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Rittal Systems Certified Great Place to Work
Rittal Systems Ltd. has been certified as a Great Place to Work by the Great Place to Work Institute Canada for the sixth straight year. The certification is based on feedback from employees, provided as part of an anonymous survey…
Bentley Systems Names Year in Infrastructure 2018 Award Winners
Bentley Systems Inc., announced the winners of the Year in Infrastructure 2018 Awards. The annual awards program honour the work of Bentley users advancing design, construction, and operations of infrastructure throughout the world. Twelve independent jury panels of industry experts…
Barrick Gold in talks with partners in China and Saudi Arabia on copper assets
TORONTO – Barrick Gold Corp. says it’s in talks with partners in China and Saudi Arabia on potential deals involving its copper assets as it looks ahead to its acquisition of Randgold Resources and an increased focus on African gold…
Roads reopen, business resumes in Langley, B.C., following ammonia leak
LANGLEY – All roads have reopened around an industrial park in the Township of Langley, south of Vancouver, almost two days after an ammonia leak forced an evacuation of the area. RCMP say roads around the industrial park reopened around…
Statistics Canada reports wholesale sales fell 0.1% to $63.6B in August
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says wholesale sales fell 0.1 per cent in August to $63.6 billion. Economists had expected no change to the figure for the month, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon. Sales were down in four of seven subsectors,…
Resolute invests $40 million in northern Ontario mills, creates 25 jobs
THUNDER BAY – Resolute Forest Products Inc. says it’s investing $40 million in its northwestern Ontario operations to reduce emissions, increase capacity, and modernize equipment. The company made the announcement as Premier Doug Ford and Natural Resources Minister Jeff Yurek…
Worker dies after being pinned by machine at Alberta chemical plant
RED DEER – An investigation by Occupational Health and Safety is underway after a worker was killed in an accident at an Alberta plant operated by Dow Canada. The department says the accident happened sometime between Tuesday evening and early…
Husky Energy vows to boost downstream output if it wins MEG hostile takeover
CALGARY – Husky Energy Inc. will increase its downstream capacity and thus “insulate” itself from recent large heavy oil price discounts if it succeeds in its hostile takeover of fellow oilsands producer MEG Energy Corp., CEO Rob Peabody said Thursday.…
Little hope seen for oilpatch activity growth as steep price discounts continue
CALGARY – The Canadian oil and gas sector is in a holding pattern in which spending and production growth can’t occur until new ways to get products to export markets are found, according to CIBC analyst Jon Morrison. The steep…
Northern Pulp confirms leak, immediate response at Nova Scotia mill
PICTOU, N.S. – The Northern Pulp mill in Nova Scotia says it took action immediately after discovering a leak from one of its effluent pipes over the weekend. The company says it was first notified of an effluent leak at…
Imperial Oil restarts Norman Wells, N.W.T., crude output after pipeline repairs
CALGARY – Imperial Oil Ltd. has restarted oil production at Norman Wells in the Northwest Territories almost two years after being forced to suspend shipments on a pipeline threatened by slope stability concerns at a Mackenzie River crossing near Fort…
Feds dead set against ‘ridiculous’ quotas to replace steel, aluminum tariffs
WASHINGTON – Canada is not about to agree to quotas or other limits on its exports in order to get the United States to lift punishing tariffs on steel and aluminum, says a source close to the ongoing talks to…
Canadian manufacturing sales fell 0.4 per cent in August: Statistics Canada
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 0.4 per cent to $58.6 billion in August, due to a drop in motor vehicle sales. Economists had expected a drop of 0.6 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon. Sales were…
Company extracting metals from asbestos waste gets $12M from Ottawa
Ottawa gave $12 million on Friday to help a company extract magnesium from the waste of closed asbestos mines – despite warnings from Quebec’s public health officers that the province’s workplace protections are still lacking. The federal funding for Alliance…
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PEMAC Names Award Winners at MainTrain Conference
As part of the MainTrain conference, Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC) held an awards dinner at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. The first-ever PEMAC Maintenance Team of the Year – Large Organization award was presented…
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PEMAC Hosts MainTrain Conference in Ottawa
Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC) recently held its MainTrain conference at the Brookstreet Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario. The theme for 2018 was Connect, Learn, Contribute. The event hosted nearly 200 attendees with 37 total presentations, 33 exhibitors…
Enbridge to begin building road to access pipeline explosion site in B.C.
VANCOUVER – Enbridge Inc. says it has begun construction of a temporary access road to the site of a natural gas pipeline explosion in Prince George, B.C. In a news release issued Sunday the company says construction will take a…
Union launches ‘Ships Stay Here’ campaign to keep shipbuilding work in Halifax
HALIFAX – Shipbuilders at Halifax’s Irving Shipyard have launched a campaign to keep their work in Nova Scotia, as concerns mount over the possibility of repair work on Halifax-class navy ships being transferred to Davie Shipbuilding in Quebec. Members of…
Oilsands bitumen prices fall into negative territory, analyst calculates
CALGARY – A financial analyst says prices being paid for Western Canadian oilsands bitumen have fallen so far that many producers are losing money on every barrel sold into the spot market. Analyst Matt Murphy of Tudor Pickering Holt &…
GFL Environmental buying U.S. company Waste Industries in deal valued at $3.65B
Toronto-based GFL Environmental Inc. has signed a deal to buy Waste Industries in an agreement that values the U.S. company at about $3.65 billion. The deal will more than double GFL’s footprint in the United States. “Waste Industries strongly complements…
