Police believe that the fire that destroyed the former seed cleaning plant in Beaverlodge early Friday morning is suspicious and might have been started deliberately.
The old Foster’s Seed and Feed seed-cleaning plant, which has been somewhat of a landmark in Beaverlodge for the past 64 years, burnt to the ground Friday morning.
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Ferus LNG Inc. and Encana Natural Gas Inc. have approval from the County of Grande Prairie to build a 190,000 litre per day liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility.
Construction is expected to begin in June and to be completed by the end of the year. The plan is to have it up and running in the first quarter of 2014. The facility will be located in Elmworth, 70 kilometres southwest of Grande Prairie, an area with high levels of energy industry activity.
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The Peace River Curling Club is one step closer to getting a new ice plant for its facility.
After two years of fundraising, the club recently put a down-payment on a new $250,000 ice plant, which would replace the existing aging ice plant.
“The ice plant we have is over 40 years-old and we have had some issues with it,” said Sally Wolfe, the club’s president.
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A second sugar-beet processing plant is on the drawing board for southern Alberta.
At the annual general meeting of the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers Wednesday morning, Medicine Hat MP LaVar Payne announced an investment to help demonstrate the viability of using beets in the production of sustainable alternatives to petrochemicals.
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More than 400 acres of Red Deer County land near Innisfail earmarked for a stalled ethanol and biodiesel complex has been rezoned.
The move suggests there is little expectation in the county that the project will go ahead soon.
“It’s certainly beyond all of its permitting deadlines,” said Coun. Dave Hoar, whose division the project fell in.
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The sale of a Lethbridge processing plant could spell good news for southern Alberta’s potato growers.
Cavendish Farms, a branch of the powerful J.D. Irving group in Atlantic Canada, has announced plans to take over the Maple Leaf Potato plant at year’s end. The sale, expected to close by the end of the month, will net about $60 million for the Toronto-based company which also operates a pork plant in Lethbridge.
The 142,000-square-foot potato plant – smallest of three french-fry operations in southern Alberta – has generated annual sales of about $75 million, Maple Leaf says. That may soon be expanded, local growers predict.
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CALGARY — An $8-billion natural-gas-to-liquids fuel plant to be built in Alberta will be delayed for at least a year, South African energy company Sasol Ltd. signalled Monday.
The company had been expected to make a decision by the end of December on whether to proceed with a $200-million front-end engineering and design (FEED) study of the proposed project — if successful, construction could have started as early as 2015 and would be concluded in about four years.
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A building permit to expand Red Deer’s wastewater treatment plant accounted for nearly 85 per cent of the value of the construction work approved by the city last month.
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Calgary-based TransAlta Corp. today announced a new strategic partnership with American billionaire Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., where the U.S, firm will fund half the cost of natural gas-fueled power plants built or bought by TransAlta.
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