We all know things have been pretty bad lately. The global economy tanked big time back in 2008 and has struggled to get a grip on things ever since. The high streets are hurting, retailers are closing down, and companies all over the place are in trouble.
Thirty years can suddenly seem a long time. Back in 1983, for instance, I was not even a father, let alone a grandfather. And some of HCB’s coverage of the emergency response sector seems positively antique.
Back in the mid-1990s, British Telecom, the UK’s telephone company (and, for younger readers, in those days there was only one) ran a very successful advertising campaign with the slogan: ‘It’s good to talk’.
Some people go into business to get rich, but not me, and that’s a good thing because this isn’t the best economy for making a living off regulatory compliance.
Writing from the extremely chilly viewpoint of spring 2013 in London, it is some slight comfort that the April 1983 edition of HCB dealt in large part with matters cryogenic, or at least refrigerated.
There are those, apparently, who are sceptical about the claims made for shale oil and gas and the impact these new energy streams are going to make on the global energy scene.
Was the March issue always a storage terminal number? It was in 1983, but where now are those optimistic operators listed as investing in new capacity?
Theoretically, I’m a SME, a Subject Matter Expert, capitalized and underlined. While not sure of the proper pronunciation of the acronym, it could be Smeh, or Sih-mee
