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The project in Western Australia is expected to cut emissions at the nickel production facility by 12%
and improve electricity supply reliability with the addition of the battery storage system
Image: Wikimedia Commons/ASCOM Prefeitura de Votuporanga
A unit of Calgary-based TransAlta Renewables plans to build a solar-plus-storage project in Australia to support local operations of BHP Nickel West
The Northern Goldfields Solar Project is planned to include the 27.4 MW Mount Keith Solar Farm
10.1 MW / 5.4 MWh Leinster battery energy storage system
and interconnecting transmission infrastructure
all of which will be integrated into TransAlta Australia’s 169 MW Southern Cross Energy North network in Western Australia
The network and new generation will support BHP as it works to meet its emissions reduction targets and deliver lower-carbon nickel to customers
The project is expected to cut emissions by 12%
and operate the Northern Goldfields Solar Project
Total construction capital is estimated at A$73 million ($54 million)
TransAlta Australia entered into an engineering
and construction agreement with Juwi Renewable Energy
The project has a 16.3-year power purchase agreement with BHP
Final Notice to Proceed is expected during the third quarter
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Votuporanga, Brazil - 15 December 2018 – On Saturday 15 December, in the cathedral "Our Lady of Aparecida" in Votuporanga, State of São Paulo, Brazil, the young Salesian deacon Eraclides Reis Pimenta was ordained priest by the laying on of hands and prayer consecration of Msgr. Paulo Mendes Peixoto, metropolitan archbishop of Uberaba.
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ABC NewsBrazilian pries grandson from anaconda's death gripShare Brazilian pries grandson from anaconda's death gripTopic:Human Interest
Matheus Pereira de Araujo, 8, stands in front of the anaconda that attacked him. (Glauce Sereno/Diario de Votuporanga : Reuters)
Link copiedShareShare articleA 66-year-old Brazilian man wrestled with a five-metre anaconda for nearly half-an-hour to free his grandson from the snake's crushing death grip, local media reported overnight.
Eight-year-old Matheus Pereira de Araujo would likely be dead inside the belly of the 35 kilogram anaconda if his grandfather had not heard his screams for help, zoologists said.
Anacondas, the biggest snakes in the world, live in swamps and rivers.
They kill prey by asphyxiation or drowning.
When the snake struck on Wednesday, Matheus, who lives in the the world's third largest metropolis of Sao Paulo, was playing with a cousin in a creek bed on his grandfather's farm 500 kilometres from the city in a town called Cosmorama.
"It was very fast," the boy said.
"I didn't have time to do anything."
"My grandfather is a hero - I was so afraid of dying."
Joaquim Pereira was driving home when he heard the screams of Matheus and his cousin Flavio, who ran to get help.
Mr Pereira jumped into the ravine and grappled with the snake, which started coiling around him as well.
"I started fighting the animal and tried to loosen its grip on the boy's neck but the snake was too strong," Mr Pereira told the Bom Dia newspaper of Sao Jose do Rio Preto.
Mr Pereira then attacked it with stones and a machete.
"I kept hitting it with the machete but it felt like a rubber tire, it wouldn't tear," he said.
He killed it after a long struggle to free the boy, who needed 21 stitches on his chest where the snake bit him.
"It was the most terrible scene that I've seen in my life," Mr Pereira said.
"It was totally coiled around him while he was screaming that he was dying."
Senator Eduardo Suplicy said Mr Pereira should be honoured by the Brazilian Government for heroism.
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