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Slight delay in BD3 launch date There is going to be a slight delay in the official opening target date for the Boundary Dam clean coal project, although just how long it will be is not known exactly. Robert Watson, president and CEO of SaskPower, informed the Mercury last week that the official launching of the BD3 project originally slated for early April will be set back. “It’s just a matter of getting the pipes put in place that will carry the steam between the power plant and the carbon dioxide capture island,” Watson said. “The delay shouldn’t be extensive, and there are no engineering or logistical
issues here. It’s just the need to take a bit more time to do the pipe work, and they want to be cautious. Since part of it involved the rebuild, it makes sense. This is not something we could hurry up by adding more labour to the project,” Watson said. The people already on-site are capable of doing the work and want to do it carefully, he explained. Since the province still does not require the additional megawatts of power from No. 3 unit at Boundary, the decision to grant permission to extend the time line came easily. The situation will mean a delay in collecting and providing CO2 for Cenovus Energy Inc. for enhanced oil
recovery in nearby oilfields, but that too, is not seen as being problematic at this point, either. Rhona DelFrari, spokeswoman with Cenovus, told the Daily Oil Bulletin’s Carter Haydu that despite the slight delay in access to the BD CO2, their pipeline built to accept the gas is already completed with an original April 1 start date in mind, but the delay will not impact their oil drilling or production operations. “Really, this is our secondary source of CO2,” she said. Cenovus still has enough CO2 coming from a North Dakota gasification plant as their primary source, → A2 CCS
He’s Back
Jacob Hoggard and his fellow members of Hedley were back in Estevan Sunday night for a performance at Affinity Place. For more photos and a story on the concert see A3.
SaskPower has announced that the launch date of the clean coal project at the Boundary Dam Power Station will be slightly delayed.
Do All debts near $40 million Dayman taking his shot at CPC nomination A number of former employees and local businesses are among those who have been left in the lurch by the closure of Do All Industries. As was reported in the Mercury last week, the local company was placed into receivership Feb. 6 by an Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench judge. The application to appoint a receiver was filed by the National Bank of Canad,a which, according to court documents, is owed just over $30 million by Do All. The court appointed Alvarez and Marsal as receiver and according to a preliminary list of creditors on the company’s website, Do All owes an additional $8.1 million to other creditors. Among those owed money are Do All’s
former employees. Listed on the document as preferred creditors, the roughly 155 people who worked at both the Estevan and Nisku, Alta. operations are owed a combined $288,347. The range of money owed stretches from a high of $14,600 to as low as $222. The information on the website also contains a list of secured and unsecured creditors. Do All owes $30.87 million to its secured creditors, including $30.69 million to the National Bank of Canada. The list of unsecured creditors is an extensive one and reads like an Estevan business directory as dozens of local operations are owed money — $8.19 million in all. Again, the range of → A2 Company
The long wait is over for Windthorst native Lyndon Dayman. The former president of the Souris-Moose Mountain Conservative Association and mainstay on the board of directors, has announced plans to seek the party’s nomination for the 2015 federal election. He becomes the fourth candidate to announce his intentions, joining Estevan’s Dr. Robert Kitchen and Phil
Zajac and Torquay Mayor Mike Strachan. In an interview Thursday, Dayman said he has always been interested in politics and has long held a desire to run federally. With current MP Ed Komarnicki not running for re-election in 2015, he decided to jump at the opportunity. “It’s awful hard to beat an incumbent, in fact you are not even going to get a nomination meeting so now
that he is stepping down I figured this is my time to give it a try,” said Dayman who is employed as a safety officer for a construction company in Kipling. Dayman said his ties to the conservative movement stretch back to days of the Reform Party. He became more active in politics when the Alliance Party and Progressive Conservatives joined forces and was a member of the → A2 Windthorst
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