Kvaerner is responsible for one of the largest and most complex engineering projects in history called âTroll Aâ. It is a gas production platform and the tallest structure ever moved by man relative to the earth. It has a gravity based structure (GBS), with a concrete substructure of 1,234 feet (376 m). The total height from the seabed to the tip of the flare is 1,579 feet (481 m), almost half a kilometer.
Or worried-ish. But rest assured that, unlike their peers up at Molson Coors in Canada, the approximately 2,800 employees at MillerCoors in Golden will continue to get their 864 free beers a year ... for now.
Instead, the focus of the Environmental Protection Agency is to eliminate coal as a fuel by creating a set of air regulations that are driven much more by political ideology than by science. The coal mining industry in the United States employs 1.16 million people. In effect, the Environmental Protection Agency, known as the EPA, is intent on eliminating many of these high paying jobs with the mantra that they will be replaced by alternative energy jobs.