Profits were higher for Methanex to start 2025, as higher prices for methanol were recorded and the Canadian company reported separately it has restarted its new production plant at Geismar, La.
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Category Archives: Medicine Hat (Alberta)
Gas rates to fall some while power remains at floor price
The price of natural gas to city customers will fall slightly in May, according to the new rates posted Thursday, though power prices stand pat at a floor price established 18 months ago.
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Minority in Ottawa offers few energy answers to Medicine Hat officials
A minority government in Ottawa gives the City of Medicine Hat energy officials only a short-range view of what they say are complex long-range challenges for the municipal power business.
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Four major city routes scheduled for repaving this summer
Portions of four major routes across the city will see repaving this spring and summer, according to the municipal works department.
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Province invests $1M into fire services training, Cypress County to get $30K
As part of a broader funding initiative from Alberta’s United Conservative government, Cypress County is set to receive $29,749 to help keep residents safer.
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Concern over ‘narrowing’ roads overblown: officials
As the city prepares to adopt a new Transportation Master Plan, councillors say they’re hearing concern that a remake which narrowed Division Avenue will be replicated on two other main routes in central Medicine Hat.
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Longstanding wind farm approved to move two towers now considered in violation of ‘view scape’
Two towers that were nixed in a wind farm approval south of Medicine Hat last summer can be built slightly north, out of the direct front-door view of a country church.
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Promising future touted at economic forum
Eastern Alberta is poised to take advantage of geopolitical trends – a new drive for food security and defence spending, as well as changing trade and logistics networks – if it acts together, delegates to a Local to Global trade forum in Medicine Hat were told Thursday.
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Local hardware stores to merge under one roof
Ace Hardware along Maple Avenue will now be operating under the well-known Home Hardware banner according to owners Myrna Stark and Colin Hyland.
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Cypress County seeks business leaders to help with economic future
Cypress County Economic Development is looking for local business leaders to help shape the region’s economic future.
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