Financially struggling city-run golf courses will be getting some help from taxpayers next year.
Council voted Wednesday to scrap the mandate for civic golf courses to turn a profit while politicians also agreed to help them with expenditures to the tune of about $200,000 in 2013, and $400,000 in 2014.
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A proposed pipeline that would carry carbon dioxide from east of Edmonton to Central Alberta should be operating by the middle of 2015, says the CEO of the company behind the project.
“We should start seeing some construction occurring in 2013, but the pipeline itself . . . would probably be in 2014,” said Susan Cole of Enhance Energy Inc.
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Twice before, Mayor Naheed Nenshi had chaired budget debates with a keenness to trim but opposed by a council majority often fond of the city hall programs on a would-be chopping block.
But having judged that enough trimming had been done in his first two years, the mayor joined his colleagues in this week’s 2013 budget debates to increase a little, preserve the rest and bring in a 5.5-per-cent property tax hike.
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EDMONTON – Despite concerns about pipeline constraints and the risk of falling oil prices, Alberta’s energy sector is still a great place for investment, the Sequeira Energy Services Symposium was told Wednesday.
And foreign firms are buying, looking for both local oilfield technology and innovation tools that they can take to world markets, as well as companies that are undervalued when compared to larger firms with international operations.
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EDMONTON – Edmonton is going to breathe new life into the seven city-owned cemeteries.
The scheme approved Wednesday involves spending $6.2 million over three years improving amenities and landscaping at South Haven, as well as making improvements at other facilities to ensure they continue to attract business.
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EDMONTON – Edmonton will spend $100,000 assessing the Hawrelak Park lake as it considers taking a run at hosting the 2014 World Triathlon Series Grand Final.
The money approved by city council Wednesday will pay for preliminary studies of what upgrades are needed in the lake, which is considered shallow, murky and too small for an ideal triathlon swim course.
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EDMONTON – Fashion retailer Calvin Klein is opening today, Nov. 29, 2012, at South Edmonton Common, its first store in Edmonton.
The 8,000-square-foot store will be the sixth Calvin Klein lifestyle location to open in Canada and the second in Alberta. A store opened at Cross Iron Mills north of Calgary in August.
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I’m off for a week on vacation, but I couldn’t resist coming back to post this submission for possible new civic office tower downtown. It’s a flat-iron shape with a series of gardens bringing public space and great airflow into the office tower.
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Global demand for crude is growing so strongly that the world needs “every single drop of Canadian oil,” the International Energy Agency’s chief economist said on Monday, playing down fears that growing U.S. production could hit Canadian exports.
Fatih Birol said that even if U.S. output rises as much as the agency expects, the country would still need to import four million barrels a day and that Canada is an obvious supplier.
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CALGARY — Target Canada will open its massive 1.3 million-square-foot distribution centre in Rocky View County, in the Balzac area, in January and will employ hundreds of workers as the facility will service the company’s stores in Western Canada, the Herald has learned.
Colin Yankee, senior director for supply chain logistics for Target Canada, said the facility is located between Stoney Trail on the south and Highway 566 on the north on High Plains Boulevard, just east of the CrossIron Mills shopping centre.
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