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Chernobyl New Safe Confinement Named One of the Most Influential Projects of the Last 50 Years

08 October 2019

Project Management Institute recognizes international team, including Bechtel

The international, 22-year effort to cover and seal off the damaged Chernobyl nuclear plant has been recognized as one of the 50 most influential projects of the past 50 years by the Project Management Institute, the global body for project management standards, certifications, and education.

The award came Monday at the organization’s 50th anniversary celebration in Philadelphia. [ 555 ]

“Completing the New Safe Confinement took an all-in effort by the whole team,” said Bechtel’s project manager, Oscar “Mac” McNeil. “It required international cooperation and ingenuity to overcome the challenges presented by radiation and the environment around the plant, not to mention the Ukrainian winters.”

Balthasar Lindauer, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) director of Nuclear Safety, said: “We are honored to receive this prestigious award. It is recognition of what the community of donors together with Ukraine was able to achieve in this unique display of international solidarity.”

EBRD is the only international financial institution with expertise in nuclear decommissioning and more than 30 years of expertise in managing donor-funded projects.

Bechtel led the consortium that performed an original design of the sports-stadium-sized arch that was slid over the reactor in 2016. NOVARKA, a joint venture of the French firms VINCI Construction and Bouygues Travaux Publics, performed the design and construction. The EBRD financed the project along with more than 40 donor nations.

Today, Bechtel is the project management unit, under contract to State Specialized Enterprise – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Bechtel ensures that engineering and construction meet the plant owner’s strict quality requirements.

At a cost of $1.6 billion, the giant structure is the most prominent element of the Shelter Implementation Plan for Chernobyl, which involved more than 300 projects and activities. The $2.3 billion program is financed by the Chernobyl Shelter Fund. EBRD manages the fund and is its largest contributor, providing $785 million to support Chernobyl projects.

The arch seals out wind, snow, and rain and confines radioactivity inside

NOVARKA assembled the arch away from the damaged reactor and then slid it into its final place on two massive rails.

The project was handed over to the Ukrainian authorities in July of 2019.

About Bechtel

Bechtel is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers’ objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Bechtel serves the Energy; Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; and Mining & Metals markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment, through start-up and operations. www.bechtel.com

https://www.bechtel.com/newsroom/releases/2019/10/chernobyl-new-safe-confinement-influential-project/

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The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World Paperback– February 14, 2017

From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the “compelling corporate history” (The National Book Review) and inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they’ve controlled since the construction of the Hoover Dam.

The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. “Dad” Bechtel, who led a consortium thatconstructed the Hoover Dam.They would go on to “build the world,” from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations around the globe. In their century-long quest,five generations of Bechtel men have harnessed and distributed much of the planet’s natural resources,including solar geothermal power. Bechtel is now one of thelargest privately held corporationsin the world.

The Bechtel Group has eclipsed its few rivals, with developments in emerging and third world nations that includesecret military installations and defense projects; underground bunkersin Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan; oil pipelines and entire cities in the Middle East; palaces for Arab rulers, such as theSaudi Royal Family;andchemical plants for Arab dictators.

Like all stories of empire building, the rise of Bechtel—one of the first mega companies to emerge in the American West—presents a complex and riveting narrative.Veiled in obsessive secrecy,Bechtel has hadcloser ties to the US government than any other private corporation in modern memory.“Riveting and revealing” (Kirkus Reviews), The Profiteers is one of the biggest business and political stories of our time.

sauce: amazon, won't let me post link

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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Chernobyl Shelter Fund

The Chernobyl Shelter Fund (CSF) was set up at the EBRD in 1997 to assist Ukraine in making the site of the temporary shelter over Chernobyl's destroyed reactor 4 stable and environmentally safe.

The New Safe Confinement (NSC) also aims to create the conditions for the eventual dismantling and decommissioning of the contaminated structure.

To achieve these goals,the Chernobyl Shelter Fund financesthe implementation of the so-called Shelter Implementation Plan which also creates the conditions for the eventual dismantling and decommissioning of the contaminated structure under a national long-term strategy.

The initiative for the establishment of the CSF wasled by the G7 governments, the European Commission and Ukraineand was announced at the 1997 G7 summit inDenver.

More governmentsdeclared their support at subsequent pledging conferences in New York (1997), Berlin (2000), London (2005), Kiev (April 2011) and London (2015).

Thefollowing contributors are membersof the CSF:

Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Community, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The following countries have madedonations:

Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Korea, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, the Slovak Republic , Slovenia and Turkey.

The fund has received more than€ 1.6 billion from 45 donors to date.

The EBRD is providing €480 million of its own resources to support the New Safe Confinement and the Shelter Implementation Plan at Chernobyl.

https://www.ebrd.com/what-we-do/sectors/nuclear-safety/chernobyl-shelter-fund.html

global money laundering to finance deep state construction / activities

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George Shultz, former President of Bechtel, passes at 100

08 February 2021

The distinguished statesman, public servant, and renowned economist led the company to global expansion and signature projects.

Bechtel announced today that its former President, George P. Shultz, passed in California on February 7, 2021 at the age of 100.

“We lost a great friend and trusted advisor with George’s passing,” said Brendan Bechtel, the company’s chairman and CEO. “George was a distinguished statesman, dedicated public servant, and renowned economist. He was also an accomplished businessman who helped guide Bechtel’s global expansion and its development as a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and governments.”

When Shultz first joined Bechtel in 1974 as executive vice president, he already had more experience and accomplishments at age 53 than most people achieve in a lifetime. In addition to teaching economics and business atMIT and the University of Chicago,he served assenior economist to President Eisenhower and as Secretary of Labor and Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon….

Shultz was elected president of Bechtel Corporation in 1975. Under his watch, the company embarked on many of its signature projects, including the Palo Verde nuclear power plant in Arizona, Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia, and thecleanup of Three Mile Islandin Pennsylvania.

In 1982, Shultz returned to government service asSecretary of State under President Reagan.When the Reagan presidency ended, Shultz sought new challenges and found one of them in a familiar place. In 1989, he rejoined Bechtel as a director and served until April 26, 2006. He helped forge new generations of Bechtel leaders with his sound advice and invaluable experience.

Shultz passed away at his home near Stanford University, where he was a long-time Fellow at theHoover Institutionon campus. His Bechtel family extends sympathy to his wife, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, and his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

https://www.bechtel.com/newsroom/releases/2021/02/george-schultz-former-bechtel-president-passes/

The firms that land the contract are also likely to make the short list for future projects in Iraq, which include plans to develop the country's oil industry.

Bechtel,the engineering giant that employed the likes of formerDefense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of State George Schultz and former CIA Director William Caseybefore they took their government posts, gave$1.3million in individual, PAC and soft money contributions between 1999 and 2002.

As it prepares its bid for the postwar project, Bechtel is facing allegations that it contributed to Iraq's military buildupnearly two decades ago.

Bechtel was among 24 U.S. companies thatsupplied Iraq with weapons during the '80s.

Bechtel has aseries of links with the Bush administrationand those pressing hardest for war within it. Bechtel’s Chairman and Chief Executive Riley Bechtel was recently appointed to President Bush’s export council. Jack Sheehan, a senior Vice-President of Bechtel, is a member of the Defence Policy Board, the Pentagon advisory council that lobbied hard for war.George Shultz,a former US Secretary of State and another Bechtel board member, was chairman of theCommittee to Liberate Iraq,a fiercely pro-war group with close ties to the White House. Bechtel has been put in charge of repairing power and water systems in Iraq – worrying sincethe company is one of the top water privatisation companiesin the world. In Bolivia Bechtel was forced to quit the country after a massive hike in water prices caused unrest. [WATCH THE WATER?]

Iraq was seen as a prize because it has the world’ssecond largest oil reserves– more than 10% of the world’s existing stock. Kellogg, Brown & Root (KB&R), a subsidiary of the US energy company Halliburton has won a $600M contract for initial repairs to Iraq’s oilfields and a further $600M contract for the pumping of oil. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former Chief Executive of Halliburton. KB&R also has the contract for running military camps in Iraq – part of a 10 year deal with the US military that has already netted $830m for the company. Iraq’s national oil company has been put in charge of Philip J. Carroll, the former chief executive of Shell Oil, USA. The three biggest oil companies ExxonMob, Shell and BP earned almost $16Bn (£10Bn) in the first three months of this year as the drive to war pushed oil prices up to $35 a barrel. Exxon reported the biggest quarterly corporate profits in history at $7Bn. Shell, BP & ChevronTexaco , also notorious for its close links to the Bush administration, are now shipping oil out of Iraqi. Recently anti-war protestors blockaded the port of Oakland, California when the first shipment of Iraqi crude since the war arrived in the USA.

http://www.greatdreams.com/political/bechtel.htm

“Water, water everywhere and Bechtel owns most of it”

… Bechtel, like all the rest of the handful of big corporations that effectively rule America, have their roots in the post-WWII economic ‘boom’ and the hysteria of the ‘Red Menace’. Following the end of WWII, the US had a massive industrial war economy that had to be fed. One trough to feed at was the American public…

https://themillenniumreport.com/2014/09/water-water-everywhere-and-bechtel-owns-most-of-it/

It [Bechtel] develops, constructs and operates telecommunications projects, construction management software, water systems, petroleum and chemical plants, pipelines, nuclear power plants, mining and metal projects and civil infrastructure projects. In 2001, the company participated in 950 projects in 67 different countries, doing $13.4 billion in gross revenue.”

“With the help of Stephen Bechtel Sr.’s connections in theAtomic Energy Commission (AEC),Bechtel Corporation quickly grew to be thedominant player in the business of nuclear powerafter it was chosen by the United States Government in 1959 to build the first nuclear power plant in America.” [Uranium 1 connection?]

“Bechtel’s first connections to U.S. intelligence were with theOffice of Strategic Services (OSS) which used Bechtel (who at the time was building oil pipelines in Saudi Arabia) as a cover to monitor events in the Middle East. (MacCartney 1989)

Stephen Bechtel Sr.’s financial advisor, John Simpson was very tight with CIA deputy directorJohn Foster Dulles.Collaboration between the CIA andBechtel was instrumental in the toppling of both Iran’s Mossadeq and Indonesia’s Sukharno.In both cases pro-Western, repressive regimes were the successors – Reza Shah Pahlavi in Iran, and Suharto in Indonesia. (Montague 2000)

After Stephen Bechtel Sr.’s friend Steve McCone served on the chair of the AEC,John F. Kennedy made McCone director of the CIA(1961-1965) McCone was no friend to democracy during those years as he oversaw the CIA during a very scandalous period of American history scarred by the Kennedy assassination and U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Laos, Congo, and Chile to name a few.”

“One of Bechtel’s most lucrative relationships may have been its connections to theExport-Import Bank.Stephen Bechtel’s friend Henry Kearns was the head of the Bank and did Bechtel a wonderful favor by appointing Stephen Bechtel Sr. to the advisory board. During Stephen’s tenure on the board, the Export-Import Bank lent hundreds of millions of dollars to several different countries for the financing of Bechtel-related projects.”

Bechtel is a major player in the evolving struggle to control the world’s future water supply.Bechtel and its peers have quietly been securing the rights to control the ‘production’ and distribution of this essential resource and fully intend to make huge profits in the future when, as experts predict, water becomes a significantly scarce ‘commodity.’

Bechtel and other large corporations have been able toobtain legal title to much of the world’s water supply through the process of privatizationwhereby goods and services previously considered part of the public domain become the exclusive property of a wealthy class of elites. This latest appropriation of the ‘commons’ is done within a legal framework designed, developed, and enforced by international governmental agencies that are dominated by the very same wealthy elite that profit from the legislation it implements.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/corporation/profiles/bechtel.html