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-- Fulghum Fibres is the leading provider of contract wood chip processing services in the U.S., with approximately $10 million of Operating Income and $20 million of EBITDA expected in 2013. -- Two former wood processing facilities to be acquired and converted to produce wood pellets, projected to have combined stabilized Operating Income of $3 million and EBITDA of $15 million. -- Contracts in...
PITTSBURGH, July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it would prepare for Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) detailed construction plans, schedules and cost estimates for two potential AP1000 nuclear reactors at OPG's Darlington site. The plans and estimates would provide significant input in helping the Province of Ontario determine the baseload generation option that is best for Ontario's ratepayers. "Westinghouse is pleased to...
OTTAWA, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - The Joint Review Panel for the Deep Geologic Repository Project for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (DGR) today announced the start of the maximum six-month public comment period on the adequacy of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and documents in support of the application for a Licence to Prepare Site and Construct, submitted by Ontario Power Generation. The Panel also announced that it has scheduled an initial Panel...
Olympia Steel Buildings Canada recently delivered a 7,298 sq. ft. Olympia Steel Buildings pre-engineered steel building to Ontario Power Generation’s $1 billion dollar project for STRABAG AG in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. This was the third Olympia steel building ordered by STRABAG AG from Olympia Steel Canada. The project is projected to be completed in 2012 or 2013. Unionville, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) August 27, 2011 Olympia Steel Buildings Canada recently delivered a 7,298...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Ontario Power Generation are the three finalists to win the grand prize of the Association for Financial Professionals' 2011 Pinnacle Award, which recognizes excellence in treasury and finance. The AFP Pinnacle Award is sponsored by Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC). The three finalists were selected because their dynamic solutions made treasury and finance operations run more efficiently and effectively at their...
TORONTO, May 9 /PRNewswire/ - The Niagara Tunnel Project will hit an important milestone May 13, 2011 when Big Becky, the world's largest hard rock tunnel boring machine "breaks through" to daylight after a 10.2 Km journey beneath Niagara Falls, Ontario. When completed in 2013 the Niagara Tunnel will increase the output at Ontario Power Generation's Sir Adam Beck Generating Station and provide clean, renewable energy for an additional 160,000 Ontario homes. The tunnel mining...
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Virginia Power is volunteering to close a West Virginia coal-fired power station as part of its plan to build a natural-gas fired power station in northwestern Virginia. The net result would be more electricity to serve Virginia's growing needs and cleaner air in the region that includes the Shenandoah National Park. In an accord reached with the National Park Service and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Dominion has...
OTTAWA, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MDS Nordion, a leading provider of products and services to the global health science market, today announced it has extended its existing agreement with Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG), the Canadian-based electricity generation company, until 2020 for the secure supply of cobalt-60 used in gamma sterilization technologies around the world. Under the terms of the agreement, OPG will continue to supply raw materials to MDS Nordion for use in their...
MONTREAL, July 8 /PRNewswire/ - Alstom, a world leader in the supply of hydropower equipment and services, has signed a contract with Kiewit Alarie Partnership (KAP) to supply three turbine generator sets to Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) Lower Mattagami Project in Northern Ontario. KAP is a partnership between two of the largest construction firms operating in Canada - Peter Kiewit & Sons Co. (Kiewit) and Leo Alarie and Sons Construction Ltd. of Timmins, a subsidiary of the Aecon...
RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The N.C. Utilities Commission (NCUC) has approved Progress Energy Carolinas' plan to build new natural gas-fueled power generation in Wayne County, to replace a coal-fired plant that the utility will retire in 2013. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020923/CHM008LOGO-c) The commission today approved a certificate of public convenience and necessity for Progress Energy Carolinas' proposed 950-megawatt (MW) combined-cycle power plant...
