Nexen Long Lake went offline at 18:30 and came back online at 23:27 yesterday; Sundance#1 came back online at 01:18 this morning.
Siemens Canada Milton Avenue facility in Hamilton where Siemens manufactures gas turbines, was to close in April next year but the company has now agreed to extend its life through July. There’s also the promise of two months’ extra employment for a few workers kept on to close the factory down. Siemens announced in August it is looking for a place to open the new factory after winning a massive order from Samsung. The turbine blades are for machines that will generate 600 megawatts of wind energy for the Ontario market and is part of a package in which Samsung has agreed to develop 2,000 megawatts of wind power over the next six years.
Pristine Power Inc, a small Canadian green energy developer, sees its biggest growth opportunity in bioenergy in the timber-rich province of British Columbia. Despite being battered in the past over plans to generate electricity from waste wood, Pristine believes it has learned from its mistakes and now has the knowledge, technology and fuel-supply arrangements it needs to thrive. Pristine, a seven-year-old Calgary, Alberta-based company, already operates a waste heat facility and a natural gas power plant, and is also developing wind energy assets in Ontario. Pristine is one of 14 groups with project applications in British Columbia’s call for power supplied from biomass. BC Hydro, the provincial power utility is expected to name preferred bidders in mid-January 2011. The company won a 65 MW biomass contract in northern British Columbia in 2003, but not long after 12 nearby lumber mills shut down due to a price slump, cutting off Pristine’s fuel supply and halting the project.
