009
Lisa Reisman and Stuart Burns will be blogging -- and video-blogging, if they can get their camera to work -- this week from the Rare Earth metals summit in DC. The formal title of the event is Managing Supply Chain Risks for Critical and Strategic Metals. Check out their...More »
Critical & Strategic Metals: The Big Pow Wow in Washington D.C.
10/19/2009
I’m currently in Washington D.C., ahead of a three-day meeting called “Managing Supply Chain Risks for Critical & Strategic Metals”. This meeting, co-chaired by Jack Lifton of Jack Lifton, LLC, and Lisa Reisman of Aptium Global, will no doubt be an...More »
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