Pipeline expansion to create 500-plus job opportunities in Northern Ontario.Pipeline expansion to create 500-plus job opportunities in Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it Starting this month TransCanada Pipelines The TransCanada pipeline is a system of natural gas pipelines, up to 48 inches (1219 millimetres) in diameter, that carries gas through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. It is maintained by TransCanada PipeLines, LP. It is the longest pipeline in Canada. Ltd. plans to begin a $600-million expansion of its natural gas pipelines and compression stations in Northern Ontario. The project is expected to employ some 1,100 people in the north during peak construction periods. A good portion of these people are expected to be northerners, said Frank Dabbs, director of external communications for Calgary-based TransCanada Pipelines. From his Calgary office Dabbs explained that the hiring for the Northern Ontario portion of the expansion project will be conducted locally through the various related unions. "I would suspect that about half of the 1,100 people will be hired locally to install the pipeline," he said. TransCanada Pipeline's North Bay regional manager, Al Jorstad, clarified the statement. He said that approximately 300 temporary, skilled employees will be required for each of the three projects which make up the Northern Ontario expansion. In addition to the laborers, an additional 40 inspectors will be required for each site. Jorstad explained that a nucleus nucleus, in physics nucleus, in physics, the extremely dense central core of an atom. The Nature of the Nucleus Composition of only about 25 per cent will be regular TransCanada employees. The rest, he said, will be hired locally. The three projects will entail entail, in law, restriction of inheritance to a limited class of descendants for at least several generations. The object of entail is to preserve large estates in land from the disintegration that is caused by equal inheritance by all the heirs and by the ordinary the laying of 108.2 kilometres of pipeline in the Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. region and 124.1 kilometres of pipeline in the North Bay region. "In effect, what we are doing is going from two lines to three," said Dabbs. The 42-inch pipeline will add 19 per cent to the company's overall natural gas capacity, said Dabbs. Jorstad said the three projects will be "constructed between the Manitoba border and Englehart." Some of the construction on the northern-most portions of the expansion began in mid-December, said Jorstad. The remainder was to start the first week of this month. Construction has to be undertaken during the winter months due in part to environmental reasons and because heavy equipment operates more easily on frozen ground, said Dabbs. "The ideal conditions are no snow until freeze-up," he added. The winter project is expected to be complete sometime in late April. In May TransCanada Pipeline will lay an additional 84.7 kilometres of pipe in the Thunder Bay region and 105.4 kilometres of pipe in the North Bay region. Both projects are expected to be complete by Nov. 1. The construction campaign is part of an overall $2.6-billion national expansion for TransCanada Pipelines. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the company, much of the $2.6 billion will be "fed into manufacturing orders and payroll from Saskatchewan to Quebec, creating some 3,800 jobs during a two-year construction period." TransCanada Pipelines will be calling on steel pipe and compressor compressor, machine that decreases the volume of air or other gas by the application of pressure. Compressor types range from the simple hand pump and the piston-equipped compressor used to inflate tires to machines that use a rotating, bladed element to achieve manufacturers in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec for materials and equipment to fill orders. Billed as the largest single expansion since its Alberta-to-Quebec interprovincial pipeline was completed in 1957, TransCanada Pipelines' plan calls for the addition of 1,600 kilometres of pipe to the existing system. The expansion is expected to allow the company to ship an extra 832 million cubic feet of natural gas from Alberta daily to markets in both eastern Canada Eastern Canada (also the Eastern provinces) is the region of Canada generally considered to be east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces:
The pipeline connects with other systems at export points along the Canada/U.S. border. DOUGLAS MCDOUGALL Mc·Dou·gall , William 1871-1938. British-born American psychologist who theorized that human behavior is determined by both instinctive and intentional strivings. Staff Writer |
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