Covanta gets more time to save Tampa Bay

The troubled contractor’s bankruptcy move has won it at least three more months. GWI’s US correspondent Larry Chertoff looks at the chances of the desal plant’s success.

In a quick hearing on 25 November, United States bankruptcy judge Cornelius Blackshear refused to grant Tampa Bay Water [Authority] a restraining order to remove Covanta Tampa Construction Company from the Tampa Bay desalination facility. The judge further refused to grant Tampa Bay Water a longer-term injunction that would have allowed the authority to operate the plant while trying to ...

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