Breaking the Ice on Arctic Development~Ireland's Future #2

One of the most crucial national projects now ongoing in Ireland represents a significant potential which must now be tapped and augmented as part of the strategic and scientific global re-alignment now in process. The work currently underway and the plans being developed, as outlined on the Marine Institute website, give an indication of this potential. Besides the tremendous, immediate economic benefits of, for example, the development of ship building industries and an engineering capability for the new field of deep-ocean mining, the key prize for a new Irish Republic is the prospect of a leadership role at the forefront of scientific exploration which may have untold significance for mankind in the future. In July of this year, the Celtic Explorer sailed for the hydrothermal vents around the mid-Atlantic Ridge on a groundbreaking mission to research and catalogue the "alien" deep-sea chemosynthetic life forms which live without sunlight off of the heat-energy and chemicals which erupt from these ocean-floor vents. Patrick Collins, from the National University of Ireland Galway's Ryan Institute, was on board to catalogue and characterize the various species found at the vents. Collins leads Ireland's marine biological team currently investigating this unique and extraordinary ecosystem. Collins said that this research could give us valuable insight about how life might have evolved on other planets, as well as being a rich source of new understanding of biochemical ...
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Intercontinental London Park Lane Hotel 5 June 2012 President Benigno S. Aquino III attended his first business meeting with the executives of Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corporation (PASAR) and Glencore International on the second day of his Official Visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Glencore is a majority owner of PASAR which operates the only copper smelter and refinery in the Philippines. For 25 years, it has been producing electrolytic copper cathode for export that was registered with the London Metal Exchange (LME) as Grade A Copper in 1984. The PASAR plant complex occupies 80 hectares inside the Leyte Industrial Development Estate. The smelter processes 720000 tons of copper concentrate a year, or 60000 tons a month, and the refinery has an annual capacity of 215000 tons of cathodes. In the meeting, PASAR and Glencore executives informed the President of their plan to invest 0-600 million to expand smelting capacity and build a power plant to support their operations. Glencore International is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland and is a leading producer and marketer of commodities, with worldwide activities in the marketing of metals and minerals, energy products and agricultural products, as well as the production, refinement, processing, storage and transport of these products. It employs about 3000 people in its global marketing operations in some 50 offices in over 40 countries. In its industrial operations ...