Fort McMurray News December 9th 2010

Aecon Group signs $25 million contract for water treatment plant within Alberta

Aecon Group Corporation, says it’s nabbed a $25-million agreement from Bird Construction Company, to upgrade and expand its drinking water treatment plant in Fort McMurray, Alta.

The contract, through Aecon’s Lockerbie & Hole mechanical, will deliver mechanical providers for the pretreatment creating, as well as each raw water and filtered water transfer stations, amongst other amenities.

Other parts from the contract include demolition of an existing office building as well as construction of the new procedures centre, which the Lockerbie & Hole division will provide steaming for the drinking water treatment plant and mechanised services for that new buildings, it said.

The Toronto-based building company said work on the project has already started and it is expected to end up being finished within spring 2012.

“This agreement speaks to Aecon’s extensive experience in building and mechanical services for that water remedy industry,” said John Koenderman, chief executive associated with Aecon’s Industrial Group.

“This major upgrade is required to service the constantly expanding residential areas of Fort McMurray and we tend to be pleased to be doing the type of work in which all of us excel.”

Man dies from Fort McMurray building site

A man was found lifeless after a 20-foot drop Wednesday morning at a Syncrude construction site near Fort McMurray.

Around 11:30 a.m., the contract worker dropped into a space within a few scaffolding and into some duct work. Paramedics were unable to save the man after he or she was extricated.

The death occurred at the Mildred Lake sulphur dioxide emission reduction project, regarding 35 kms northwest of Fort McMurray. There were no witnesses to the fall.

RCMP and Work Health and Safety tend to be investigating. Age and identity of the guy, who proved helpful for Jacobs Industrial Services, is not released. A stop-work order has been given whilst OHS investigates the deadly fall.

Oil Barons win 2 out of three on the road

The Fort McMurray  Oil Barons took a visit down southern this past weekend break, facing away against 3 of the top teams within the South Department during a difficult three-games-in-three days journey.

The MOB started the actual trip from the Olds Grizzlys on Friday. And while they dominated the play, the MOB let the Grizzlys climb back into the game upon two events. They required a tight 4-3 guide into the finish of the third, before Markus Gerbrandt place the game

out of reach. Adam Johnson hidden an empty netter for the 6-3 win.

Fri also marked the debut of a brand new Oil Baron, defenseman Mike Higgins, who was acquired from the Quesnel Riches in a trade Wednesday last week.

Slip up against Oil

Sunday saw a little different story. The Mafia went up against the top-ranked Southern Division team, the Okotoks Oilers, misplaced 3-1 in a restricted game in which the penalty kill let them down.

They managed to maintain

the AJHL’s top goal scorer as well as point getter, Kyle Reynolds, to merely one aid, but couldn’t manage enough offence of their own to beat one of the top-scoring groups in the league.

Northern Classic packs the stands in Fort McMurray

Friday night’s Northern Classic was a huge success, having a record group of 5,726 on hand to view the Fort McMurray Oil Barons defeat the Drayton Valley Thunder 4-2 within the first junior A hockey game performed outdoors.

Following absorbing the actual uniqueness of the event, Oil Barons president Andrew Boutilier said it did not take long for fans to get involved with the spirit.

“The hockey had been outstanding and the crowd figured out quickly which there were 2 points at risk when, 5 minutes in, there was a fight,Inch Boutilier said.

“Many from the fans said hello was the best game they have ever observed.”

An outdoor rink with a grandstand that could hold 6,000 people was built-in three weeks.

Boutilier was especially thankful for Paul Craig, Craig Tkachuk and Paul Bryson for their help with the ice. Plans with regard to next year?

“It would be nice to move the outdoor game with other cities within the league,Inch Boutilier said.

On the ice, the actual defensive-minded Barons only obtained stronger in the experience.

“The outside game would be a great team-bonding event, a great encounter for the team to share together with the community,” said Fort McMurray coach Gord Thibodeau.

Edmonton Journal readers voices issue over international investment in Alberta’s oilsands

Thailand bought a 40-per-cent risk in Statoil’s Kai Kos Dehseh near Fort McMurray, the thermal oilsands task scheduled to begin producing 10,000 barrels a day at the begining of 2011.

Statoil also began steam injection in September within another oilsands my own expected to ultimately produce 300,000 barrels per day.

The content goes on to checklist four purchases of oilsands properties by Chinese language oil suppliers since 04 2009.

It’s full-steam forward for the Alberta oilsands in spite of top U.S. climate-change scientist James Hansen’s alerts in Oct: “To achieve a secure level of co2 emissions, we cannot have more coal-fired vegetation, no more oilsands or even shale oil.”

Talking about the oilsands, he said: “ … this appears like a gold mine. However it’s fool’s gold.”

Greenhouse-gas air pollution from the oilsands offers tripled since 1990.

In early October, Colin Baines, spokesperson for a Ough.K. number of businesses devoted to European goals of decreasing carbon pollutants, said: “To expand the oilsands is basically going the wrong manner.”

The Alberta federal government is not hearing nor could it be learning. It keeps ongoing the wrong way.

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