
IGI Poseidon and Corinth Pipeworks Join Forces to Shape the Future of Hydrogen Transportation IGI Poseidon, a joint venture between Greece’s DEPA International Projects and Italy’s Edison S.p.A., and Corinth Pipeworks, global leader in steel pipe manufacturing and pipeline solutions, are proud to announce their collaboration to advance the safe and efficient transportation of hydrogen through high-pressure offshore pipelines. This partnership reflects a shared commitment to address one of the key challenges of the green energy transition: enabling hydrogen to become a reliable, scalable energy carrier. As the global transition to clean energy accelerates, hydrogen has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable energy strategies. Its unique potential to decarbonize industries and energy systems makes it invaluable, but transporting hydrogen, especially under high-pressure conditions, needs additional engineering and material understanding. IGI Poseidon and Corinth Pipeworks are tackling this challenge through a shared commitment to innovation and expertise. CEO at IGI Poseidon, said : Chairman of the Board at IGI Poseidon, emphasized the importance of the partnership: “ Corinth Pipeworks, leading steel pipe manufacturer brings unmatched expertise to the initiative. General Manager at : The joint initiative focuses on extensive testing campaign of carbon steel linepipe (X70), currently used for natural gas offshore transportation, in 100% hydrogen environment and under high-pressure. Specifically, the qualification of the pipeline has been performed simulating severe operation conditions to evaluate the effect of hydrogen on material mechanical properties, thorough a set of different tests and analysis which include slow strain rate tensile test (SSRT), fracture toughness (FT), fatigue crack grow rate (FCGR) and a preliminary Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA) at high pressure. These activities aim to define and verify the Hydrogen Readiness of the steel material for offshore natural gas application at high pressure (200-300 bar), reaching new boundaries in the realization of energy interconnectors. This initiative highlights the critical role of partnerships in driving technological advancements in hydrogen infrastructure. Together, IGI Poseidon and Corinth Pipeworks are laying the groundwork for a sustainable energy future, aligning with Europe’s green energy goals and reinforcing its position as a leader in innovation. The first results of this campaign will be presented in 2025 the latest news shaping the hydrogen market at IGI Poseidon and Corinth Pipeworks Join Forces to Shape the Future of Hydrogen Transportation Hydrogen: 5 things to look for in 2025 – Wood Mackenzie 2025 promises to be a pivotal year for the low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia sectors. Despite persistent challenges – such as cost pressures, securing offtake... North Queensland Hydrogen Consortium launches school holiday program The North Queensland Hydrogen Consortium (NQH2) and Townsville Enterprise is excited to announce the launch of its Fuels for Future school holiday... Helium Conservation by Diffusion Limited Purging of Liquid Hydrogen Tanks The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has developed an analytical model that predicts diffusion between two gases during piston purging...By Louis Collins Housing has been one of the trickiest portfolios for successive governments. Its quality, supply, warmth, and affordability have all been problems. Theories about how to fix 'the housing crisis' are common. Suburban New Zealand is thick with ex-state houses. They show that housing has been in crisis before, and has been managed. Nearly a century since the first state houses, they remain a crucial service. Kāinga Ora's 72,000-plus properties make it the largest residential landlord in the country. Debt loads, hefty waiting lists and a mismatch between available housing and what is needed are identified as issues. During the annual review of Kāinga Ora this week , Housing Minister Chris Bishop told the Social Services Committee 60 percent of people on the housing register required one-bedroom homes, but only about 10 percent of the ministry's homes fit the bill. Bishop suggested the problem was also true of New Zealand housing stock generally. "It all comes down to rent and affordability, and we just have an undersupply of houses across the continuum... [The wait-list] people classified as 'in severe and urgent need of housing' ... can't afford the private rental market because we haven't built enough houses over the last 30 years, when we've had the fastest house price growth in the OECD... and we've made it nearly impossible to build housing in this country." Bishop is also the minister for RMA reform - an area he seems passionate about. During the Kāinga Ora hearing, Bishop lamented low land availability and regulation as barriers to housing, saying "the evidence is really clear". "Cities that have functional land markets and infrastructure that is allowed to be built without barrier after barrier in the way, have cheaper and affordable housing." Nodding supportively beside Bishop was his junior minister, Tama Potaka, responsible for emergency housing. In Question Time some questions are known in advance and deflection is easy. There are fewer escapes in an annual review hearing. Labour MP Kieran McAnulty suggested Potaka was avoiding questions. "Whenever we've tried to ask you about this in the House, frankly, it's been dismissed," McAnulty said. "At least give us an acknowledgement that the change in criteria has played a part in the reduction of the emergency housing numbers." Potaka didn't give McAnulty as straight an answer as he wanted. "In terms of the declines, there has been a slight increase in the number of applications that have been declined, but nearly 50 percent of those that have been declined in the month of October were actually triaged and helped in a different way to get into housing, not into emergency housing. So I think there's some 'good news stories', and how we are making sure that the system operates in a manner to help people get into housing that is not emergency housing." There certainly isn't an easy fix to housing - results will take time. The combined housing and emergency portfolios require both addressing short-term needs, while also working to fix systemic housing issues over the longer term. It's a role unlikely to show real success until years after a minister has departed. RNZ's The House , with insights into Parliament, legislation and issues, is made with funding from Parliament's Office of the Clerk. 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An English translator and anticolonial activist who championed efforts that led to the United Nations resolution ending Algeria's war of independence from France blasted Israel's war in Gaza at a special screening of a documentary about the Algerian war in New York on Friday. Elaine Mokhtefi had a significant but behind-the-scenes role in Algeria's fight for independence working as a translator and activist to help Algerian delegates craft their messaging for addressing the U.N. when much of the world was pressured by the colonial power France and its ally, the United States. She attended the screening of organized by art historian Maura McCreight at the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown Manhattan. Mila Turajlic, the director of the 2022 documentary, also attended with a lively crowd of viewers from North African countries like Tunisia. "What struck me watching Mila's film was how stories of revolutionary struggle, transnational solidarity, and the power of visual media remained as urgent today as ever," McCreight said. "I am referring to the 76-year-long struggle of the Palestinians, human rights, and the innate right of all human beings on Palestinian soil to self-determination." The film specifically follows the late Stevan Labudović, a Yugoslavian cameraman who was handpicked by President Josep Broz Tito in 1960 to document the Algerian war because he saw parallels between Algerian resistance and the resistance of Yugoslavians against Nazi occupation during World War II. "It was a difficult period where no one in the United States was interested and people knew little about Algeria and less about the war and were very influenced by the French," Mokhtefi said. The films Labudović made had an effect in chipping away at the tremendous influence of the French, Mokhtefi said. She noted that France released 20 colonies just to try to keep Algeria and it kept a heavy hand on those colonies when they became independent states. Mokhtefi said, "The United States backed France all the way to such a point that there was an American armament, American planes being used by the French, the French were being financed by the United States," which . To get his footage, Labudović embedded with Algerian militants-later described as terrorists by the and , much like Israel and the United States and their allies today describe Palestinian groups like Hamas. Mokhtefi noted before the film was screened that France had portrayed Algerian resistance fighters as anything but a real army, which it said doesn't exist. Israel likewise has denied Palestinians the right to a fighting force as it defines militias like Hamas as terrorists. "You'll see a real army," Mokhtefi said of how Labudović depicted the Algerians. Scenes from the film are resonant to anyone who has followed the Gaza war since it began on October 7, 2023. For example, Labudović points to the location of a refugee camp along Algeria's border with Tunisia and discusses protests and demonstrations in the streets of Algiers. The Yugoslavian cameraman was one of the few documenting the Algerian side of the conflict when French newsreels were showing pro-colonial propaganda. France engaged in efforts to remove him from the battlefield as his films were then shown within Algeria and to the United Nations to convince them to support Algerian independence. Likewise, Israel at least 135 journalists and media workers in Gaza and Lebanon since the war began, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. And earlier this year, the Israeli government Al Jazeera, forcing the news broadcaster to report from outside of Israel. After the war, Labudović films were locked away in a vault in what is now Serbia upon the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Viewing them requires special permission from the Algerian government, which granted Turajlic special access because her film focused on the life of Labudović-who is considered a national hero in Algeria. The French newsreels often said the Algerian people supported French colonialism similarly to how Israel often argues that its Arab citizens have full rights and representation, though human rights groups have . And French newsreels, like Israel's where dialogues like " " abound, paint the Arab population as void of a future without their intervention. "The French also made newsreels. What did their newsreels say," Turajlic asks Labudović at one point. He responded, "Their newsreels said the opposite of what I was making. They couldn't have told the truth, of how they tortured, so they told fairy tales." And while Palestinians , Israel has . "Who would accept an occupier who tortures and maims," Labudović said in the film. Later in the film, Labudović's wife notes that France didn't consider Algeria to be a colony. It considered it a part of France. Now, Israel's far-right politicians have as the country c . And while the United States of any U.N. Security Council draft resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel itself has pushed back against every U.N. agency that challenges it to . "At the moment our reporter's camera filmed this event, the U.N. began a debate on 'the Algerian question.' The French government refused to participate claiming the situation was an internal problem of France," an announcer on one of Labudović's newsreel reads in the documentary like a past echo of what is happening today. Mokhtefi told the crowd that, after the war, in 1968, she was walking in the streets of Algiers and people were crying from the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War as Israel clamped down on movement in occupied Palestinian territories and began the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements. "Friends of mine came to visit me and just sat on the couch and cried for Palestine and they had always had a strong feeling for them for their tragedy of the Palestinians, but they thought it was very close to their own struggle," Mokhtefi said. "I imagine that has continued today." Mokhtefi continued to work as a translator after the war and married an Algerian man who had fought in the war for independence. She also continued to be involved in elements of anticolonial activism, threading together representatives from various anti-colonial factions globally that visited Algeria for diplomatic or training purposes. Turajlic said she found correspondence between Mokhtefi and Kathleen Cleaver, a prominent leader of the Black Panther movement in the U.S. The translator helped the Black Panthers take a position on the decadeslong Palestinian conflict. In the 1970s, Labudović himself was sent to Palestine to make a documentary about Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization. "All of this footage is in Belgrade, none of it has been digitized and there is no project by the Serbian government to do so," Turajlic said of Labudović's Palestinian footage. And while students in the United States have received criticism for engaging in campus protests against the war in Gaza, Mokhtefi said that she too became involved with politics shortly after leaving high school. She blasted schools like Columbia University, near where she lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, for how they have handled the protests. "There was a really concerted strategy behind the media efforts to internationalize the question and to create a situation where it was morally untenable for France to remain in Algeria," Turajlic said after the screening. "I find it so striking that the same mechanism has been deployed today but the world isn't reacting in the way it reacted in the 1960s. Where is the world's moral outrage they managed to successfully harness in the 1960s that for some reason is missing today?"Brazilian police formally accused Bolsonaro of an attempted coup. What comes next?
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