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100 employees evacuated, operations shut down immediately after explosion UPPER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. - A small explosion at the Samuel Adams brewery in Lehigh County injured two employees and forced the evacuation of about 100 others, officials said. The explosion happened shortly before noon Thursday inside the boiler room of the brewery, which is located adjacent to Interstate 78, near Route 100, in Upper Macungie Township. Workers were starting up one of the boilers when the explosion happened, said Michelle Sullivan, a spokeswoman for the Boston Beer Company, who added that the boiler room is a free-standing structure at the brewery. Employees immediately called 911, shut down all operations and evacuated the brewery's buildings, as per the company's protocol, Sullivan said. Two workers were treated at the scene for minor injuries. One complained of eye irritation; the other suffered a bump on the head, Sullivan said. Samuel Adams brewery, Upper Macungie Twp., Lehigh Co. Hazardous materials crews responded to the scene because asbestos had been used to wrap pipe in the boiler room, said Sullivan, who noted that an environmental monitoring expert was also brought in by the brewery to monitor the air quality. The company was given the all-clear by the fire marshal and the fire department, who determined the air quality to be good and the building structurally safe, Sullivan said. Brewing has not yet resumed, but Sullivan said that packaging and shipping operations have returned to normal. Copyright 2012 WFMZ. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

BP heeft vandaag aangekondigd het is annuleren plannen om te bouwen van een commerciële schaal cellulose-ethanolfabriek in Highlands County, Florida en de Amerikaanse strategie voor biobrandstoffen richten op onderzoek en ontwikkeling, alsmede licenties zijn industry-leading biobrandstoffen technologie. "Gezien de grote en groeiende portefeuille van investeringskansen beschikbaar voor BP wereldwijd, wij geloven het is in het beste belang van onze aandeelhouders om herschikken van het grote kapitaal dat nodig is om te bouwen van deze faciliteit in andere aantrekkelijker projecten," zei Geoff Morrell, BP vicepresident van communicatie. BP oorspronkelijk aangekondigd plannen om te bouwen van de Florida faciliteit in 2008 met de bedoeling te draaien duizenden hectaren van energiegewassen in 36 miljoen liter per jaar van cellulose-ethanol. Terwijl de beëindiging van haar streven naar commerciële schaal cellulose-ethanol productie in de VS, BP blijft investeren in en bedienen van haar wereldklasse biobrandstoffen onderzoeksfaciliteit in San Diego, Californië, en een demonstratie-fabriek in Jennings, Louisiana, verder ontwikkelen van de volgende generatie cellulose biobrandstoftechnologieën en licentie voor commercieel gebruik in de VS en over de hele wereld. BP is wereldwijd een toonaangevende investeerder in commerciële biobrandstoffen productie. Het bedrijf heeft afgerond bouw van zijn joint venture 110 miljoen liter per jaar ethanolfabriek Hull, Engeland, die naar verwachting later dit jaar online komen. In Brazilië, BP nam eigendom van drie suikerriet-ethanol molens gelegen in de staten Goiás en Minas Gerais van Brazilië in 2011 en groeit momenteel productie daar. Bovendien, BP is het ontwikkelen van geavanceerde biobrandstoffen technologie via haar joint venture investeringen in biobutanol bedrijf Butamax. Over BP in de VS: BP heeft meer geïnvesteerd in de Verenigde Staten in de afgelopen vijf jaar dan elk ander bedrijf van olie en gas. Met meer dan 52 mi

bp holdings article code 85258080768, Feeding Frenzy fraud watch In the months after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded 300 miles off Florida's coast in April 2010, hotel and restaurant owners, fishermen and shopkeepers kept a grim vigil, waiting to see whether the millions of gallons of spilled oil would taint the state's beaches and harm its seafood. From a distance, thousands of others watched too, the Canadian, European and American tourists and business travelers who had hoped to rent the Tampa Bay, Sarasota or Naples hotel rooms, dine at the restaurants, shop at the stores, and meet in the conference halls along the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, many traveled elsewhere. Although no flocks of oil-soaked pelicans washed up on Florida's shores, and the 200 million spilled gallons did not blacken beaches as so many feared, the coastal communities and their businesses were nonetheless damaged by the BP oil spill, through economic losses - the visitors who never came. That is the contention of cities and counties, and thousands of business owners whose revenues fell in the months following the disaster. A number of Florida resorts and other businesses that sought early compensation for their losses - the plunge in expected revenue - found their requests denied, although London-based BP had set up a $20 billion fund for victims. But the firms couldn't prove their revenue declines were related to the spill. In December, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans gave final approval to a $7.8 billion partial class-action settlement providing for economic and property damages from the spill, including those in Florida. BP separately agreed to pay $4.5 billion in penalties and pleaded guilty to felony misconduct in the disaster, which cost 11 lives. Barbier now is presiding over a trial to determine whether BP was grossly negligent, with another $17 billion in potential penalties at stake. A new, streamlined process recognizes losses farther from the ex