Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) has invested C$565 million ($543 million) into three north-eastern British Columbia natural gas plays.  The state-run company has signed a three-year deal with Calgary-based gas giant EnCana for a 50 percent interest in land blocks in the Montney and Horn River Basin shale formations. The agreements cover 10,000 hectares of Horn River land and an additional 52,000 hectares of Montney land.


UK temporary power supplier Aggreko has won a £30 million contract to provide power for the football World Cup in South Africa this summer.


Bird Construction won the largest single-building construction project ever awarded by the Canadian Forces to build a new maintenance hangar for the CC-177 Globemaster III. April Terreri talks to project manager Shawn Stirling.

 

 


Building an outstanding reputation for construction in the San Francisco Bay Area is a challenge fraught with pitfalls. Yet for Nibbi Brothers General Contractors, the idiosyncrasies of each project represent a labor of love, as Andrew Pelis learns.

 


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Buying locally David Hendricks learns how Eastern Canadians, using the co-operative business model of Co-op Atlantic, are making a positive difference in the lives of their fellow citizens by helping to meet their economic, cultural and social needs, while improving their own lives as well. The concept of a co-operative, or co-op, goes back centuries and is loosely defined as an association of people who choose to unite to meet common economic, social and cultural needs through a jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprise.


Love that dirty water  FilterBoxx Packaged Water Solutions designs and builds skid-mounted, portable, packaged water and wastewater solutions for drilling, mining and pipeline camps, specializing in remote and harsh climate environments. Ric Larson finds out more.  Back in the mid-1960s a Los AngelesÔÇôbased garage-rock band known as The Standells rose to prominence with their hit song ÔÇ£Dirty Water,ÔÇØ which reached #11 on the Billboard charts in June 1966.


Buying locally David Hendricks learns how Eastern Canadians, using the co-operative business model of Co-op Atlantic, are making a positive difference in the lives of their fellow citizens by helping to meet their economic, cultural and social needs, while improving their own lives as well. The concept of a co-operative, or co-op, goes back centuries and is loosely defined as an association of people who choose to unite to meet common economic, social and cultural needs through a jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprise.


Culture change April Terreri talks with the vice president of Wabush Mines to learn more about his vision of inclusion among unionized and salaried employees. Up until about a year ago, going to work at Wabush Mines in Labrador was not a very pleasant experience. The relationship between union and salaried workers had long been tense and distrustful. But all that is changing since Gino Levesque took over as vice president and general manager of Wabush a little over a year ago.