Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information Solar panels at the Renewable Energy Systems solar park in Laudun L'Ardoise 2022 at 10:48 AM EDTBookmarkSaveLock This article is for subscribers only.The European Union should set an ambitious goal for boosting solar energy capacity across the region as it seeks to free itself from a dependency on Russian gas The bloc should have at least 1,000 gigawatts of photovoltaics installed in the region by 2030 -- equivalent to roughly the world’s current capacity -- according to a joint letter signed by Austria Luxembourg and Spain to the bloc’s climate chief Frans Timmermans and Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson The EU can deploy at least 70 million solar rooftops by the end of the decade it said Number of people who can claim compensation over treatment of those who fought for French in war of independence to rise The French government is to pay reparations to thousands more Algerians and their families held in internment camps in France after the north African country’s war of independence Acting on a report by an independent commission the government agreed to increase the number of Harkis and their relatives eligible to claim compensation for being forced to live in deplorable and squalid living conditions several decades ago Up to 200,000 Algerians were recruited to fight alongside French colonial forces or as “auxiliaries” in the war for independence between 1954 and 1962 The word Harki comes from the Arabic for “movement” and referred to the mobile units in which many of the Algerians served Paris had promised to look after them at the end of the conflict but then left them to fend for themselves after independence was signed on 18 March 1962 Many of those trapped in Algeria and branded traitors were massacred in revenge for supporting the country’s former colonial masters An estimated 42,000 Harkis and around the same number of relatives who fled to France were held in camps that led to the deaths of dozens of children between 1962 and 1975 The French government initially refused to recognise their right to stay France held its firs national day to honour the Harkis in 2001 but it was not until 2016 that the Socialist president formally recognised the state’s role in abandoning them “I recognise the responsibility of French governments in abandoning the Harkis the massacres of those who remained in Algeria and the inhumane conditions of those transferred to camps in France,” Hollande said at the time Emmanuel Macron asked for “forgiveness” on behalf of France for leaving the Harkis and their families to their fate after independence the French government recognised the country’s responsibility for “the indignity of the hosting and living conditions on its territory” and the “exclusion It passed a law giving reparations to those who had lived in 89 internment camps of up to €3,000 (£2,600) for those held for a year and an extra €1,000 for every subsequent year about 50,000 Harkis were expected to be eligible for reparations at a total cost of €310m a report by the national independent commission for the recognition and reparation of prejudices suffered by the Harkis (CNIH) identified 45 new sites where up to 14,000 Harkis and their families were forced to live The decision to enlarge the possibility for Harkis and their relatives to claim compensation came after the CNIH report was submitted to the French prime minister the secretary of state for veterans’ affairs and memory said the decision would go some way to “make amends for a new injustice including in regions where until now the suffering of the Harkis living there were not recognised” By 2023-03-27T09:01:00+01:00 on behalf of French construction company Eiffage Génie Civil has utilised an Enerpac JS-250 jack-up system to install a 220-tonne railway bridge in Laudun L’Ardoise near Avignon Aertssen Cranes first had to position two 350-tonne abutments before the bridge deck could be installed over the weekend two JS-250 lifting beams were connected to two header beams which held the bridge in place with rope slings an SPMT equipped with climbing jacks was positioned under the bridge The unit was then lowered onto the SPMT and then transported and installed on the abutments “The JS-250 jack-up system’s small footprint makes it advantageous for use in a confined construction site like we had here,” said Manuel Aertssen Image source: Aertssen Cranes; lowering the bridge deck onto the SPMT and climbing jacks “At the request of the main contractor we needed to execute a test lift of all our equipment 48 hours before the final installation with SPMTs we were able to lower the bridge deck to a safer height without losing valuable time during the final installation preparations.” Polish heavy lift contractor MS Industry used an Enerpac SBL1100 hydraulic gantry for the installation of transformers at the Baltic Power substation Belgium-based Aertssen Logistics will open a facility in Rincon Georgia just 12 miles (19.3 km) from the port of Savannah Enerpac Heavy Lifting Technology’s engineers in the Netherlands have tested a Super Boom Lift 600 (SBL600) hydraulic telescopic gantry ahead of its shipment to Australia Shipyard and construction company Ravestein is delivering a ro-ro pontoon for Peel Ports Group in the UK Mexico’s Tradelossa recently completed a complex heavy haul operation for an important energy sector development in the north of the country Jan De Nul started the monopile foundation installation campaign for RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm Heavy lift vessel Les Alizés has installed the first of 72 monopiles for Denmark’s largest wind farm to date Site powered by Webvision Cloud Tony Gallopin enjoyed a career first time trial win on the final stage of the Etoile de Besseges with race leader Lilian Calmejane (Direct Energie) second to the Lotto Soudal man Calmejane did enough to hold off Gallopin by five second and claim the overall victory. Mads Würtz Schmidt (Katusha-Alpecin) was fourth on the stage and was bumped down third place overall