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622650_CKR.indd 1 04/04/13 3:18 PM Vol. 26 No. #1 ALBERTA CHAMBER ALBERTA CHAMBER OF OF RESOURCES RESOURCES RESOURCES GUIDE AND DIRECTORY 2013 Brad Anderson Executive Director 1940, 10180 - 101 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3S4 CONTENTS Phone: 780-420-1030 Fax: 780-425-4623 7 Message from the President E-mail: [email protected] 8 ACR Board of Directors After September 1, 2013: 800, 10123 - 99 Street 10 ACR Review and Outlook Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3H1 Publisher 18 ACR’s 77th Annual General Meeting Bob Phillips Editor 28 2013 ACR Annual Awards Banquet Heather Williams Contributing Editor 36 Leadership: The Next Generation Thea Hawryluk Contributing Writer Jorry Johnston FEATURES Photographer 38 Resources in the Classroom Darren Jacknisky, Bluefish Studios Linking curiosity with knowledge and expertise in faraway places Project Manager Kim Davies 41 Foundations for Shared Prosperity Publication Director Developing new ways or building on old ones, neither aboriginal Wayne Jury communities nor industry are starting from square one Sales Representatives Maria Antonation 46 The Social Utility of Resource Development Bill Biber From shareholders to stakeholders, from corporate social responsibility David S Evans to sustainability, from royalties to community investment, Brenda Ezinicki the resource industry is a key part of Alberta’s social fabric Ralph Herzberg Brian Hoover 53 Environmental Innovation and Research in the Resource Industry Robyn Mourant A lot of resource industry innovation doesn’t make for glitzy or dramatic Trevor Perrault storytelling, but it’s what puts the “orderly” and the “responsible” into the Norma Walchuk development and makes an even better future possible Layout & Design Surendra Gupta Marketing PROFILES Kaydee Currie 59 Aecon Group Inc. Published by 63 The Biorefining Conversions Network Naylor (Canada), Inc. 1630 Ness Avenue, Suite 300 Winnipeg, MB R3J 3X1 67 Keyano College Phone 800-665-2456 Fax 800-709-5551 www.naylor.com ACR Membership ©2013 Naylor (Canada), Inc. All rights 71 ACR Membership Application reserved. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced by any means, in 73 ACR Member Listings whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the publisher. 89 Index of Advertisers

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carried out over the year. We also cel- Leadership in the development ebrate some key exemplars of leader- of innovative processes, practices, ship: the recipients of the scholarships, and partnerships also features promi- plaques, and accolades handed out nently. Individually, our members have at the annual ACR Awards Banquet. A put into play some of the world’s best particularly compelling perspective on technologies in support of the orderly leadership emerged in the remarks of and responsible development of the University of Alberta student Nisha Patel, resource. For example, Lehigh Hanson’s who I think potentially closed a gen- invention of lower environmental eration gap by suggesting that leader- impact products like InterCem® cement, ship decisions could be gauged by their or TransAlta/Capital Power’s Genessee effects on the future, not the age of the 3 power generation which is the first person making them. And, if that is the facility in Canada to use supercritical test, then the actions taken by our new- boiler technology, are all making a real David Middleton est Resource Person of the Year, David difference. Resource development enter- President 2012-2014 Tuccaro, over twenty years ago, have cer- prises also added to the overall finan- tainly returned positive and enduring cial viability of government by adding societal, economic, and personal effects. more than $7 billion to Alberta’s general We mark the importance of leader- revenue fund this fiscal year through ship in this issue in several other ways as resource royalties, fees and, other As the cover would suggest, this issue well. The launch of the ACR Aboriginal charges. In addition, our members have of the Resources Guide and Directory Workforce Development Pilot Project, for shown voluntary leadership in their is designed in both its style and con- example, sparked the article on aborigi- efforts to improve social circumstances tent to elaborate upon the messages of nal participation in Alberta’s resource through a wide variety of community the report of the ACR’s Task Force on industry. The ACR has quite a long his- investment and engagement activities. AResource Development + The Economy, tory of participation with aboriginal peo- Husky, for example, contributed half a and to provide an idea of the progress ple—from providing a mining industry million dollars this year to the Calgary we have made over the last year working employment matching service in our ear- Police Foundation to help kids in need, towards our objectives. In particular, it liest days, to sharing best practices for and the Suncor Energy Foundation has focuses on one of the key recommen- engaging aboriginal communities with contributed more than $84 million to dations in that report: “that Members the Learning from Experience project Canadian charities since it was formed become more visible leaders in sustain- in 2006, through to this latest initiative in 1998. able performance.” As you will read, our that, which in a way, returns to our roots The ACR formally celebrates leader- membership has taken the recommenda- and builds on our success. ship just one day a year—at the Awards tion to heart. We also take a look at the progress Banquet in February—leaving 364 other It is an incredibly important theme that has been made by our members to days for our members to practice their that drove almost everything we did help supplement the school curriculum own brand of it. As I mentioned last year, in 2012 and was, perhaps, most visibly related to the resource industry with we can’t be complacent about our role and explicitly promoted as the common teaching materials and knowledge. This to be visible leaders in societal, envi- thread to the 77th annual general meet- was achieved mainly through the Alberta ronmental, and economic performance. ing of the ACR in February 2013. Distance Learning Centre’s introduc- As evidenced by the relative ease with The highlights of that event—doc- tion of the Excite Learning Environment which such leadership examples could umenting, for example, the revolution which gives kids access to “profession- be found in the compilation of this issue in North American oil and gas supplies als in faraway places,” and also gives of the Resources Guide and Directory, and the cross-cutting policies of leader- members an easy and effective route to our membership has taken to the call to ship within the Alberta Government— get more directly involved generating lead the orderly and responsible develop- are covered in the following pages. So, interest in resource industry issues and ment of the resource to the benefit of all too, are some of the chief ACR activities future careers. Albertans.

Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 7 Alberta Chamber of Resources Board of Directors ACR 2013 Executive Officers President David Middleton Penn West Exploration Executive Vice President, Operations Engineering and Peace River Oil Partnership Past President Gord Ball Vice-President David Corriveau Shell Canada Energy Manager - Tailings and Water Focused Delivery, Upstream Americas, Heavy Oil Treasurer Randy Geislinger CIBC Executive Director, Energy, Corporate Credit Products Director Rep. Ronald M. Kruhlak McLennan Ross LLP Partner Director Rep. Herb Wiebe Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd. President Director Rep. VACANT Executive Director Brad Anderson Alberta Chamber of Resources Executive Director ACR 2013 Directors Al Brown Sherritt Coal Senior General Manager, Engineering and Technical Services Gauthier Demeulenaere TOTAL E&P Canada Limited Vice President, Technology and Development Division Tom Grabowski The Silvacom Group President and CEO Cynthia Hansen Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Vice President, System Performance & Solutions Jon Mitchell Cenovus Energy Inc. Director, Environmental Policy & Strategy Richard Neufeld Dentons Canada LLP Partner David Primrose Finning (Canada) Executive Vice President Mining, Construction & Forestry Ray Reipas Teck Resources Limited Senior Vice President, Energy Stephen Stanley EPCOR Utilities Inc. Senior Vice President, Water Services Herb Wiebe Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd. President ACR 2013-2014 Directors Al Brown Sherritt Coal Senior General Manager, Engineering & Technical Services Craig Clifton Clifton Associates Ltd. Vice President, Alberta Fred Dzida Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. Director, Canadian Timberlands Darren Hardy Canadian Oil Sands Limited Senior Vice President, Operations Eddy Isaacs Alberta Innovates-Energy and Environment Solutions Chief Executive Officer Ian Johnston PCL Constructors Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer, Heavy Industrial Ronald M. Kruhlak McLennan Ross LLP Partner Rick J. Gallant Imperial Oil Resources Vice President, Oil Sands Development & Research Donald J. Oborowsky Waiward Steel Fabricators Ltd. President and Chief Executive Officer Hugo Shaw TransAlta Corporation Executive Vice President, Operations Kris Smith Suncor Energy Inc. Senior Vice President, Supply, Trading and Corporate Development ACR 2013/2014/2015 Directors James Cairns CN Vice President, Petroleum and Chemicals Steve Cameron Norwest Corporation President Pending Ainsworth Engineered Canada LP Pending Dean Cowling TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. Vice President, Project Development and Alberta Oil Bryan DeNeve Capital Power Corporation Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Commercial Services Brian Humphreys Nexen Inc. Vice President, Government Relations Larry Kaumeyer Aecon Group Inc. Vice President, Business Development John LeGrow ConocoPhillips Canada Vice President, Strategy, Planning and Integration, Oil Sands Peter Read Syncrude Canada Ltd. Vice President, Strategic Planning Barrie Robb Fort McKay Group of Companies CEO, Business Development ACR Guest Director Paul Verhesen Clark Builders President and CEO

8 • Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 U of A Engineers homas Thundat, Brian Fleck, Tayfun Babadagli, Faye Hicks, Biao Huang, Qi Liu, Josef Szymanski, David hu, Evan Davies, Carlo Montemagno, Ying Tsui, Hongbo Zeng, Leonidas Perez-Estrada, Michael Hendry Maggie Liu, Yuntong She, Steven Kuznicki, Zaher Hashisho, Mohamed Gamal El-Din, Thian Gan, Sushanta Mitra, Tong Yu, Qingxia Liu, Yaman Boluk, Ward Wilson, Ania Ulrich, Sean Sanders, Subir Bhattacharjee irish Shah, Zhenghe Xu, Tony Yeung, Murray Gray, Amit Kumar, Thomas Thundat, Brian Fleck, Tayfun abadagli, Faye Hicks, Biao Huang,A Qi L iu,deep Josef Szymanski, pool David Zhu, Evan Davies, Carlo Montemagno ing Tsui, Hongbo Zeng, Leonidas Perez-Estrada, Michael Hendry, Maggie Liu, Yuntong She, Steven Kuznicki aher Hashisho, Mohamed Gamal El-Din, Thian Gan, Sushanta Mitra, Tong Yu, Qingxia Liu, Yaman Boluk Ward Wilson, Ania Ulrich, Sean Sandersof, S ubtalentir Bhattacharjee, S irishin Shah, Zhenghe Xu, Tony Yeung, Murray ray, Amit Kumar, Thomas Thundat, Brian Fleck, Tayfun Babadagli, Faye Hicks, Biao Huang, Qi Liu, Jose zymanski, David Zhu, Evan Davies,water Carlo Montemagno, research Ying Tsui, Hongbo Zeng, Leonidas Perez-Estrada Michael Hendry, Maggie Liu, Yuntong She, Steven Kuznicki, Zaher Hashisho, Mohamed Gamal El-Din

Water is a precious resource that plays a key role in every aspect of our lives. At the University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering, more than 30 professors and 300 researchers are conducting research related to water, helping to ensure Alberta continues to enjoy safe, plentiful supplies to sustain communities, industry, agriculture and the environment.

Working with local, national and international partners, our engineering professors are making important scientiﬁc contributions toward responsible development of natural resources. These researchers are investigating water across a broad spectrum, including reduction of water use, future supply in a changing climate, protection of infrastructure and public safety, municipal and industrial wastewater, bioremediation, oil sands process water treatment, contamination monitoring and water systems modeling.

Dr. Tony Yeung Dr. Faye Hicks Dr. Mohamed Dr. Ania Ulrich Dr. Subir Dr. Thomas Dr. Amit Kumar Tony Yeung is seeking a Alberta’s harsh weather Gamal El-Din Some micro-organisms Bhattacharjee Thundat How much water does it revolutionary change in can trigger catastrophic Internationally renowned actually thrive on As the NSERC Industrial A Canada Excellence take to produce a kilowatt oil sands processing: the events that affect public water researcher Mohamed compounds that are Research Chair in Water Research Chair in Oil Sands hour of electricity or a waterless extraction of health, the environment Gamal El-Din has hazardous to the Quality Management for Molecular Engineering, barrel of oil? Amit Kumar bitumen. As the NSERC/ and our economy. Faye contributed to advances environment. Ania Ulrich Oil Sands Extraction, Subir Thomas Thundat’s research is investigating water uses Imperial Oil/Alberta Hicks is renowned for her in physical and chemical and her research team Bhattacharjee is developing is focused on detecting in industrial processes Ingenuity/AIEES Industrial work in understanding the methods to treat water are investigating the new technologies and contamination, using micro- at a systems level and Research Chair in Non- impact of river ice on water and wastewater, including possibility of recruiting operational innovations for and nano-mechanical forecasting future water Aqueous Bitumen Extraction, supply, and forecasting development of new naturally occurring micro- sustainable water use in the sensors to monitor physical, demand, with the goal he leads a Centre for Oil the formation of ice materials and treatment organisms to help clean up oil sands industry. chemical and biological of optimizing water use Sands Innovation team jams on rivers to protect processes/technologies, and contaminated water. agents in water and the strategies. working on an innovative infrastructure and ensure treatment and management environment. approach to reducing public safety. of oil sands tailings water. environmental impact.

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620834_University.indd 1 29/01/13 8:52 AM Reviewand Outlook Advancing aboriginal development prospects and bolstering resource knowledge in the classroom cap another busy year

Perhaps bucking the popular perception of all-for-one, one- for-all boom or bust cycles, it is actually next to impossible to encapsulate annual resource industry performance and prospects in a word, a sentence, or even a paragraph or two. There is, simply, too much diversity within both the provincial resource base itself and the global drivers and markets for its it is up to us… Pproducts. So, a good year for coal may or may not be matched The Task Force report affirms the crucial The work of the importance of Alberta’s resource industry to the ACR Task Force by robust performance in other areas of mining. economic and social well-being of all Canadians, and lays the groundwork for the continued orderly on Resource and responsible development of those resources But, broadly speaking, asynchronous ups and downs aren’t over the next decade and beyond. Development + The Economy A tradition of meeting the physical and technical necessarily a bad thing. As the ACR Task Force on Resource challenges of resource development has shaped was visually the economy and the people of Alberta. Our Development + The Economy report noted: “stability can often workforce is hard-working and resourceful, well- sustained in both educated and entrepreneurial, people who form the covers of a the backbone of Alberta’s resource-grounded be better achieved through adding diversity to markets for knowledge economy. widely distributed

Some factors, such as commodity prices or leaflet (l), which existing industries, adding diversity in the range of commodi- currency fluctuations, are beyond our control. provided an “at But many others are within our grasp. With significant potential to reduce environmental a glance” review ties produced by these industries, and/or increasing the degree impact and increase economic productivity of some of its key through innovation, Alberta is uniquely of raw-materials processing in the region.” positioned to excel. messages and There are many things that we – as resource recommendations, The Alberta Government’s Coal and Mineral Development industry workers, as government regulators and policy makers, or as informed citizens – can do to and the previous attain the full potential of orderly and responsible issue of the annual reviews, for example, often document levels of activity development. The ACR Task Force report is a solid starting point and a strategic roadmap for Resources Guide ranging from torpid to turbulent. In 2012, no major exploration industry and government to work together. and Directory. It is up to us. work was reported for base metals, but Ironstone Resources has drilled more than 200 holes on its Clear Hills property, the total number of active metallic and industrial mineral licenses issued for recreational placer mining nearly doubled in 2012 over 2011, and coal lease applications rose 67 percent over the same period—Coalspur Mines Limited, for one, is not only developing its Vista project, “positioned to potentially be the largest

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10 • Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 Persistent cost pressures and labour shortages in some areas will also serve to dampen optimal prospects. But, generally and certainly within Canada, the outlook for Alberta, and for the resource sector, remains positive.

Many of the indicators affecting forest-related industries resources. A variety of activities were pursued and initiatives seemed mostly positive last year. Alberta housing starts were established in support of that mandate and vision in 2012. up almost 30 percent in 2012 over 2011, for example, with The vision, of course, cannot be achieved by one person, one building permits also up in all categories but industrial. company, and not even by one sector of society. The recommen- Shipments of manufactured wood products grew by 24.2 per- dations of the ACR Task Force report, in fact, “invite industry cent, furniture and fixtures shipments by a more moderate 5.1 and government to work together to reach the full potential of percent, and international exports of paper and wood products orderly and responsible resource development in Alberta.” by 5.5 percent. The Alberta Forest Products Association reports It takes cross-sector communication, consultation, infor- that values of lumber, pulp and paper, and panelboard manu- mation-sharing, and relationship building. And that, in turn, factured by its members totaled approximately $2.3 billion for takes a lot of phone calls, meetings, emails, report and letter 2012, with the value of production up $184 million or nine writing, and a lot of thought and time, overall. Thus, one of the percent from 2011. As according to the Alberta Forest Products key and ongoing, if not always distinctly measurable, activi- Roadmap, the forest industry is on the road to growth which ties of the ACR staff is communicating—both in the listening “will be based on access to existing and emerging markets for and in the expression of a point of view. That process occurred forest products, ‘green’ attributes, and technological advance- frequently in 2012—with government representatives, industry ments that offer new and innovative value added products and other associations, peers and experts from a wide variety of and services.” disciplines. Examples include the Energy and Mines Ministers As for energy, shipments of manufactured petroleum and Conference in Prince Edward Island in September and the coal products, rising 3.5 percent in value over the previous year, Mining Association of Canada’s Day on the Hill in December. almost hit the $20 billion mark in 2012. By volume, natural gas production was off while crude oil and equivalents produc- Member-led Committee Work tion rose by about ten percent. International exports of min- Member engagement drives ACR’s work and success and ing and energy products rose 1.4 percent to $66.8 billion, all is most visibly manifested in the formation and operation of a on the strength of stronger crude oil exports. And more than variety of committees. The Mining Industry Advisory Committee 20,000 new workers joined the ranks as mining and oil and gas under Jim Carter, for example, works to develop the University extraction employment rose to 173,500 people in 2012. Looking of Alberta’s School of Mining into the best mining school in the ahead, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers fore- world, and the Aboriginal Relations Committee under the chair- casts 6.2 million barrels of Canadian crude oil production per manship of Barrie Robb works to build and maintain inclusive day by 2030, up from about 3.0 million barrels, today. And and respectful relationships and to stay up to date on issues of rel- the International Energy Agency forecasts growth by about a evance to aboriginal communities and resource developers. Other third in global energy demand through 2035, with fossil fuels committees that have been particularly active of late include: remaining dominant in the mix. • The Workforce Working Group under Neil Tidsbury and Andy With this exciting and dynamic environment as background, Neigel which identifies and summarizes workforce supply and the executive, staff, volunteers, and committees of ACR put in demand issues another busy year of work. • The Water Committee under Herb Wiebe which includes representation (by Chris Fordham) on the Alberta Water Council ACR Leadership for Relationship- and work monitoring provincial wetland policy building is the Vision • Representation by Peter Darbyshire and Dan Thillman on the As according to its Strategic Framework, 2011 – 2013, the Clean Air Strategic Alliance, a multi-stakeholder group that Alberta Chamber of Resources’ overarching vision is “Orderly works to manage air quality in Alberta. and Responsible Development,” which embodies the principles of prosperity and quality of life for present plus future genera- Aboriginal Consultation tions of Albertans and Canadians. In mid-October Alberta Aboriginal Relations began the next ACR and its members envision a future, a few decades phase of engagement on its First Nations consultation policy. hence, in which Albertans enjoy a high quality of life, sustain- Specifically, the department is seeking additional input from a able environment, economic prosperity and pride in a heritage variety of stakeholders—including ACR—on a new Consultation of responsible development of our rich endowment of natural Discussion Paper.

Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 11 Our Commitment to Responsible Development

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627161_TOTAL.indd 1 06/02/13 10:32 PM third-party citations of the report content and direct visual observation that the report continues to carry weight among a variety of interested parties and decision makers.

ACR Aboriginal Workforce Development Initiative The new Aboriginal Workforce Our Commitment to Development Initiative got underway in 2012. It is a $175,000 one-year pilot project that aims to help alleviate work- Responsible Development force shortages by connecting working- age aboriginal people with ACR-member At Total, we work to deliver top environmental, social, and economic performance while helping employment opportunities. The federal and Alberta governments have kicked to develop the communities in which we live and work. in the bulk of the funding, a portion of Ensuring that we meet or exceed world class standards is what we are known for globally, which will be used to hire a coordinator and what we bring to our projects in Canada around the world. who will work with Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy holders around the province to match labour Find out more about Total’s commitment to responsible development: www.total-ep-canada.com/csr/responsibility.asp Current ACR President, David Middleton (l), and his immediate predecessor, Leon Zupan, at the ACR Awards Banquet on the evening of February 8, 2013. demand and supply.

Air Quality creates a single provincial regulator for COAA Synergies Management System upstream energy resource activities ACR’s sister organization, the In mid- and late-September, ACR Air involving oil, gas, oil sands and coal.” Construction Owners Association of Committee representatives attended pre- ACR has established a Single Regulator Alberta, is engaged in several initiatives sentations by the Alberta government on Working Group which will review the to address the chronic shortage of skilled next steps respecting the implementa- legislation and the detailed regulations trades. For example, Federal Deputy tion of a national air quality manage- to provide feedback based on collective Minister Neil Yeates of Citizenship and ment system. Of note, Alberta, a leader in experience. Immigration Canada provided a brief- the development of the system, expects ing that significant changes are com- to begin implementation in 2013 with Other Land-use Issues ing which will transform immigration an intent to manage point and non- A Land-use Planning Working to need-driven, rather than application- point air quality within and across air Committee has also been struck that, driven. ACR supports these efforts, and zones. After that, the aim is to provide based on experience with the Lower is re-establishing our Workforce Working the first national reporting of air qual- Athabasca Regional Plan, will tackle Committee to more systematically pro- ity in air zones by 2014. The province any issues pertaining to the new North vide the ACR perspective. will continue to be the primary regula- Saskatchewan Regional Plan and the tor, but the federal government retains Peace River Regional Plan. Office Move and the right to prosecute the most serious Facility Availability cases of non-compliance. Although not Task Force on ACR will be moving to new offices yet fully defined, there will likely be six Resource Development + in Suite 800 of the Sun Life Building in air zones in Alberta (part of six regional The Economy downtown Edmonton in late summer air sheds across Canada), five of which Work continued apace on promoting or early fall, 2013. Except for the street will correspond directly to the Land-use and implementing Task Force recom- address, all of the contact information Framework Regions. mendations. The ACR published an “at- (email addresses and phone numbers) a-glance” leaflet version of the report will remain the same (the street address OUR VISION Long-term. Regulatory in April, and included it with the 2012 will change to 800, 10123 - 99 Street). OUR FOCUS Competitive innovation. Enhancement Project Resources Guide and Directory which, The move not only makes financial The Alberta government introduced itself, included articles on seizing the sense by keeping costs down. It carries OUR COMMITMENT Total. legislation in September establish- $700-billion prize, getting resources to on a long ACR tradition of offering cen- ing a new energy regulator: “Bill 2, the market, and building the resource indus- trally-located prime office space and ser- Responsible Energy Development Act, try workforce. It is evident both through vices to our valued members. The office, www.total-ep-canada.com Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 13

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623108_Alberta.indd 1 15/01/13 7:31 AM being remodeled at the time of writing, but was soon forced to resign when pro- Advice and Insights features a large boardroom, a private fessional obligations and opportuni- As an organization drawing on the col- workstation area and extra office space, ties in Texas drew him away. The ACR lective power of our membership, ACR the latest in communications capabili- leadership has since been in the incred- seeks out and attracts a variety of top- ties, and friendly ACR staff to help make ibly capable hands of David Middleton, name experts and speakers to share their you feel at home. Call ahead, drop in, Executive Vice President and Managing insight and wisdom. Among them in 2012: Alberta Innovates... you’ll always be welcome. Director Peace River Oil Partnership of • University of Alberta Chancellor Linda Penn West Exploration. David Corriveau, Hughes spoke to the merits and the Resources in Tailings Business Manager for Shell imperative of investing in talent and it’s what we do. the Classroom Canada Energy stepped in as ACR to ACR member connections with Among other initiatives to help Vice President. the University. improve the profile of resources in the classroom, ACR has been working with the Alberta Distance Learning Centre to encourage connections and partnerships between our members and schools to enhance the resources-related content of the curriculum and to increase the profile of the resources industry in schools. Part of the effort, for example, would introduce students—through online video and other interactions with practis- Critical technology gaps to address? ing professionals—to resources industry Problems applied research and development could solve? career opportunities they might not otherwise have known about. Brad Anderson New products and services to take to market? has been named to the Board of Directors of the Alberta Distance Learning Centre. Business development and commercialization Too, our relationship with post-sec- challenges to resolve? ondary educational institutions remains strong and we are particularly proud of our ongoing involvement through the In forestry, energy, environment, Mining Industry Advisory Committee and its work in support of career develop- and emerging technologies we have the people, ment for students and economic develop- the experience and the programs to help. ment for our industry. The ACR Design Studio & Lecture Series, officially opened at the University of Alberta’s School of Mining Engineering in May 2012, is another initiative that helps achieve Put Alberta Innovates and Alberta’s research these objectives. and innovation system to work for you. Contact us. Cross-sector Networking ACR Executive Director Brad Anderson accepted an invitation to sit on and chair the strategic advisory board of the Biorefining Conversions Network. It is a research organization based at the 780.427.1956 403.297.7089 780.450.5111 University of Alberta supporting research [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and development related to biorefining and biomass conversion technologies.

ACR Leadership Enbridge’s Leon Zupan assumed the mantle of ACR President early in 2012,

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632311_Brandt.indd 1 26/03/13 8:21 AM ACR’s th Annual 77General Meeting A program focused on key and pressing issues draws a large crowd

Not to say that any less planning or social utility of resource development— • The Hon. Diana McQueen, Minister, and effort went into the organization of Wikipedia notes of the economic impact her Deputy Minister, Dana Woodworth, this year’s ACR annual general meet- of the pipeline that “Prior to 1976, Alberta Environment and Sustainable ing than normal, but there is, typically, Alaska’s personal income tax rate was Resource Development not quite so much celebratory appeal in 14.5 percent—the highest in the United a between-milestones “77” as there is, States....Thirty years after the pipeline ACR Bylaw Amendment— Nsay, in a big-party-inspiring “75.” No tidy began operating…. Alaska moved from Special Resolution three-quarter century mark. No special the most heavily taxed state to the most Brad Anderson, ACR Executive birthday cake. No river-valley backdrop tax-free state.” Director, explained the proposed amend- fireworks. It’s just one of those alliterative It happens, too, that the ACR, in its ment and acted as scrutineer. Members but middle-of-the-road anniversaries that modern incarnation, was actually born in might confound the calculator-numbed 1977 (for seven years before that, it had mind to mentally work back, if one were been the Alberta—Northwest Chamber to forget, to a start date of 1936. of Mines-Oils-Resources). So, dig a little But 77 means something special to deeper, maybe a bit horizontally, and as ACR AGM keynote speaker Dr. Philip a near 75th-anniversary-rivalling crowd (“Pete”) H. Stark and to former ACR of about 300 visionary ACR members Managing Director Don Currie. Both are and friends actually did at the Shaw personally on track, more or less, with Conference Centre in Edmonton the ACR’s launch date. So are Woody Allen, morning of February 8, 2013, you’ll find Julie Andrews, Jerry Lee Lewis, and all kinds of worthwhile meaning in “77.” Porky Pig. And, Pavarotti, too, who, aus- The event included a vote on an ACR piciously for the current motif, ended up bylaw change, the remarks of Dr. Stark, making his American TV debut in 1977. Senior Research Director and Advisor, Upside-down hockey sticks, that hap- IHS Cambridge Energy Research pens to have been the year of former Associates, and a panel discussion with Flame Jarome Iginla’s birth. Also the the following six Alberta Government year that NASA’s now solar-system push- representatives. ing Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched. • The Hon. Robin Campbell, Minister,

The year, too, that the Trans-Alaska and his Assistant Deputy Minister, Stan ACR President David Middleton served as Pipeline System was completed. And, not Rutwind, Alberta Aboriginal Relations master of ceremonies for the morning’s events. He spoke to the benefits of to stray too far from our key areas of • The Hon Ken Hughes, Minister, membership in the ACR: “It fosters or tempers interest and to foreshadow one of the fea- and his Deputy Minister, Jim Ellis, change, as appropriate, and you can either help push that change or be the beneficiary ture stories in this issue—the one on the Alberta Energy of the process.”

18 • Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 was present and that 75 percent of mem- • A rebalancing of global issues, especially bers in attendance would be required around energy—for example, dramatic to approve the proposed amendment in changes in the patterns of trade and order for it to pass. transportation. This affects jobs, GDP, Members then voted unanimously in tax flows to governments. It also car- favour of the motion that the special res- ries environmental dividends in terms of olution be approved. Mr. Middleton then lower greenhouse gas emissions through declared the Special Resolution to have increasing use of natural gas for power been carried by the required majority of generation. the members present. Dr. Stark reviewed recent historical developments on natural gas, and high- The Incredible Revolution lighted the surge in shale gas produc- in North American Oil and tion after Hurricane Katrina beginning Gas Supplies in about 2007—which has boosted U.S. In providing context for his remarks, gas production by about 15.5 billion Dr. Stark noted a “three-speed economy cubic feet a day and offset the presumed on the mend”—i.e. Europe at slow speed, need to import substantial amounts of North America at a middling pace, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) into North ACR Treasurer Randy Geislinger presented developing countries (e.g. China) grow- America. This has been accompanied by the financial review. He called 2012 another successful year and said that ACR was “well ing the fastest. Energy is a key driver and price drops which have challenged pro- positioned to continue to address the we, in North America, are on the thresh- ducers to drive down their costs through numerous initiatives and challenges that lay ahead for our organization.” old of a major renaissance that can give continuous innovation to mitigate harm us a significant competitive advantage to their bottom line. were reminded that they had earlier worldwide. This is surprising in the sense He highlighted gas production areas been apprised via a special resolution that no one would have predicted it six in North America, including the Montney of the “minor but important” proposed years ago (energy imports into the U.S. and Horn River among a number of changes—a provision to allow the were supposed to have increased substan- “King-Kong” plays and suggested that ACR Board to elect a vice president in tially as domestic production declined). there were other areas that could become the event of unforeseen circumstances, There are a number of implications, viable with changing economics (e.g. in another to permit a teleconferencing including: the Canadian Maritimes). On the demand option for Board meetings, and an allow- • Improved competitiveness via, for one, side, the electric power industry is the ance for Board member appointments of increased investment to take advantage major consumer of gas, but there are more than one term—and of the need to of the new environment for lower cost some signs that the industrial segment vote on them at the annual general meet- energy, especially natural gas and natu- could take a larger share in future. ing. He then confirmed that a quorum ral gas liquids. IHS expects gas prices to rise moderately; still, the decommissioning of older, inefficient coal-fired plants will persist providing additional opportunities to replace base load power with gas fired turbines. Canada’s approach will be more gradual. Ontario’s rapid introduction of renewables offered a “major learning curve” with “several unintended negative consequences.” (IHS CERA has documented Ontario’s experience in the case study Too Much, Too Fast: The Pace of Greening the Ontario Power System, available online.) Dr. Stark asserted that time, money, innovation and patience would be required to bring about a major shift in the energy mix and that hydrocarbons would maintain a significant ACR Executive Director Brad Anderson served as scrutineer on a proposed amendment to the position in the portfolio for decades ACR bylaws that included a provision to allow the ACR Board to elect a vice president in the event of unforeseen circumstances. The resolution for amendment passed unanimously. to come.

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621131_Shell.indd 1 22/03/13 12:33 AM ACR Annual Awards Banquet Celebrating the effects and the promise of leadership

The “enjoyment factor” of any particu- Leon Zupan, immediate ACR past presi- Or maybe it was just the lingering lar evening out is a very personal thing: dent and the huge frame-encased ammo- legacy of this once-a-year-chance to hang what amuses one may bore another. To nite, plaque, and vote of thanks he got out with friends and colleagues for a each her own, after all and as it should from current President David Middleton. convivial, low-stress evening and—sup- be. Then, too, in a numerically off-year— Or maybe—from the near dozen young ported by the huge behind-the-scenes that is a year falling between the zero University of Alberta MIAC scholarship efforts of ACR staff and volunteers—the Tand the five… a middle-of-the-road 77th winners through to Resource Person combination of everything else that drew anniversary, for example—one might of the Year David Tuccaro—it was the the crowd and, once again, produced expect cumulative shrugs plus acco- awards themselves. another ACR Day to remember. lades to balance out. But the last half of “ACR Day” 2013—the Annual Awards Banquet—defied that expectation, with attendance rivaling the recent-era record showing on ACR’s Diamond Jubilee Day two years ago. Maybe it was the long roster of special guests in attendance, including several cabinet ministers, high-ranking government officials, and renowned Canadian writer and ACR-Resource-Person-of- the-Year biographer Peter C. Newman. Maybe it was the encore, evening-long performance of the Dueling Pianists, or the return engagement of master of ceremonies Steve Hogle who, as VP of Communications with the Edmonton

Oilers, doesn’t mind invoking local The inestimable Steve Hogle again ran the hockey club virtues and values in the show as master of ceremonies extraordinaire. After introducing dueling pianists Matt Singer Martin Murphy naturally brought name of poking good Alberta-rivalry fun. Day and Jan Randall, he dispensed safety the crowd to its feet with his rousing instructions, beginning with: “…it is a staple rendition of the national anthem. Mr. Murphy Maybe it was the food—curried cauli- of cartoons and situation comedies that has performed with the likes of Tommy Banks flower soup to start, a choice of lemon predatory piano lids frequently fall onto and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, fragile fingers. Funny stuff. But safety is and has portrayed Luciano Pavarotti in the custard flan or milk ACR-logoed choco- a serious thing in real life, so let’s remind International operatic/comedy sensation, late banana tart to finish, if the waistline ourselves of what we should do in the “The PreTenors,” for nearly two decades. unlikely event of a genuine crisis of some He recently released a solo CD, “The could bear it. Maybe it was the return of kind in our world….” Painter’s Hand.”

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Edmonton Mayor, His Worship Stephen Mandel, brought 1 greetings from the city. He called ACR Resource Person of the Aboriginal Rewarding Partnerships— Year, David Tuccaro, “a model of what we should all try to be,” 881 Business Incubation Centre and commended ACR for making “sure this is a province and country that provides equal opportunity for all of us.” The award was created by the Alberta Chamber of Resources

While reminding himself to “have fun” at the podium, ACR and Alberta Aboriginal Relations to celebrate and recognize 2 President David Middleton acknowledged a score of dignitaries companies and their aboriginal partners who have demon- in the Hall, confessed his earlier-in-the-day “toin coss” verbal gymnastics to a ripple of “I’ve-done-it-too” chuckles, and strated excellence in innovation, best practices in aboriginal recapped some of the highlights from the morning’s annual general meeting: “We reminded ourselves that we had to get programs, sustainability and capacity building. resource development right,” he said. “This means we have an The award was presented by the Hon. Robin Campbell, obligation to demonstrate visible leadership for orderly and responsible development, because getting it right results in Minister of Alberta Aboriginal Affairs, and Barrie Robb, Chair an economy that generates higher standards of living—health of the ACR Aboriginal Relations Committee. Minister Campbell care, education, career opportunities, stable employment, and higher achievements in environmental performance.” alluded to his busy ACR day, pointing out in particular that the

In emcee Steve Hogle’s words, “Zany Brad Anderson,” ACR Aboriginal Workforce Development pilot he had helped launch 3 Executive Director (better known in some circles as Bev’s earlier in the day “reinforces our commitment to provide oppor- husband), “crashed the podium” after President Middleton’s opening remarks to, as Brad put it, “fill an important gap and tunity to aboriginal communities and individuals so they can restore a tradition… and give Dave a proper introduction and welcome.” Mr. Middleton had assumed the presidency without thrive in this great province of ours.” He also said that, as the fanfare in 2012 after his predecessor, Leon Zupan, accepted a ACR was doing with the Rewarding Partnerships award, it was promotion and had to relocate to Houston, Texas. important to mark and celebrate success. ACR immediate past President Leon Zupan (l) and current 4 President David Middleton share the heavy lifting of leadership. Mr. Middleton presented the framed ammonite and plaque in It is important to mark and celebrate success. appreciation of Mr. Zupan’s service, saying, “The first month on the job, Leon gets a promotion, hops on a plane, and heads down to Houston. But he’s not forgotten, far from it. He’s made Barrie Robb moderated the acceptance remarks of the “881” a significant contribution.” Leon quipped in return: “I think this has been one of the best bait and switches for Dave and partners: the ACR,” noting, in seriousness, that the move had not been • The 881 Business Incubation Centre and the Chipewyan Prairie planned. The ACR is “a wonderful organization,” he added. “I’ve been extremely proud to have been a part of it.” Dene First Nation, represented by Evelyn Janvier who expressed

Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 29 628842_CN.indd 1 18/02/13 1:42 PM her wish that the centre, a new project, on Highway 881 between Lac La Biche Restoration has taken a critical and timely would succeed so that businesses and and Fort McMurray. And, as the name of leadership role in engaging the wind entrepreneurs along the 881 corridor the award suggests, the Centre’s ability power industry to proactively develop con- could compete with other regional to cultivate and maintain linkages and struction and reclamation best practices.” businesses. partnerships among a large number of • Statoil, represented by Andrew Loosely organizations in the name of a common The Forum has taken a critical who called the partnership a “made-in- cause and outcome has been particu- Alberta” solution in its connection of larly impressive and holds a great deal of and timely leadership role in ideas, opportunity, and growth. potential and promise for continued suc- • ConocoPhillips, represented by Chris cess in the years ahead. reclamation best practices. Campbell, who agreed that it was important to create capacity and that Environmental Award— The award was accepted by Marilyn “we believe that community members Foothills Restoration Neville and Cheryl Bradley, with Ms. should benefit from our presence.” Forum Neville, a reclamation scientist (which, • The Business Link, represented by Gord The ACR Environmental Award is she said, involves “more art than sci- Sawatsky who credited all of the partners given to an individual or individuals who ence”), noting that any kind of develop- for making the project possible and for have demonstrated sustained and stellar ment has an impact and there need to creating a bridge that matched demand environmental stewardship. Selection be guidelines, including for wind energy with opportunity. for the Environmental Award is made by development. She also invited ACR mem- (Although not present at the award Alberta Environment and Sustainable bers to attend annual Forum range land ceremony, Alberta Human Services is Resource Development in an indepen- workshops in the Porcupine Hills. also one of the “881” partners.) dent process. The Foothills Restoration Forum The 881 Business Incubation Centre’s The award was presented by the was established in 2007 as a multi- work providing business services and Hon. Diana McQueen, Minister, Alberta stakeholder working group dedicated networking, office space and equipment, Environment and Sustainable Resource to promoting research and information administrative support, and training has Development, and David Corriveau, sharing focused on the conservation, had broad impacts fostering, sharing, Vice President, ACR. Minister McQueen stewardship, and restoration of native and sustaining the prospects for busi- remarked that there was a great deal of plant communities of southwestern ness, independent entrepreneurship, leadership within the resource indus- Alberta. There are currently more than employment, and prosperity within its try and the ACR Awards Banquet was 140 members representing numerous geographic sphere of influence. The about celebrating the best of the best. stakeholder groups. In receiving the Centre is strategically located at Km 217 Mr. Corriveau said that the “Foothills ACR Environmental Award, the Foothills Restoration Forum is chiefly recognized for its development of Recommended Principles and Guidelines for Minimizing Disturbance of Native Prairie from Wind Energy Development. With this guidance and other initiatives, the Foothills Restoration Forum has taken a critical and timely leadership role in engaging the wind power industry to proactively develop construction and reclamation best practices.

Major Reclamation Award—Shell Canada Energy The dedication of ACR members to the pursuit of improved reclamation techniques has led to many innovations and has provided increasing confidence The recipients of the ACR Rewarding Partnerships award. Front row, from left, Evelyn Janvier, Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation, Chris J. Campbell, ConocoPhillips Canada, Andrew Loosley, to regulators and the general public Statoil Canada. Back row, from left, presenter Barrie Robb, Chair, ACR Aboriginal Relations about the long-term success of reclama- Committee, Gord Sawatsky, The Business Link, Brent Bushell, The Business Link, presenter Robin Campbell, Minister, Alberta Aboriginal Relations. tion in Alberta. The Major Reclamation

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In presenting the Mining Industry engineering programs in the world… MIAC Scholarships Advisory Committee scholarships at the and we’re already on the path of having Quinton Bunten-Walberg ACR Awards Banquet on February 8, nearly 80 graduates a year.” Manda Champagne 2013, Dr. David Lynch, Dean of the Kyler Guebert University of Alberta’s School of MIAC Scholarships Skyanne Patey Engineering, pointed out that the The ACR Award in Mining Engineering Dhillon Ross Ischool’s mining program had been estab- is a $2,000 scholarship awarded on the Blake Simmons lished almost a hundred years ago and grounds of both academic merit and Shaun Storbakken had gone through peaks and valleys of extracurricular achievements for second- Brandon Urquhart enrollment for decades before hitting year undergraduate students enrolled Brian Yeomans a program-threatening trough in the in the University of Alberta Faculty of early 1990s. With the ACR, the faculty Engineering School of Mining. The A Youthful View formed a save-the-day MIAC committee, scholarships are sponsored by the min- on the Topic of under the chairmanship of Jim Carter, ing companies in the Alberta Chamber Ageless Leadership then a top executive at Syncrude Canada of Resources. Lucky for those who might fear public Ltd. Save the day it did and, today, as The Ian Muirhead Scholarship is speaking more than the toughest ques- Dean Lynch noted, “there are now seven presented to the student who best com- tion on the toughest exam on the worst full-time mining engineering faculty bines the academic and extracurricular day of their lives, MIAC scholarships are members and approximately 40 to 50 achievement attributes. not awarded on the condition that recipi- graduates a year from the bachelors-level ents say something to a big crowd. But BSc in Mining Engineering program, Ian Muirhead Scholarship there are those, like University of Alberta which makes it one of the largest mining Madelynne Hubbers Business Economics and Law Student,

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Dean of the University of Alberta’s School of Engineering, Dr. David Lynch, presented 1 nine Mining Industry Advisory Council (MIAC) scholarships and the Ian Muirhead Memorial Scholarship to a very hard-working and deserving group of students. He reviewed the adventurous and sometimes bumpy history of the Mining Engineering program, and of the various champions along the way who had helped keep it alive so as to, today, become one of the largest and finest such programs in the world. He described the investment of time, effort, and resources made by ACR members in support of the students and the scholarships as “invaluable.” ACR MIAC Committee Chair and former Resource Person of the Year, Jim Carter, who 2 kidded that he normally got to stand on stage at the Awards Banquet “silently and present myself as the primary benefactor to these remarkable and accomplished groups of students without immediate fear of contradiction and without having to say a word to anyone else about it,” helped present the MIAC scholarships and introduced University of Alberta Business Economics and Law Student Nisha Patel. University of Alberta Economics and Law student, Nisha Patel, took the torch of youth 3 passed to her by Breanna MacEachern, another outstanding U. of A. student who spoke at the 2012 ACR Awards Banquet, and very capably and engagingly addressed the “abstract topic” of leadership. Leadership is a choice, Nisha said. “We accept a 5 responsibility that goes beyond ourselves…. there’s this realization that our actions are going to affect other generations [and] you have to take into account the fact that we’re not alone, either in history, the present or the future…. The future is changing, but we’re the ones who are changing it.” Nisha Patel, who although perhaps exhib- Flanked by MIAC Chair Jim Carter on the far left and University of Alberta Dean of iting real courage by conquering the fear, 4 Engineering Dr. David Lynch on the far right, the justly proud MIAC and Ian Muirhead do come to the mike when asked so that scholarship winners smile for their bright futures. While ACR members are helping to enable those futures with, for one thing, their financial contributions in support of the voice and words of youth might reso- the scholarships, Jim and David have both played instrumental roles over the years in saving and building the program as a whole, thus bolstering the veracity of student nate in more seasoned ears. Nisha Patel’s comments on the timeless effects of leadership decisions. Jim and Nisha lightheartedly expressed their mutual love of competitive “We’re not alone, either 5 debate by trading comments on the relative merits of pursuing an education in engineering or law. in history, the present or the future.” aspirations or our impressions of lead- sense of entitlement among many of ership qualities in other people. She today’s youth, or of a lack of awareness of Ms. Patel spoke to the issue of leader- emphasized, too, the future impact of or respect for the lasting meaning of the ship which she called an abstract topic present-day choices: “Our actions are past, Ms. Patel graciously and gracefully that, playfully speaking “in her vast going to affect other generations,” she bridged that gap, if it exists, by suggest- experience,” came down to a choice. “We said. “We’re not alone, either in history, ing that decisions are ageless in their accept responsibility that goes beyond the present or the future.” capacity to shape events. “The future is ourselves,” she said, noting that leader- While there is occasionally talk changing,” she said, “but we’re the ones ship is often more about actions than among social pundits of an unfounded who are changing it.” ■

Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 37 Resources in theClassroom Linking curiosity with knowledge and expertise in faraway places

The Excite Learning Environment links students in the classroom with faraway experts in the field.

Early on at the ACR’s 77th annual a recent American news story that had promoting a 17.5” x 26” poster, avail- general meeting on February 8, 2013, featured a classroom of fourth-grade stu- able online in both French and English. President David Middleton cued the dents who, after having received general The poster treats the consequences of Alberta Distance Learning Centre’s new lessons in environmental sustainability, human activity and resource develop- “Excite Learning Project” video which voted 100 percent against the practice ment as disastrous and inevitable. It is later drew commendation for its bal- of fracking. While it was absolutely true, available for download on the “Social Eanced viewpoint from keynote speaker Dr. Stark affirmed, that the resource Justice” portion of the BCTF’s website, Dr. Philip H. Stark, Senior Research industry needed to continually earn its alongside others on such truly absolutist Director and Advisor, IHS Cambridge social license to operate, he found the topics as child poverty, racism, sex traf- Energy Research Associates. Dr. Stark biases and inaccuracies among some ficking, and homophobia. had been trying to relax in his hotel media and some academicians startling Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural room the night before, but wound up and disheartening. Resources Canada, suggested in the agitated when a TV rerun falsely alleged He might, in that context, have also media that the argument being made by methane in Pennsylvania tap water referred to a recent campaign by the the federation was one-sided, while the due to fracking. It recalled to his mind British Columbia Teachers Federation BCTF asserted that all viewpoints had

38 • Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 been represented in their information implies the development of a capacity The aim is to bolster kit. And, in fairness, it is important to for healthy skepticism and a willingness note that the federation does not directly and ability to discover facts or interpret fact-based balance in the or officially guide lesson plans or con- observations and results for oneself. tent in the B.C. classroom. In fact, the Consider, for example, the age-old if name of furthering the prescribed curriculum for Sustainable archaic question of a flat versus a spher- Resources 11 and 12 courses covers a ical earth. That there are, here in the development of a critical wide spectrum of topics, everything from 21st century, more than 400 members the importance of resources in society, to of the Flat Earth Society would likely sense of wonder and curiosity sustainability and environmental respon- strike most of us as mildly amusing. sibility, to innovation and the economic But pushed to actually prove spheric- in the next generation. impact of the resource industry. And, ity ourselves, we might surprisingly in addressing the rationale for Grade stumble a moment before thinking of Propose a flat earth: prove a round one. 12 courses as it relates to employment pictures of our globular planet from Propose environmental Armageddon: potential in resource industries, the B.C. space or curved earth shadows on an prove orderly and responsible resource Ministry of Education’s 2008 Integrated eclipsed moon, and even these non-sci- development. Resource Package on SR 11 and 12 entific observational proofs are not safe The film clip complimented by notes that: “There should also be discus- from dogma. Dr. Stark features some of the Excite sion around the topic of sustainability “That a fact becomes truth,” Learning Environment program’s archi- and how extracting and processing the Christine Garwood writes in her book tects—Tom Grabowski of the Silvacom resource does not always lead to negative Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Group, for example, and Ray Battochio of environmental effects.” Idea, which also references studies the Alberta Distance Learning Centre— The Alberta curriculum is equally suggesting that many school children as well as several teachers and students, broad-based in this regard. There are a believe what their eyes tell them about from Alberta’s Busby School, in par- number of junior and high school courses the earth’s shape “[is] not due to its ticular. The program aims to “Capture. available that teach personal and soci- demonstrability or even to its implicit Connect. Create.” That is, it links the etal environmental responsibility and veracity but to repetition, lazy-minded classroom to faraway places and people in stewardship. In ENS1040, for example, acceptance and the authority with the rest of world in the name of sparking Living With the Environment, stu- which it is told.”1 Which is to suggest interest and advancing learning. Aside dents “investigate methods to monitor that, although we shouldn’t necessar- from “cool,” a word that features promi- and measure the quality of natural and ily believe everything we see—a flat nently in the video is “real”: connecting, built environments in order to main- horizon, therefore a flat earth—nei- for kids, the somewhat fuzzy and theo- tain healthy and sustainable environ- ther should we believe everything we’re retical subjects covered in the structured ments.” In ENS3040, Energy and the told—teaching potentially vulnerable environment of the classroom with bits Environment, they “assess the social, young minds, through posters or com- and slices of real-life experiences actually economic and environmental benefits puter games, for example, that oil pipe- taking place outside of it. Learn that the and costs of resource development and lines inevitably cause environmental world is a globe in the classroom, see it demonstrate personal and shared actions devastation or, as according to Esquire proved by an expert a degree or so of arc that foster energy conservation and envi- magazine (Sep. 2012 edition), that Fort distant, have your imagination tweaked ronmental stewardship.” A number of McMurray is the “little Canadian town in a way that will drive you to learn and other courses speak more to the various that might just destroy the world.” Good do more with your life. technical aspects of resources exploration critical thought, like good exercise, And, in support of the existing cur- and extraction. They include ENS1115, requires constant training and effort— riculum, the point is not to counter bias Resource Management, PRS2030, Non- and an ear equipped to help distinguish or descend into the ad hominem, but to conventional Hydrocarbons Exploration, truth from sensationalism. bolster fact-based balance in the name and PRS2070, Refining Rocks and It is not that alternative theories of furthering the development of a criti- Minerals. should necessarily be skipped over or the cal sense of wonder and curiosity in the Among the more general goals of the risks of one economic, social, or envi- next generation. The Excite Learning Canadian science education program is ronmental action or impact ignored. Far Environment video can be viewed at instilling in students a “critical sense of from it. But demonstrable truth should http://www.excitelearning.ca/. ■ wonder and curiosity” about the world trump emotion every time, and as much around us, perhaps with the word “criti- as possible, a fundamental goal for all 1 Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea, cal” being especially important as it society should be fact-based balance. Christine Garwood, p. 301, Macmillan, 2007

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Three years ago, Alberta’s MLA the delivery of labour market programs, Committee on the First Nations, Métis and adopting a cross-ministry strategic and Inuit Workforce Planning Initiative approach that increases coordination submitted its report “Connecting and joint planning of viable opportuni- the Dots: Aboriginal Workforce and ties for aboriginal communities. In 2011, Economic Development in Alberta.” The the Alberta Government accepted almost Tcommittee had been appointed in 2008 all of the recommendations which are and, for an 18-month period after that, now “expected to lead to improved labour it travelled the province engaging in dia- market connections and greater eco- logue with as many stakeholders as it nomic opportunities for aboriginal people could: “The focus of the engagement,” it in Alberta.” said, “was increasing the participation of And today’s starting point would Aboriginal people in Alberta’s work force seem to be one of some relative strength.

and economy.” Alberta’s labour force survey, for exam- For decades the Alberta Chamber of The committee’s travels were evidently ple, reported that the employment rate Resources ran an employment service that included these aboriginal workers signing very productive and enlightening, the of aboriginal people living off-reserve up for jobs with Canada Tungsten Mining reception it received kind and hospitable. was the highest in Canada in 2012, a Corporation in the early 1960s. In raising expectations of future change, ranking that persisted through the early though, it was told that “many had months of 2013. Not all positive, the by Calgary and Edmonton, the highest come before” and that “there had been rates did tend to fall below the overall employment rate among all aboriginal lots of talk, but little in the way of con- Alberta average, not all regions posted people in Canada crete action.” Still, everyone, it seemed, gains, and the unemployment rate for • about 30 percent of aboriginal people could very easily share a vision of a better aboriginal people off-reserve was twice had less than a high school education future: better opportunities for education the Alberta average. Overall, the numbers tell something and employment for young people, better Other data, albeit somewhat dated of a story, one of potential and growing transportation networks, better housing, (i.e. from Census 2006), indicate that: ability and genuine desire mixed with less discrimination, more respect. • the average income for aboriginal peo- struggle, inequity, and other relative Although the committee did speak ple in Alberta was the highest among shortfalls. The narrative is also reflected with industry, its focus was elsewhere aboriginal people in Canada more personally and directly in the views and, ultimately, most of its 30 recom- • aboriginal Albertans tended to be and perspectives of aboriginal people and mendations were related to actions gov- younger than the Alberta population as communities; although it is difficult if ernment might take, coordinate, or lead a whole (e.g. about a third of aboriginal not impossible for even just two people to enhance the participation of aborigi- people were aged 14 or under) to speak with one voice, a quick review nal people in the Alberta economy—con- • there were nearly 90,000 aboriginal of first nations websites suggests at least tinuing to support the development of people in Alberta’s labour force in 2006 the prospect of a certain commonality of community-based workforce action plans, • Alberta’s aboriginal people had the sec- preference and objective across peoples for example, reducing duplication in ond highest participation rate and, led and regions. There are expectations of

Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 41 629427_Grande.indd 1 20/04/13 10:45 PM or aspirations for “sufficient resources Today, as just one of many such com- ACR’s 2006 publication, Learning from and quality lifestyles,” for example. Or panies, Syncrude is certainly not alone Experience: Aboriginal Programs in the for the “protection and conservation of continuing to build on a foundation that Resource Industries. And so are many Mother Earth.” For “healthy communities will sustain the opportunity—whether others: Alberta-Pacific Forest Products, through autonomy… traditional and for- it involves tapping into the best of the TransCanada Pipelines, Nexen, Elk Valley mal education.” For “helping bridge the modern or the traditional worlds. Coal, and Transwest Mining, among gap between aboriginal and non-aborigi- Syncrude was cited by 2012 Resource them. In all, 87 companies, organiza- nal communities.” For opportunity, train- Person of the Year, David Tuccaro, as tions, and government departments ing and skills development, economic having played a key and early role in the shared details of their programs and independence and self-sufficiency, and success of his businesses in the mid- practices in compiling Learning from the protection of traditional ways of life. 1990s, and beyond. The oil sands pro- Experience, which was conceived “as a In 2011, only about 11 percent of ducer is also featured prominently in continued on page 45 aboriginal people living off-reserve were employed in “forestry, fishing, mining, oil and gas” as compared to 68 percent employed in the services-producing sector. But the economic and operational synergies between the resource industry I AM A BUILDER and aboriginal employment and business development, while varying in magni- tude from one locale or region to the I AM FLUOR next and subject to one’s perspective, are enormous. For example, the resource, whether renewable or non-renewable, is often remotely situated, and nearby aboriginal communities are especially well-placed to share in and shape Innovation and entrepreneurial the opportunity. thinking are important parts And not just potentially, but in actual- of our culture. Over the past ity, across both companies and industries, and over time. century, Fluor employees In 2002, for example, at a confer- have been instrumental in ence in British Columbia, then Syncrude developing many of the tools President, Jim Carter, told business del- and systems commonly used on egates that “…if at the end of the day… large-scale projects to this day. you can see a future that incorporates or builds on a stronger aboriginal com- Today, our patent pending ponent to what you do…then, we’ll 3rd Gen Modular ExecutionSM have met minds and, to all our benefits, approach is changing the way have laid the groundwork for more fully we design and build oil sands unlocking the potential of every member facilities. The result? Greater cost of our society.”1 He was speaking from a fairly strong base of corporate history and schedule certainty, a smaller and experience: Syncrude had estab- footprint and significant cost lished a Native Development Program in savings for our clients. 1974, four years before it began operations. And, at the time of his presentation, Syncrude was Canada’s largest industrial employer of aboriginal people.

1 Breaking New Ground: Syncrude and the Oil © 2013 Fluor Corporation Sands Industry Partnerships with Aboriginal 3rd Gen Modular ExecutionSM is a service mark of Fluor. People, Presentation by Jim Carter to Aboriginal CA20130022001 Energy & Resource Developments in Canada, ADCA088013 Vancouver, B.C., March 27, 2002.

626115_Fluor.indd 1 06/02/13 2:08 AM Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 43 Selected Resource Industry Aboriginal Policies, Principles, and Practices

Company Comments

TransCanada Aboriginal relations policy includes collaboration, communication, respect for diversity and importance of the land. Policy is designed to be flexible to address the legal, social, and economic realities of aboriginal communities across Canada. Positive, sustainable aboriginal relations based on trust and respect have been an integral part of TransCanada’s operations for more than 30 years. Syncrude One of Canada’s largest industrial employers of aboriginal people (492 in 2011). More than $1.7 billion cumulative spending with aboriginal-owned businesses since 1992. More than $8.6 million cumulative community investment spending since 1992. ConocoPhillips Committed to incorporating local, traditional ecological knowledge and land use information into the planning, design, and construction of facilities and related operations. Contractor selection process rewards companies that use aboriginal, local, or regional contractors, and those that provide apprenticeships and training for local stakeholders. Enbridge Policy identifies key principles for aboriginal relations: respect for legal rights, traditional ways and land, heritage sites, environment, traditional knowledge. Offers sole-sourced contracting opportunities to qualified aboriginal and native American suppliers and contractors where appropriate, and will encourage joint venture opportunities between aboriginal/native American businesses and non-aboriginal/native American businesses when it builds capacity and supports mutual business interests. Teck Agreement negotiations typically led by operation, project, or exploration employees, with support, guidance, or direct participation from the corporate team. These agreements are sometimes negotiated with an indigenous group, or smaller individual indigenous groups such as first nations or Indian bands in Canada. Work to reach agreements that formalize relationships, provide capacity assistance, or create and increase business opportunities. At other times, agreements formalize shared understanding of land stewardship or knowledge-sharing protocols. Ledcor Aboriginal awareness and cultural training is mandatory for senior management and available to all Ledcor employees. Where a choice exists between local/aboriginal and non-local workers, suppliers and trade contractors, and providing there is no compromise to costs and quality, the local/ aboriginal workers, suppliers and trade contractors will be given preference.

Devon In 2010, helped build a high school and ensure an accredited educational program in the Métis community of Conklin that would allow students to earn diplomas while living at home with their families.

Penn West Supports development and sustainability of locally-owned aboriginal businesses in areas where the company operates, and encourages competitive and qualified aboriginal businesses to participate in operations. Strives to identify qualified aboriginal people for employment, both directly and through contractors.

Tolko Committed to work with aboriginal communities and individuals on the basis of mutual understanding, respect, trust, as well as recognition of and sensitivity to the different cultural values and traditions of each community in which the company operates. Ensures effective communication on forest management activities that involve aboriginal areas of interest.

Shell Working to increase the number of aboriginal people in workforce through apprenticeships and other programs. Has spent over $1 billion on contracts with aboriginal companies since 2005.

Husky Aboriginal Education Awards Program assists aboriginal people in achieving career success by encourag- ing the pursuit of advanced education. The program, which began in 1984, provides bursaries each year to aboriginal students pursuing high school upgrading, and post-secondary education related to the oil and natural gas sector. Has contributed more than $1 million to the program. Aboriginal vendor spending increased from $20.2 million in 2010 to $35.5 million in 2011.

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Company Comments

Alberta-Pacific Aboriginal relations strategy focuses on four key areas: economic development; employment and training; Forest Products education and consultation; and traditional use of land, forests, wildlife and cultural sites. Recognized as one of Canada’s best diversity employers.

Suncor Aboriginal relations policy guides company in building relationships based on transparency, mutual respect and trust. Works in collaboration with Canada’s aboriginal peoples to develop a thriving energy industry that allows aboriginal communities to be vibrant, diversified and sustainable. Has spent more than $1.9 billion on goods and services from aboriginal companies that serve the Wood Buffalo region.

Weyerhaeuser Believes that it makes sound, strategic business sense to support involvement of aboriginal peoples in Canada’s economic growth, and to work proactively to build mutually beneficial business relationships with aboriginal peoples. Policy is to work proactively to build mutually beneficial relationships with aboriginal peoples in the company’s areas of operation. A wide variety of strategies and activities are in place to foster direct and indirect training, skills development, and employment opportunities, business relationships, and community involvement.

Statoil Recognizes that business depends on ability to understand and respond to the needs and interests of stakeholders, to demonstrate that the benefits of presence on the whole outweigh the potential downsides, and to generate and sustain support from people and the communities.

Imperial Oil Employed about 112 aboriginal people in 2011. Works with local businesses to share project expectations and ensure aboriginal companies have the opportunity to bid on project work. Priority is to conduct business in a manner that respects the land, environment, rights, and culture of aboriginal communities. Created centre of expertise in Community and Aboriginal Affairs based in Calgary to support development, implementation and stewardship of aboriginal relations principles and guidelines.

Sources: Corporate websites and sustainability reports. Note: Companies have been randomly selected and the information presented reflects neither the entire portfolio of practices or policies of the company or, cumulatively, the ACR membership nor, given the limitations and permutations of research and reporting, the relative level of engagement of any particular company, listed or otherwise. continued from page 43

A great many resource an updating from time to time. Thus, a and ACR. But is that perfect endpoint great deal of work by the ACR Aboriginal of universal engagement really attain- industry companies take Relations Committee culminated in able? Perhaps not. There are few walks the launch of a new initiative—the of life that everyone shares, or that can the issue of aboriginal Aboriginal Workforce Development Pilot be dictated as right or wrong to one or Project—announced at a Service Canada the other. But the goal is laudable, the engagement very seriously press conference on February 8, 2013 direction is positive and, certainly, a (see the section on the ACR’s annual gen- heartfelt effort is being made. Too, the in deed, policy, and action. eral meeting in the preceding pages of potential to continue to work together— this magazine). industry, government, and the various way for [ACR] members to share the ben- And, as the accompanying table would stakeholder communities—to increase efits of their experiences in working with indicate, a great many resource industry mutual understanding and inclusive- Aboriginal communities.” companies take the issue of aboriginal ness, to better respect unique needs and It was a landmark effort and pub- engagement very seriously in deed, pol- cultural differences, and to share in the lication. And it lives on as a guide for icy, and action. pursuit of common aims and, there- how things can and should be done. But The “groundwork for more fully fore, the creation of the right kinds of more than six years on and in the realm unlocking the potential of every member agreeable and sustainable opportunities of “what have you done lately,” experi- of our society” has certainly been well and more of them, is there to be more ence requires a revisiting, a refining, laid, both by the Alberta Government fully unleashed. ■

Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 45 The Social Utility of Resource Development

Resource-related provincial government revenues help to provide many government services like health care and education.

From shareholders A 20th century cinematic take on the relationship between a business and its shareholders is comically presented in the to stakeholders, from 1956 film, The Solid Gold Cadillac, starring Judy Holliday. As a very small, enthusiastic, and engaged shareholder, she “threat- corporate social ens” to form a stockholders committee when a small group of directors fails, for one thing, to take the 200-plus-page annual responsibility to Areport seriously—“Page 32,” the Treasurer says meaninglessly just before sitting back down, “that’s a good page.” sustainability, from Not to take the connection between Hollywood and the real world too seriously, but the suggestion of a ‘50s gap between royalties to community aloof businessmen and broader society is probably not too far afield the modern perception of those faraway times. Profit was investment, the king; employment and dividends were side-effects. And while resource industry is a it may sound a little cold, it did encompass one of the chief and obvious ingredients of what we might today call sustain- key part of Alberta’s ability—the need for for-profit enterprises to make money to invest in continued operations, or to sustain themselves. social fabric The ingredient is still a necessary part of the mix today, of course. And, certainly for resource industries and society at

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Sources of General Revenue, Selected Provinces ($billions) Province Fiscal Total Taxes Natural Year Revenue Resource Total Corporate Personal Sales Revenue Nfld & Labrador 2013-14 6.39 5.30 0.38 1.11 1.00 2.24 Nova Scotia 2012-13 9.27 4.86 0.40 2.20 1.64 0.17 New Brunswick 2013-14 7.57 3.78 0.24 1.42 1.16 0.11 Ontario 2012-13 112.24 78.79 10.75 25.80 21.14 0.20 Saskatchewan 2013-14 11.61 5.99 0.99 2.45 1.40 2.67 Alberta 2013-14 38.61 19.05 4.82 10.00 0 7.25 British Columbia 2013-14 44.39 21.55 2.16 7.29 5.99 2.78

Sources: Provincial budgets, estimates current at the time of writing. Notes: For Nova Scotia NRR is the sum of provincial petroleum royalties and federal offshore oil and gas payments. For Newfoundland & Labrador, NRR = offshore royalties plus mining tax and royalties, both of which are included as part of total taxes. For New Brunswick, NRR = the sum of forests and mines royalties.

large, it still produces side-effects that, the Health department’s annual expense success to overall economic develop- as a numbers man, our treasurer of yore ($17.1 billion). “Natural resource revenue: ment. This change reflects the grow- might appreciate if we could extract him now there’s a path to social prosperity,” ing public sentiment against mere from the fictional past, imbue in him he might say, adding that the social util- production and consumption and in the power of more compelling storytell- ity of economic activity, as a side-effect of favor of performance, efficiency and ing, and present him with the data in the profit-making (or at least profit-seeking), sustainability.” 1 table above. still resides in the numbers. As the accompanying longer table “This is a good table,” he might But not, to carry the argument for- of selected resource industry commu- observe, “to begin to tell the story of ward, so much as it used to. nity investment activities would sug- how resources in the Alberta economy, A decade or so after The Solid Gold gest, Ms. Ballard knows whereof she and some others, contribute to the pub- Cadillac was released, the words “cor- speaks, and Weyerhaeuser, a pre-Solid lic good.” He could point out, for exam- porate social responsibility” came into Gold Cadillac philanthropist, is a genuine ple, that jurisdictions with significant play and “stakeholders” began to pop authority on the evolution of such mat- amounts of resource revenue earned up—people, whether alone or in groups, ters (it made its first charitable donation through taxes and royalties don’t seem who had an interest or a stake in what a in 1903, even predating the establish- to need either to take additional monies company did beyond any return it might ment of the Foundation noted below). from the bank accounts of the citizenry have offered on an investment. And the What does community development in taxes nor, presumably, to cut spend- concept of CSR stuck; it became a recom- and sustainability mean to the resource ing quite so much on things like health, mended business practice. industry, in general, today? Different social programs, infrastructure, or edu- And, then about another decade things to different companies. But a cation. Aside from noticing that Alberta after that, according to Ernesta Ballard, quick and random sampling from corpo- resource revenue could fund almost the Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, rate sustainability or other reports sheds entire New Brunswick budget, he might Weyerhaeuser, things had “morphed” some light: also note (by digging into the books a lit- even more towards sustainability report- • Weyerhaeuser (Ms. Ballard): “Sustain tle more deeply) that even in a relatively ing and ecological integrity. “With the ability for us means mobilizing our poor revenue-earning year like 2013 - 14, call for greater transparency, audited Alberta’s NRR could still pay the bill for financial statements were no longer 1 From remarks at the American Home Furnishings Alliance, Ashville, NC, December 1, 2010. the entire Education department ($6.2 enough,” she said. “In the 21st century, billion) or cover more than a third of we are expected to link our financial continued on page 51

Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 47 Some Resource Industry Community Investment Highlights

Company Comments

Acklands- Supports WIN House (Women In Need) as charity of choice for the month of December. Acklands-Grainger Grainger has become the number one provider during this annual event.

Bantrel Awarded the University of Calgary Schulich School of Engineering Dean’s Award for Corporate Leadership in 2012, in part for its commitment to the Project Engineering Management course. Also supports the University of Alberta, NAIT, SAIT, Keyano College, and other post-secondary educational institutions.

Husky Pledged $500,000 in 2013 towards the Calgary Police Foundation to support the Calgary Police Service’s Multi Agency School Support Team, an early intervention initiative supporting children and youth. Contributed $1.1 million in 2012 to Lakeland College’s Centennial Campaign. With 11 other oil and gas companies, donated $6.4 million for a new community arts and day care centre in Slave Lake.

Syncrude Has donated more than $25 million since 2007 towards various organizations and projects, emphasizing education, environment, health and safety, science and technology, aboriginal relations, local community development, arts and culture, and recreation. Investments include $1 million over four years to help establish a new Science and Technology Centre at Fort McMurray’s Father Patrick Mercredi High School, and $500,000 to the University of Alberta to support delivery in the Wood Buffalo region of the DiscoverE and WISEST (Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science and Technology) programs.

CP The 2012 CP Holiday Train Program raised more than $1 million and 400,000 pounds of food for local food bank programs in Canada and the U.S. Since 1999, the CP Holiday Train program has raised $7.4 million and three million pounds of food for local food shelves.

Talisman Committed $1 million in 2011 to Calgary’s Mount Royal University to establish the Talisman Energy Chair in Sustainability and the Environment Fund. The chair position will serve as a catalyst for supporting the university’s Centre of Excellence for Sustainability and the Environment. Also contributed $250,000 to the university to establish the Talisman Energy Centennial Scholarship Endowment to recognize academic excellence by aboriginal students in the field of science.

Coalspur With its Vista mine not slated for opening until 2015, Coalspur is nevertheless committed to community investment guided by four essential pillars: communities, education and training, environment and recreation, and health and wellness. Community spending will be directed to local community and aboriginal groups where efforts can have an impact in the long term, where the company can enhance community spirit and wellbeing, and where support will benefit the larger community.

Nexen In 2011 and 2012 provided a total of $750,000 to Calgary’s Drop-In & Rehabilitation Centre, which offers 119 affordable housing units to low income Calgarians. In 2012, donated $100,000 to Sorrentino’s Compassion House, a warm and supportive environment for women undergoing breast cancer treatment, diagnosis or fol- low up care at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton.

Enbridge Enterprise-wide community investment expenditure totaled $13 million in 2011; invested in more than 550 charitable, non-profit, and community organizations. Is the national title sponsor of 4-H Canada’s 2013 Centennial celebrations. The School Plus Program—one of Enbridge’s flagship community investment programs—was designed to encourage young Canadian aboriginal students to stay in school. Established in partnership with the Assembly of First Nations, the program supports enrichment programming and extra-curricular activities in first nations schools near major Enbridge pipeline routes from Alberta to Quebec.

Weyerhaeuser Since 1948, the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation played an integral role in the philanthropic efforts of the company. Formal philanthropic program is now directed through a company program called The Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund. Combined, these programs have provided more than $215 million in donations over more than six decades.

Capital Power Recognized by STARS in late 2012 for its corporate philanthropy in supporting STARS Critical Care and Transport Medicine Academy, the only program of its kind in North America. Named one of 2012’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens by Corporate Knights magazine.

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Company Comments

Shell Canada Through its “FuellingChange” program, grants a total of $2 million annually to projects that improve and restore Canada’s environment. Canadians vote for a favourite project from three areas: air, land, and water. Grant recipients include the Edson & District Recycling Society and the Lacombe Composite High School EcoVision Club.

Imperial Oil In 2012, invested $1 million over five years to establish the Aboriginal Science and Technology Education Program at Mount Royal University in Calgary with the aim of increasing the number of aboriginal students completing a degree from Mount Royal’s Faculty of Science and Technology. In 2011, Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil Canada, in association with its employees and retirees, raised close to $4.2 million across Canada for United Way-Centraide.

Stantec Targets donations of one percent of annual pretax profits to charitable and nonprofit organizations, encourages personal charitable giving by employees, and promotes and facilitates volunteerism by employees.

Suncor The Suncor Energy Foundation, funded entirely by Suncor, supports community-based initiatives that enhance the quality of life in Suncor’s key operating communities and add value through effective collaborations. Since its inception in 1998, the Foundation has invested more than $84 million in charitable organizations across Canada (more than $130 million when Suncor’s contributions outside the Foundation are included).

PCL In 2011-2012 committed $1 million to support Habitat for Humanity, a charitable organization dedicated to building homes and hope for well-deserving families. Endowed $50,000 toward a scholarship in the Alberta School of Business in the University of Alberta.

Teck Goal is to donate one percent of annual earnings before taxes on a five-year rolling average basis. In 2011, donated more than $24 million (of which $18.8 million was invested in Canada) to over 200 charitable organizations and projects. Contributions included local, regional, national and international initiatives that provided shared benefits to communities of interest.

CN The Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation was selected as the official beneficiary of the CN Miracle Match campaign to be held during the CN Canadian Women’s Open to take place August 19 - 25, 2013 in Edmonton. CN Miracle Match is a national charitable initiative that CN launched in 2006, which rallies communities across Canada behind a very worthy cause – supporting children’s hospitals. In the past seven years, the program has raised more than $8.2 million for children’s hospitals located in the cities across Canada that have hosted the Open.

Tolko Partnered with Northern Lakes College and the Northern Alberta Development Council in the 2012 launch of a trades and pre-employment training program through the High Prairie Regional Training and Development Centre, a re-purposed Tolko mill. The program, funded in part by the Rural Alberta Development Fund, focuses on providing hands-on training to Career and Technology Studies students in grades 10 to 12 enrolled in programming streams for electrician, welder, millwright, process operator, and power engineering.

Cenovus Energy In 2012, donated $1.5 million to the Calgary Stampede Foundation to create Western Heritage Trail in the Stampede’s new Riverfront Park. In the same year, donated $3 million to the new Trades and Technology Complex at SAIT Polytechnic that will help to address the shortage of skilled labour in the oil and natural gas industry.

EPCOR In early 2013, awarded nearly $100,000 in grants through the EPCOR Community Essentials Council to seven recipients including the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters, the Bissell Centre, and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Edmonton. The ECEC donates up to $400,000 a year.

Grande Donated $1 million to Grande Cache’s recreation centre, which houses a 25-meter, six-lane swimming pool, Cache Coal four-sheet curling rink, NHL-size arena, fitness centre and preschool.

Sources: Corporate websites or sustainability reports. Note: Companies have been randomly selected and the information presented reflects neither the entire community investment portfolio of the company nor, cumulatively, the ACR membership nor, given the limitations and permutations of research and reporting, the relative level of community involvement of any particular company, listed or otherwise.

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627989_Diversified.indd 1 24/03/13 6:53 AM continued from page 47 fabric, the environment, and the economy Task Force on Resource Development + talented people to convert the potential of all communities where the people of The Economy notes that “failure to make of our vast renewable resource, our trees, Graymont live and work.” headway in the court of public opinion and to deliver innovative products to soci- • Teck: “Putting safety, communities and can be a show stopper” and that “earning ety in the most efficient way.” the environment at the forefront of our a social license to operate now gener- • Coalspur: “We believe the success of decision making to deliver enduring ally requires much more than simply our business is underpinned by a strong value for shareholders.” checking off the technical standards” on commitment to all aspects of sustainable • Enbridge: “Defines CSR as conducting a regulatory review.” Active and visible development with an integrated approach business in a socially responsible and ethi- leadership is called for, and members are to economic, social and environmental cal way; protecting the environment and urged to “give high priority to foster- management and effective corporate the health and safety of people; supporting ing healthy local communities where governance.” human rights; and engaging, respecting they operate.” • Devon: “Corporate Social Responsibility and supporting the communities and cul- Clearly, from shareholders to stake- is the commitment of a corporation to tures close to the company’s operations.” holders, from CSR to sustainability, the conduct itself in ways that respect not • Nexen, on the meaning of social respon- narrative is an ongoing and a shifting only the needs of its shareholders but sibility: “Refers to earning and maintain- one, symbolized, appropriately enough, also provide sustained societal benefits ing Nexen’s Social Licence to operate by by the transition from old-fashioned black that build public trust and acceptance. It interacting openly and respectfully with and white to full Technicolor for the final is this public trust and acceptance that Stakeholders and Indigenous communi- frames of The Solid Gold Cadillac, and provides the basis for our social license ties, and by assessing and managing the the overall Good-Companies-Care-About- to operate.” social risks and impacts of our activities.” Their-Shareholders moral of the story. • Graymont: “Has a long-term commitment Several companies cite their “social But it does seem, in the resource indus- to being a good neighbour. That means license to operate” as a driver of sus- try, to be a story well learned and still helping maintain and enhance the social tainability and responsibility. The ACR’s being written. ■

621599_Japan.indd 1 Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory13/03/13 2013 12:02 • PM 51 Perspectives: Creating our energy future together

The debate around our energy future has never been as polarized as it is today. For Suncor, sustainable development guides our decision-making. We believe resources should be produced and used in ways that generate economic growth, create social benefits and minimize the impact on the environment. Our approach is to engage with a variety of stakeholders to help us see different perspectives. Together we can build the energy future we all desire.

Find out more about how Suncor is collaborating to responsibly develop North America’s energy supply. www.suncor.com/sustainability

626911_Suncor.indd 1 06/02/13 7:58 PM Mining of this gravel pit, operated by Border Paving near the City of Red Deer commenced in 1980 from the south end (top of photo) and has progressed to the current mining area in the foreground. Progressive reclamation on a yearly basis has maximized the land available for farming.

Environmental Innovation and Research in the Resource Industry A lot of resource industry innovation doesn’t make for glitzy or dramatic storytelling, but it’s what puts the “orderly” and the “responsible” into the development and makes an even better future possible

In his essay “Environmental Alarmism, by other Club analyses and forecasts since, Then and Now1,” Bjorn Lomborg, Adjunct the original book included frightening sce- Professor, Copenhagen Business School, narios that foresaw social collapse due to revisits the book, The Limits to Growth, pub- unchecked population and economic growth. lished in 1972 as part of the Club of Rome’s And, drawing positive contemporary reviews Project on the Predicament of Mankind. and influentially capturing the public imagi- IAlthough it has been updated or superseded nation, it sold well: 12 million copies in more than 30 translations. 1 Foreign Affairs, Volume 91 No. 4, July/August 2012

Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 53 Professor Lomborg’s article calls the important [driver] of all: people and their do not arise from a dearth of economic point of Limits to Growth obvious: “if ability to discover and innovate.” opportunity: poverty, deprivation, hope- ever-more people use ever-more stuff, In a world today certainly more con- lessness among them. And, in that con- eventually they will bump into the plan- nected, perhaps more informed, more text, as Professor Lomborg puts it: “The et’s physical limits.” But, forty years on, environmentally and socially conscien- Limits to Growth led people to question he questions the book’s conclusions: cal- tious, if not necessarily more polarized, the value of pursuing economic growth…. culations suggesting the world would than 40 years ago, Professor Lomborg’s Alarmism creates a lot of attention, but it run out of oil and natural gas and many views are, evidently and as almost any rarely leads to intelligent solutions for real other resources by 2012, for example. other, not incontrovertible. But, which- problems, something that requires calm “So why did the authors get it wrong?” he ever side of the fence one might stand consideration of the costs and benefits of asks. “Because they overlooked human upon, it is next to impossible to rationally various courses of action.” ingenuity…. [T]hey left out the most argue that real and dire consequences Growth—the extraction, transformation, transportation, and use of natural resources— is not anathema to the improvement of the human condition.

It is, of course, not within the realm of the Alberta resource industry to solve all global challenges associated with a lack of economic opportunity. Although a vast and mixed portfolio of world-class natural resources tempts and spurs ingenuity of all kinds within provincial borders, the sphere of influence is obvi- ously not that large. But the principle is regionally sound: growth—the extraction, transformation, transportation, and use of those resources—is not anathema to the improvement of the human condition; it is, in fact, a key ingredient in the maintenance and improvement of the quality of life that most of us enjoy or aspire to. Poverty is rarely a point of pride, hardly ever a badge of honour. As for the “calm consideration of intelligent solutions,” the long history of resource development in Alberta has been defined by hardly anything but. While it may sometimes seem otherwise to those who know the resource best through spo- radic encounters with popular news out- lets, the economic, environmental, and social challenges faced by the oil sands continued on page 57

629320_Penn.indd54 • Alberta 1 Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 18/03/13 4:15 PM Selected Resource Industry Environmental Innovation and Research Highlights

Company Comments

Hatch Ltd. With other industry partners, developing a method to extract bitumen in-situ from the oil sands—N- Solv™. The process uses proven horizontal well technology developed for the steam-assisted gravity drainage process, but differs significantly in that it does not use any water, yielding both economic and environmental benefits. Husky Working on new techniques to improve remediation results. The company is participating in a technology project that injects nutrients to enhance bio-degradation of hydrocarbons. This technology adds oxygen to the soil, enhancing microbial activity. At Cadotte (Seal Lake) facility in North Central Alberta, engaged Genalta Power, a company that specializes in waste power conversion, to create a system to capture odours, conserve gas and generate electricity. The waste fuel to power project will generate three megawatts of power: enough for nearly every home in the nearby town of Peace River while reducing flaring on site by more than 80 percent. Graymont Uniform environmental standards establish minimum environmental performance and operating standards that are applied to all facilities. Uses both internal and external environmental audits. Continually looks for ways to reduce energy consumption in lime kilns and other areas of the business. Uniform environmental standards related to fugitive dust control and exhaust gas scrubber and baghouse operations at all facilities. Standards designed to ensure that particulate emissions are minimized. Expects to continue to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through additional initiatives such as researching alternative biomass fuels and improving kiln and kiln-related equipment operations. Suncor Works with other oil sands producers to advance opportunities to recycle tailings water from a number of oil sands mining operations to replace groundwater currently used as makeup water to generate steam at most of the region’s in situ operations. Committed to managing air quality near operations and is working on achieving a ten percent absolute reduction in air emissions (nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides and volatile organic compounds) by 2015. TROTM process is expected to significantly accelerate the rate of land and tailings reclamation, eliminate the need for new tailings ponds at existing mine operations and, in the years ahead, reduce the number of tailings ponds at the present mine site. SGS Recently adopted “The Green Book,” a tool to assess and monitor the financial impact of sustainability performance. This helps improve people performance and reduce environmental impact. For example, costs

are measured related to turnover, sickness absence, energy, CO2, and many other sustainability indexes. The cost of sustainability performance has been estimated as equivalent to seven percent of revenue. Teck Approach to reclamation is consistent with overall vision of biodiversity conservation, and includes development of diverse wildlife habitats, annual winter wildlife surveys, documentation of wildlife using trail cameras, aerial seeding in mined-out pits, and the development of tracking databases to monitor rare and/or unusual wildlife sightings. Recognized as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations for 2013 by Corporate Knights. Lehigh Hanson Has developed EcoCemPLC (a Portland-limestone cement) and InterCem. These new products provide excellent performance with a lower environmental impact than normal Type GU portland cement. The company continues its research in finding new products that will positively impact the environment. Enbridge In addition to ongoing safety and system integrity improvements, actively seeks out world-class leak detec- tion and risk mitigation technologies. Collaborates with universities, private companies and multi-national corporations to support research and invests in companies to help them commercialize promising new technologies. Inaugurated the Enbridge Centre for Corporate Sustainability with the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business in 2012. The centre will be a hub for thought leadership in the area of corporate social responsibility and will advance corporate practices that help sustain our planet’s people, environment and economy. Based on its research and knowledge-gathering work, the Centre will develop business practices focused on advancing sustainability, corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility.

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Company Comments

Weyerhaeuser Spent $21.5 million in 2011 on research related to forest health and productivity, water quality, fish and wildlife, landscape management, biodiversity and other topics. Engaged in a five-year, $2.5 million conservation project with Ducks Unlimited that will provide science-based information to help manage migratory bird habitats in all three of the company’s Alberta forest management areas. Formed Catchlight Energy with Chevron in 2008 with a mission to commercialize large scale production of liquid transportation fuels from sustainable forest-based resources.

Shell Spent $1.1 billion globally on R&D in 2011. Over five years spent $2.3 billion on developing alternative

energies, carbon capture and storage, and on other CO2 R&D. Has partnered with the Nature Conservancy of Canada in land conservation for more than 28 years. In that time, Shell has donated more than $6 million in financial resources, land and mineral rights to the NCC. Since 2005, has invested nearly $200 million in tailings research, including setting up an advanced test facility at the Muskeg River Mine in Alberta.

Alberta Innovates Applies research to maintain wildlife, vegetation, and natural processes within ecosystems. An example is Technology Futures research conducted, in partnership with a variety of others, on Boreal toad habitat. The research results and technologies developed through these and other efforts enable enhanced, environmentally sustainable development policies and practices. In addition to providing a foundation upon which further research can be developed, insights gleaned will support the development of land management tools designed to address the needs of native species, like toads.

Imperial Oil Continues to work with several new technologies to boost recovery of bitumen resources by blending solvent with injected steam, resulting in lower energy input and greenhouse gas emissions intensity. LASER technology (liquid addition to steam to enhance recovery) currently being used in more than 200 wells at Cold Lake. Scientists at Calgary research centre exploring an emerging process—non-aqueous extraction, involving use of a hydrocarbon solvent in place of water for bitumen extraction with potential to create dry tailings, eliminating the need for wet tailings ponds. Research also underway on tailings dewatering, another technology that could potentially reduce the size of wet tailings ponds, enable water recycling and early progressive reclamation.

Lafarge Committed to providing products using sustainable manufacturing practices and improving the environments in and around plants. For example, the Process, Environment and Automation group at Lafarge’s Corporate Technical Services centre, one of the largest facilities of its kind in North America, promotes process mastery and energy efficiency while using alternative raw materials and fuels in an effort to reduce pollutants, minimize greenhouse gas emissions, and conserve natural resources. Through the Rocky Mountain Conservation Partnership, has also been working since 2004 with WWF-Canada to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the needs of wildlife in the area of operations in Bow Valley. This knowledge is used to help sustain wildlife populations, and conserve natural habitats and migration patterns.

Nexen Long Lake oil sands facility in northern Alberta features state-of-the-art sulphur recovery equipment that enables the capture of at least 98.4 percent of sulphur dioxide emissions. Project is also designed to recycle over 90 percent of all water used and fresh water consumption further reduced by using saline water in operations.

TransAlta/ Genessee 3, a joint venture between TransAlta and Capital Power, is the first facility in Canada to use Capital Power supercritical boiler technology. In a supercritical boiler, less fuel is used to produce the same amount of power. The higher steam temperatures and pressures, together with a high-efficiency steam turbine, means less coal is used per megawatt-hour of electrical energy than in conventional processes. The result is carbon dioxide emissions that are 18 per cent lower per megawatt than at an average coal-fired plant. As well, a $90 million investment in clean air technologies cuts nitrogen oxide emissions in half and stops 99.9 per cent of particulates from entering the atmosphere. It also cuts sulphur dioxide emissions significantly below the provincial emission levels.

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Company Comments

Devon Made a concerted effort to reduce the width of access roads in forested areas by as much as 50 percent, significantly reducing surface disturbance. In the process, using wood mulch in the surfacing of tem- porary roads, promoting faster regeneration of the forests to their native state. Foothills Research The recently formed FRI Caribou Program works closely with the FRI Grizzly Bear Program to model Institute a Caribou Program that meets the needs of partners and provides knowledge and tools that will ensure the long-term conservation of Caribou in Alberta. Syncrude Established a stand-alone research centre in Edmonton in 1994 and spends more than $60 million a year to improve knowledge and develop better ways. The company is among Canada’s top 50 R&D spenders. About 100 scientists and technologists work at the R&D Centre, including a growing team of experts dedicated to improving environmental performance; their efforts are supplemented by a rotating complement of more than 20 graduate students who become the next generation of oil sands scientists. Grande Cache Coal Maintains several monitoring programs for key wildlife species such as mountain goats and caribou. The company has also initiated a “Critter Card” program that enlists all employees in reporting locations of wildlife in project areas. Employees are alerted to areas of wildlife activity, such as wildlife crossing locations on haul roads, and mine activities are then adjusted as appropriate to maintain the safety of both wildlife and employees. A rare species of stream saxifrage (Saxifraga odontoloma) was identified at a site and the company started a mitigation program in order to ensure that this population is preserved and re-established after mining is completed. Statoil Believes the environmental, social, and economic challenges involved in oil sands development can be overcome. Goal is to become an industry leader in responsible oil sands development. The Leismer Demonstration Project started its first commercial production in 2011 and will trial over 20 experimen- tal technologies to achieve improved recovery and lower carbon dioxide intensity. Also aiming for a 45 percent reduction in water intensity over the next ten years. Sources: Company websites and sustainability reports. Note: additional information—in many instances including data on environmental performance, which is not the focus of this table—can be found on the websites of listed and other organizations or check out the “Energy Supply and Innovation” tab on the CAPP website for additional innovation stories and technologies. Also, companies have been randomly selected and the information presented reflects neither the entire research portfolio of the company nor, cumulatively, the ACR membership nor, given the limitations and permutations of research and reporting, the relative level of innovativeness of any particular company, listed or otherwise. continued from page 54 industry, for example, did not spring up of technical ingenuity to the solution of preservation as to sustaining the opera- overnight. The wild teenage years took economic riddles—Dr. Karl Clark’s work tion. As COSIA notes for its segment of place in the early part of the last century in the 1920s to figure out how to extract the resource industry, the focus is “on when would-be oil barons fruitlessly stuck oil from the sand at an affordable cost, accelerating the pace of improving envi- pipes in the ground in hopes of a gusher. for example—the theme of the high- ronmental performance in Canada’s But recklessness like that has never lighted processes and technologies being oil sands.” been rewarded and the narrative of the pursued and applied today is the reme- And as the report of the ACR Task much more mature-minded, knowledge- diation of environmental impact. This is Force on Resource Development + The based, problem-solving century since not to suggest, however, that developers Economy notes, “The challenges of has been marked by the kinds of recent are only now beginning to pay atten- reducing environmental footprints and innovations documented in the accom- tion to the non-economic aspects of their increasing economic competitiveness are panying table (additional or expanded operations and are merely playing catch- drivers to do better. Innovation offers the information can be found on company, up in the name of reputation-building. best means to meet these challenges.” Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance, The effort has, in fact, been ongoing for And as with nearly all science and as the or the Canadian Association of Petroleum decades. But the effort is responsive—in resource industry record would show, the Producers websites). tune with the growing expectations of end to the “predicament of mankind” is Although the early emphasis in many society that ingenuity be as thoroughly almost never in sight—just the next bet- cases would have been the application applied to environmental integrity and ter way and a better future. ■

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Founded on this wealth of resource industry experience, Aecon Mining was formed. Headquartered in Edmonton with a regional office in Fort McMurray and a permanent staff of Seamlessly 100, plus access to about 400 trades people, Aecon Mining has delivering logged projects with Suncor and ConocoPhillips, as well as its first project outside of Alberta—an $80 million contract for site the right work at BHP Billiton’s massive Jansen Lake potash mine devel- personnel for opment 140 kilometres east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. every project. Aecon Mining has also recently become a significant player in Northern Ontario, with the integration of Leo Alarie & Sons’ Pajak Engineering has been providing hardrock mining support services into the business fold. Never engineering expertise, project management services, well-site supervision and peace neglecting its roots, Aecon is also building a three-kilometre- of mind for our clients since 1966. long, 40-metrewide EarthZyme road for Syncrude; EarthZyme We are committed to the training and is a non-toxic enzyme soil stabilizer that improves the compac- qualiﬁcation of the skilled consultants we represent, and are proud to work with many tion and strength of clay-based roads. of Canada’s most respected operators. “We’ve spent the last several years integrating the business into Aecon Group, setting up new systems and establishing our- Visit www.pajakeng.com to learn more. selves in the market. We’ve taken on some pretty tough assign- ments and shown that we can compete with the best. Given the expansion plans on the books, Aecon Mining is certainly in a good position to provide the support these oil sands producers are looking for,” concludes Alexis Klimack, Regional Manager, Alberta. For additional information on all the latest and greatest happenings at Aecon, including Aecon Mining, check out aecon.com. ■

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The Biorefining Conversions Network University-based research network forms a vital link with ACR and offers leading-edge pathways to optimizing value in Alberta’s resource industry

In mid-2012, Alberta Chamber of Resources Executive Director Brad Anderson was invited to chair the Strategic Advisory Board The BCN Mission: of the Biorefining Conversions Network, a University of Alberta- Support Alberta’s research community, industry, and based group supporting research and development related to other partners for the development of advanced bioindus- biorefining and biomass conversion technologies. With already trial technologies compatible with both traditional and heavy workloads gobbling up the schedule and competing emerging industries Idemands presenting a host of other, perhaps more readily obvious business-related choices, it probably wouldn’t have been awash in technical jargon that can easily intimidate the uniniti- unreasonable to politely turn the invitation aside. But, digging a ated. It encompasses terms, for example, such as the biorefining little deeper, it soon became clear that the attributes and advan- concept, fractionating biomass, nanomembranes, bioplastics, tages of participation—on behalf both of the ACR membership deoxygenation, bio-polyols, and reductive ozonolysis. and the network’s growing and diverse partnership—were huge. But appropriately emblematic of the BCN’s capacity to tran- “The more I looked at what the BCN did and at the caliber scend technical, organizational, and industrial boundaries in pur- of the people involved, the more everything seemed to fall into suit of broad-based excellence in its work, Dr. David Bressler, BCN place with what we do at the ACR,” Brad says. “The synergies Executive Director, and Professor, Agriculture, Food & Nutritional were really amazing: it’s all about fostering and applying inno- Science, U. of A., can very approachably frame the substance of vation in support of the orderly and responsible development what the network does in user-friendly terms: “We’re trying to cre- of Alberta’s resources, capturing the highest value from those ate a mechanism to do science in a different way,” he says. “And, resources, all about the discovery and sharing of best practices.” often acting as if we were a company’s research arm, we’re work- And, in assessing the fit, it helped, too, that the BCN had ing with industry stakeholders across the board from the forestry, posted a pretty solid track record of performance over the previ- energy, chemical, and agricultural sectors to identify ways to diver- ous three years. To help give focus to the fragments of bioin- sify product bases through research.” Put as plainly as possible, the dustrial research and development and create a critical mass of BCN projects that have made great strides toward commercializa- capacity in Alberta, the network was officially launched in April tion over the years include: 2009 with an investment of $3 million from the predecessor • Lipids-to-Hydrocarbon: The refined patented technology organization of Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions. As the work converts lipid based products such as animal fats, vegetable ensued, that initial stake was used to leverage additional funds oils and other industrial by-products (e.g. tall oil) to valu- and attract new projects into the network; three years later the able hydrocarbons such as solvents, natural gas, jet fuel, total value of funds was roughly C$6.7 million and today runs diesel and lubricating oil fractions without the need for co- close to $10 million. BCN’s main goal is helping to catalyze reagents, hydrogen, or catalysts. the development of a bioindustrial sector in Alberta through a • Production of Dimethyl Ether from Biomass: An improved number of targeted outcomes, or side benefits, that include: the method for catalytic conversion of biomass based methanol development of patentable, commercially viable, novel biomass to dimethyl ether, a potential fuel and important chemical conversion technologies; technology transfer; and the training intermediate. of highly qualified personnel. • Production of Bio-Polyols and Chemical Intermediates from Like any organization or discipline engaged in esoteric Lipids: This ongoing program focuses on developing clean, leading-edge science, the BCN’s world is often (and necessarily) continued on page 65

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64 •625089_WesTower.indd Alberta Chamber of 1 Resources Directory 2013 22/01/13 7:52 AM continued from page 63 The BCN actively seeks out academic collaborators and green technologies for the conversion of Alberta-based plant industry partners who share a common interest in shaping the oils into renewable materials and chemicals such as resins, future of bioindustrial technologies, and there are a number adhesives, and aldehydes. of ways to explore the opportunities. Visiting the website—at • Government-Forestry Industry Linkages: The BCN estab- www.bcn.ualberta.ca—is a good first step. The BCN also hosts a lished working partnerships with Alberta Environment and strategic meeting each fall, bringing together academic, indus- Sustainable Resource Development and forest industry stake- trial, and government representatives from the traditionally holders (e.g. Weyerhaeuser, Miller Western, West Fraser, separate agriculture, forestry, oil and gas, and petrochemical Alberta Newsprint) to identify opportunities to convert unde- sectors and, again, details of the event can be explored online. ■ rutilized forest and pulp and paper byproduct streams to value-added bioproducts, and linked with researchers across Alberta delivering teams around industry needs. Put a bit more formally and technically: the BCN supports Alberta’s Industrial Heartland is research and development of biorefining and biomass conver- Canada’s largest hydrocarbon sion technologies using a multidisciplinary approach today cen- processing region and an tred around feedstock pre-processing and logistics, biocatalysis ideal location for future and fermentation, and advanced chemical conversions. chemical, petrochemical, oil, Dr. Bressler—who also sits on the scientific advisory and gas investment. Industrial board of a $350-million US-based venture capital fund and development and investment wears many other hats over the course of a typical work- attraction in the Heartland is day, as well—emphasizes the unique structure of the net- guided by a municipal partnership work as facilitating particularly responsive, flexible, and dedicated to ensuring beneﬁ ts for dynamic partnerships—relationships that identify or trans- both industry and the community. late research needs, and enable the building of one-of-a-kind academic teams around what industry has identified as its priorities—an unusual way to do things within the academic system. The recently-formed ACR connection throws a two- way lifeline, one end instilling a more broadly-based and improved awareness in the BCN of the needs of the industry, the other linking ACR members to a research network that rather than selling pre-hatched ideas is, instead, focused on building trust relationships between the research community 780.998.7453 [email protected] and industry. “You need all the different disciplines academia www.industrialheartland.com has to provide in order to support the industry,” Dr. Bressler www.facebook.com/industrialheartland says. “So instead of trying to make every academic an applied researcher, it’s good to have the network to handle the Twitter: @ABheartland translation.”

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Keyano College Building foundations of knowledge, innovation, and shared opportunity in the heart of the oil sands

In 1999, then Syncrude CEO Eric Newell gave “roadshow” potential of Alberta’s vast resource base, and Keyano College speeches in Edmonton and Calgary asking his business audi- has long been among the best positioned to help open the door ences to more seriously consider “the potential of stronger rela- on opportunity, for everyone. tionships with education.” To help make the case, he outlined Keyano College is located in the heart of the oil sands region Syncrude’s own long history of working closely with Keyano in Fort McMurray—it is, in fact, the only comprehensive com- College, in particular, to help develop the specialized skills and munity college in all of Wood Buffalo—and offers specialized Iwell-trained workforce his company and industry needed to training to more than 3,000 credit students and nearly 13,000 succeed, both then, at the turn of the century, and beyond to continuing education students. The main Clearwater Campus a time when the demand for trade, professional, and leadership is located in downtown Fort McMurray with the Suncor Energy know-how and lifelong learning was sure to be amplified. Industrial Campus located in the Gregoire Industrial Park and Now, nearly a decade-and-a-half later, the relationship with the newest campus in Fort Chipewyan. Learning Centres are Syncrude, and many other enterprises like it, still thrives. It located in Fort McKay, Anzac, Janvier, and Conklin. is, in fact, hard to think of an institution of post-secondary The institution opened in Fort McMurray in 1965 as the learning, not only more proximate to one of the greatest natu- Alberta Vocational Centre, and in 1978 Keyano College went ral resource treasures in the world, but more historically and public and became a community college when the province immediately central as well to the pace and tenor of its orderly appointed a Board of Governors to serve as the decision-making and responsible development. Knowledge and innovation have body. Over the years, Keyano’s programs and service offerings always been the master keys for more fully unlocking the continued on page 69

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418577_NHC.indd 1 2/4/09 10:32:30 AM 68 • Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 621341_Norwest.indd 1 27/12/12 9:54 AM continued from page 67 have become more diversified in accordance with the demands and interests of the region’s expanding population and mul- ticultural orientation. As well, a dynamic economy requires a continual and progressive repositioning of Keyano’s existing program mix in service of ever-changing regional priorities. Today, students can choose from certificate and diploma programs in a wide variety of areas: Aboriginal Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, Environmental Technology, Office Administration, Practical Nurse, and Human Resources Management, among them. A host of safety certifica- tion, technical, language, personal development and other continuing education courses are also on offer. business skills and knowledge without having to leave their jobs A number of trades programs are available as well, such as or relocate their families. Mechanical Construction Trades Preparation, Heavy Equipment Among some recent performance outcomes, Keyano has: Technician—FINNtech, Power and Process Engineering, and • Supported faculty-driven applied research and innovation initia- more. In partnership with other institutions and national tives through the Innovation Fund industry organizations, Keyano offers quality, accredited • Collaborated with stakeholders in Fort Chipewyan to offer the programs leading to nationally recognized professional cer- first pre-employment Carpentry program tifications including Occupational Health & Safety, Supply • Provided advanced haul truck evaluations for more than 200 Management and much more. By partnering with industry oil sands industry employees, and evaluated over 1,100 welders leaders, students are given the chance to work in their job through invigilation of over 2,200 welding recertification exams of choice before graduating. The new FINNtech program, • Initiated accreditation for the Haul Truck program through the is a partnership with Finning that trains Heavy Equipment Mining Industry Human Resource Council Technicians through theory and technical training by alternat- • Collaborated with the Registered Apprenticeship Program and ing classroom time and working at a Finning site. Careers: The Next Generation to enhance system planning Apprenticeship programs are also offered for trades such Keyano College also plays a pivotal role in enhancing the as Carpenter, Crane and Hoisting Operator (Mobile and quality of life within the Wood Buffalo region by collaborating Tower), Electrician, Heavy Equipment Technician, Millwright, with stakeholders to support social, cultural, and economic Steamfitter/Pipefitter, and Welder. First-rate technology is used development initiatives. The College’s specialized facilities and to provide the Keyano Advantage, which is why a new Oil Sands expertise available through its theatre, conservatory, and the Power and Process Engineering Laboratory is under construc- Syncrude Sport & Wellness Centre make Keyano an integral tion. This facility, which was funded in part by industry leaders, partner in providing arts, cultural, and recreational experi- will begin training students in January 2014. ences for students and other residents of Wood Buffalo. Keyano To spotlight just two Keyano programs particularly relevant College has actively positioned itself as a community builder to industry, Environmental Technology, a two-year diploma along with its industry and community partners and, accord- program, focuses on the environmental issues, problems, and ingly, has facilitated both the achievement of rural development solutions that are associated with natural resources. And the objectives by educating and training the human resource capi- Aboriginal Entrepreneurship Program is designed to allow tal required for industry expansion, while also serving as the individuals working in Aboriginal business settings to acquire primary acculturating institution within the region. ■

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I Major companies involved in resource exploration and/or development. II Small companies involved in resource exploration and/or development, or supporting companies largely dependent upon resource development. III Supporting companies moderately dependent upon resource development. IV Individuals (i.e. retiree, sole practitioner).

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Grindstone_589970.indd 1 28/05/12 2:50 PM 72 • Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 634462_Keyano.indd 1 04/04/13 2:22 PM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Acklands-Grainger Inc. Alberta-Pacific Forest Associated Engineering Ray Guidinger, Industries Inc. Hans Wolf, M.Eng., P.Eng., Industrial and General Manager, Alberta North Mike Voisin, Director, Building Services Group Manager 11708 - 167 Street NW Business and Public Affairs 1000, 10909 Jasper Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T5M 3Z2 212, 13220 St. Albert Trail Edmonton, AB T5J 5B9 P: 780 453-0332 Edmonton, AB T5L 4W1 P: 780 969-6349 F: 780 454-1033 [email protected] P: 780 495-1221 F: 780 495-1224 [email protected] www.acklandsgrainger.com [email protected] www.ae.ca Aecon Group Inc. www.alpac.ca Association for Mineral Exploration BC John Singleton, P.Eng., Alberta’s Industrial Gavin C. Dirom, M.Sc., P.Ag, Senior Vice President, Mining Heartland Association President & Chief Executive Officer 301, 1003 Ellwood Road SW Neil Shelly, Executive Director 800, 889 West Pender Street Edmonton, AB T6X 0B3 300, 9940 - 99 Avenue Vancouver, BC V6C 3B2 P: 780 430-4070 F: 780 430-4775 Fort Saskatchewan, AB T8L 4G8 P: 604 630-3920 F: 604 681-2363 [email protected] P: 780 998-7453 F: 780 998-7543 [email protected] www.aecon.om [email protected] www.amebec.ca Ainsworth Engineered Canada LP Algor Enterprises Bert Lang & Associates Postal Mail Bag 6700 Alex Gordon, President Bert Lang, President Grande Prairie, AB T8V 6Y9 1462 Oakland Close 22 Wellington Crescent NW P: 780 831-2507 F: 780 831-2501 Devon, AB T9G 2G1 Edmonton, AB T5N 3V2 www.ainsworthengineered.com P: 780 919-5091 F: 780 987-0344 P: 780 497-8737 F: 780 453-2087 Alberta Association of [email protected] [email protected] Colleges & Technical Institute Almdal Consultants Ltd. Bietz Resources Ltd. A622G, 10215 - 108 Street William Almdal, President Brian Bietz, President Edmonton, AB T5J 1L6 20 Briarwood Village 3124 Signal Hill Drive SW P: 780 633-3101 F: 780 633-3388 Stony Plain, AB T7Z 2Y7 Calgary, AB T3H 3T2 [email protected] P: 780 968-9128 F: 780 963-9212 P: 403 259-6571 F: 403 686-6131 Alberta Chambers of Commerce [email protected] [email protected] Ken Kobly, President & CEO AMEC Environment & Infrastructure Bird Industrial Group 1808, 10025 - 102A Avenue Brian Ross, Executive Vice President, Gilles Royer, Senior Vice President Edmonton, AB T5J 2Z2 Western Canada/South America 16815 - 117 Avenue NW P: 780 425-4180 F: 780 429-1061 140 Quarry Park Blvd. SE Edmonton, AB T5M 3V6 [email protected] Calgary, AB T2C 3G3 P: 780 452-8770 F: 780 455-2807 www.abchamber.ca P: 403 387-1601 F: 403 569-9031 [email protected] Alberta Energy [email protected] www.bird.ca Mike Ekelund, www.amec.com Border Paving Ltd. 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635060_Waiward.indd 1 29/03/13 5:37 AM 74 • Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 619823_Scott.indd 1 09/05/13 11:14 AM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Canadian Association of CAREERS: The Next Generation Cenovus Energy Inc. Petroleum Producers Andy Neigel, President & CEO Jon Mitchell, Director, David Collyer, President 204, 10470 - 176 Street Environment Policy & Strategy 2100, 350 - 7 Avenue SW Edmonton, AB T5S 1L3 500 Centre Street SE Calgary, AB T2P 3N9 P: 780 426-3414 F: 780 428-8164 PO Box 766 P: 403 267-1102 F: 403 266-3147 [email protected] Calgary, AB T2P 0M5 [email protected] www.nextgen.org P: 403 766-2462 F: 403 766-6563 www.capp.ca Carmacks Enterprises Ltd. [email protected] www.cenovus.com Canadian Energy Inc. Keith James, President Richard Caron, President 701 - 25 Avenue Christian Labour 1105 Bell Tower, 10104 - 103 Avenue Nisku, AB T9E 0C1 Association of Canada (CLAC) Edmonton, AB T5J 0H8 P: 780 955-5545 F: 780 955-1768 Wayne Prins, Provincial Director P: 780 496-9232 F: 780 496-9172 [email protected] 8219 Fraser Avenue Unit A [email protected] www.carmacksent.com Fort McMurray, AB T9H 0E3 Canadian Oil Sands Limited Carscallen LLP P: 780 792-5292 F: 780 791-9711 Darren Hardy, David L. Sevalrud, ICD.D, Lawyer [email protected] www.clac.ca Sr. Vice President, Operations 1500, 407 - 2nd Street SW 2500 First Canadian Centre Calgary, AB T2P 2Y3 CIBC 350 - 7 Avenue SW P: 403 298-9290 F: 403 262-2952 Randy Geislinger, CFA, Calgary, AB T2P 3N9 [email protected] Executive Director, Energy, P: 403 218-6235 F: 403 218-6248 Caterpillar Mining Canada Corporate Credit Products [email protected] Mike Reinsma, General Manager 9th Floor Bankers Hall E www.cdnoilsands.com 201, 13245 - 140 Avenue 855 - 2nd Street SW CanZealand Geoscience Ltd. Edmonton, AB T6V 0E4 Calgary, AB T2P 2P2 R.J. (Rick) Richardson, M.Sc., P.Geol., President P: 780 733-1380 F: 780 482-7858 P: 403 221-5784 F: 403 221-5779 [email protected] 250 Kepa Road, Mission Bay [email protected] www.cibc.com Auckland, New Zealand 1071 www.mining.cat.com P: +64+9 940-1949 CEDA International Corporation Clark Builders [email protected] Todd Anderson, Vice President, Andy Clark, Chief Executive Officer Capital Power Corporation Sales and Marketing 4703 - 52 Avenue NW Bryan DeNeve, Senior Vice President, 2200, 250 - 5th Street SW Edmonton, AB T6B 3R6 Corporate Development and Commercial Services Calgary, AB T2P 0R4 P: 780 395-3300 F: 780 395-3542 [email protected] 1200, 10423 - 101 Street P: 403 476-5600 F: 403 476-5648 www.clarkbuilders.com Edmonton, AB T5H 0E9 [email protected] P: 780 392-5451 F: 780 392-5200 www.cedagroup.com ClearStream Energy Holdings LP [email protected] Paul Bourque, Vice President, www.capitalpower.com Business Development 2112 Premier Way Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2G4 P: 780 410-9835 F: 780 410-1966 [email protected] www.clearstreamenergy.ca

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P: 403 233-3287 F: 403 233-5125 R e [email protected] s www.conocophillips.ca o u Construction Labour r c Relations - Alberta e s Neil Tidsbury, President 207, 2725 - 12 Street NE in d Calgary, AB T2E 7J2 u P: 403 250-7390 F: 403 250-5516 s t [email protected] ry www.clra.org c om Consulting Engineers of Alberta es Ken Pilip, P.Eng., CEO & Registrar fro 870, 10020 - 101A Avenue NW m t Edmonton, AB T5J 3G2 he t P: 780 421-1852 F: 780 424-5225 enac [email protected] ity to www.cea.ca Dig De Creative Management Solutions ep Shabbir Hakim, Consultant DigDig Deeper.Dig Deeper. Deeper.Dig Deeper. e DigDig Deeper. Deeper.DigDigDig Deeper.Deeper.Dig DigDeeper. Deeper. Deeper. r 123 Midpark Crescent SE DigDig Deeper. Deeper. Dig Deeper.Dig Deeper.. Calgary, AB T2X 1S7 Dig Deeper. P: 403 828-6881 F: 403 254-4346 [email protected] Davis LLP David Stratton, QC, Partner 1201 Scotia 2, 10060 Jasper Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T5J 4E5 P: 780 429-6804 F: 780 702-4353 [email protected] Businesses turn to Osler for clear, proactive legal advice when it’s business www.davis.ca Dekita International Inc. critical. Direct access to the right expertise and a pragmatic approach to Doug McDonald, President project management ensure an efﬁ cient path from start to ﬁ nish. 4122 Camelback Way Vernon, BC V1T 9W4 P: 250 307-8984 [email protected] Calgary | Toronto | Montréal | Ottawa | New York

625898_Osler.indd 1 Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 22/03/132013 • 77 1:32 PM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Enbridge Pipelines Inc. EPCOR Utilities Inc. Canada Ltd. Cynthia Hansen, Stephen Stanley, B.Sc.,M.Sc., Jon d’Easum, Senior Director Operations, Sr. Vice President, Enterprise Safety & P.hD.,P.Eng., Senior Vice President, Western Canada Operational Reliability Water Services 1520, 727 - 7th Avenue SW 3000, 425 - 1st Street SW 2000, 10423 - 101 Street Calgary, AB T2P 0Z5 Calgary, Alberta T2P 3L8 Edmonton, AB T5H 0E8 P: 403 263-2141 F: 403 263-2142 P. 403 231-3900 P: 780 412-7755 F: 780 425-7876 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.dmainc.ca www.enbridge.com www.epcor.com Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Energy Futures Network Esak Consulting Ltd. Robin Bobocel, Vice President, Public Affairs Bob Taylor, Founding Partner Lynette Esak, M.Sc.,P.Ag., EP, 600, 9990 Jasper Avenue NW 5108 Varscliff Road NW President / Sr. Soil Scientist Edmonton, AB T5J 1P7 Calgary, AB T3A 0G3 10714 - 124 Street NW P: 780 426-4620 F: 780 424-7946 P: 403 614-3154 Edmonton, AB T5M 0H1 [email protected] [email protected] P: 780 452-4125 Ext. 245 www.edmontonchamber.com www.energyfuturesnetwork.com F: 780 451-7665 [email protected] www.esakconsulting.com ETCON Ltd. Andrew Etmanski, President Box 35721 10405 Jasper Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T5J 3S2 P: 780 720-4445 F: 780 401-3108 [email protected] Finning (Canada) David Primrose, Executive Vice President Mining, Construction & Forestry 16830 - 107 Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T5P 4C3 P: 780 930-8592 F: 780 930-4806 [email protected] www.finning.ca Fluor Canada Ltd. Scott McArthur, General Manager, Business Development and Sales 55 Sunpark Plaza SE Calgary, AB T2X 3R4 P: 403 537-5441 F: 403 537-4800 [email protected] www.fluor.com Foothills Research Institute Bill Tinge, General Manager PO Box 6330 Hinton, AB T7V 1X6 P: 780 865-8332 F: 780 865-8331 [email protected] www.foothillsresearchinstitute.ca Fort McKay Group of Companies PO Box 5360 Fort McMurray, AB T9H 3G4 P: 780 828-2400 F: 780 742-0038 www.fortmckaygroup.com Garritty & Baker Drilling Inc. Don McKenzie, C.A., President ŵĞĐŽƉƌŽǀŝĚĞƐƐĂĨĞ͕ƌĞůŝĂďůĞĂŶĚŵĂŝŶƚĂŝŶĞĚĞƋƵŝƉŵĞŶƚƐŽůƵƟŽŶƐ 5715 - 56 Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T6B 3G3 to the global mining industry. P: 780 433-8786 F: 780 436-1467 [email protected] KƉĞƌĂƟŶŐŽƵƚŽĨƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂ͕/ŶĚŽŶĞƐŝĂ͕ĂŶĂĚĂĂŶĚŚŝůĞ͕ŵĞĐŽ͛Ɛ www.gbdrilling.com experienced teams provide the highest levels of customer service and Gecko Safety Inc. Adam Wargon, President ŵĂŝŶƚĞŶĂŶĐĞĐĂƉĂďŝůŝƟĞƐƚŽƐĂĨĞůǇĚĞůŝǀĞƌďĞƐƚͲŝŶͲĐůĂƐƐĞƋƵŝƉŵĞŶƚƚŽ 304, 5904 - 51 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 4H9 the go line for mining companies. P: 403 505-8888 [email protected] Enquire today about our extensive Ňeet of leading edge and low houred equipment: GEOIP Earth Resources Dozers — 35 tonne to 150 tonne, Loaders — 150kW to 500kW, Graders — 140kW to Don Currie, Owner, President 14419 Mackenzie Drive NW 200kW, Excavators — 35 tonne to 350 tonne, Rigid frame trucks — 50 to 240 tonne Edmonton, AB T5R 5V6 P: 780 454-0404 [email protected] Edmonton Fort MacKay Gibson Energy Ltd. 17420 Stony Plain Rd., Lot 6, Caribou Industrial Park, Fort McKay, Rick Wise, Suite 100 Edmonton, Alberta CANADA Senior Vice President, Operations Alberta CANADA T5S 1K6 c/o our Edmonton address 1700, 440 - 2 Avenue SW Phone: +1 780-743-9797 Phone: +1 780-483-2942 Calgary, AB T2P 5E9 Fax: +1 780-489-7813 Fax: +1 780-743-9785 P: 403 206-4000 [email protected] www.gibsons.com www.emecogroup.com

624596_Emeco.indd78 • Alberta 1 Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 06/05/13 4:44 PM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Golder Associates Husky Energy Inc. IHS Global Canada Limited Chantale Blais, Principal and David Long, Steven J. Kelly, P.Eng., Vice President Operations Manager General Manager, Oil Sands 1720, 144 - 4 Avenue SW 102, 2530 - 3rd Avenue SE PO Box 6525, Station D Calgary, AB T2P 3N4 Calgary, AB T2A 7W5 707 - 8 Avenue SW P: 403 984-2200 F: 403 984-2201 P: 403 299-5600 F: 403 299-5606 Calgary, AB T2P 3G7 [email protected] [email protected] P: 403 298-7299 F: 403 750-3568 www.ihs.com www.golder.com [email protected] Imperial Oil Resources Graham Industrial Services Ltd. www.huskyenergy.com Rick J. Gallant, Vice President, Oil Sands Brian Lueken, President Ian Murray & Company Ltd. (IMC) Development & Research 8404 McIntyre Road NW Ian Murray, President PO Box 2480, Station M Edmonton, AB T6E 6V3 1400, 10025 - 106 Street NW 237 - 4 Avenue SW P: 780 430-9600 F: 780 485-3888 Edmonton, AB T5J 1G4 Calgary, AB T2P 3M9 [email protected] P: 780 482-5577 F: 780 482-5939 P: 403 237-4065 F: 403 237-4011 www.graham.ca [email protected] [email protected] Grande Cache Coal Corporation www.imcprojects.ca www.imperialoil.ca Lloyd Metz, Vice President, Operations and Development 1610, 800 - 5th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3T6 P: 403 543-7070 F: 403 543-7092 [email protected] www.gccoal.com Graymont Western Canada Inc. Sunil Joshi, Vice President, Sales and Distribution 260, 4311 - 12 Street NE Calgary, AB T2E 4P9 P: 403 219-1327 [email protected] www.graymont.com Grindstone Creek Energy Services Ltd. Frank Bajc, President 132 Grindstone Way Dundas, ON L9H 7B8 P: 905 690-4421 F: 905 690-4795 [email protected] www.gcenergy.com Grizzco First Nation Management Corporation Andy Andersen, Administrator PO Box 4238 Spruce Grove, AB T7X 3B4 P: 780 455-2235 F: 780 455-2236 [email protected] http://www.grizzcofirstnations.com/ come join us. Guthrie Mechanical Services Ltd. TRAINING: Doug Bruce, General Manager Our unions offer the best training in the industry 9916 Manning Avenue for all levels and all construction crafts. Fort McMurray, AB T9H 2B9 P: 780 791-1367 F: 780 791-2002 SUPPORT: [email protected] Your career will be supported whether you are H. Wilson Industries (2010) Ltd. an apprentice or journeyman. We take you to the Wes Holodniuk, General Manager highest level. P.O Box 5660 Fort McMurray, AB T9H 3G6 SAFETY: P: 780 743-1881 F: 780 743-0515 Our worksites are the safest in the construction [email protected] industry and our safety record is second to none. www.wilson-industries.com Harvest Operations Corp. ACCESS: Leslie Hogan, We offer you a wide range of opportunities Chief Operating Officer for work in construction in Alberta. 2100, 330 - 5 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 0L4 QUALITY: P: 403 261-8208 F: 403 261-5189 From start to completion, our construction [email protected] projects meet the highest standards in the www.harvestenergy.ca industry. Hatch Ltd. COMPENSATION: Craig Croney, Director, Our unions offer the best wages and benefits in Western Canada Oil & Gas the business. 700, 840 - 7th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3G2 HISTORY: P: 403 269-9555 F: 403 266-5736 You are not just hiring labour: you are hiring [email protected] skilled craftsmen with a proud tradition. www.hatch.ca Hemmera Don Wood, Sector Leader, Oil and Gas 1050, 396 - 11th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2R 0C5 P: 403 264-0671 F: 403 264-0670 For more information go to: www.buildingtradesalberta.ca [email protected] www.hemmera.com

631914_Building.indd 1 Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 18/03/132013 • 79 6:16 PM ALBERTA313782_International_Ad.qxd CHAMBER 3/8/07 11:19 PMOF Page RESOURCES1 membership International Cooling Tower Inc. Doug Baron, President 3310 - 93 Street NW Edmonton, AB T6N 1C7 P: 780 469-4900 F: 780 469-5858 [email protected] www.icitower.com Japan Canada Oil Sands Limited Toshiyuki Hirata, President 2300, 639 - 5 Avenue SW An Alberta company providing evaporative cooling Calgary, AB T2P OM9 P: 403 264-9046 F: 403 264-9102 technologies, systems and services for industry [email protected] across North America www.jacos.com JDEL Associates Ltd. Terry Bachynski, LL.B., ICD.D, cooling tower engineering President & Chief Executive Officer 6111 - 91 Street NW Edmonton, AB T6E 6V6 new cooling towers P: 780 983-0870 F: 780 496-9049 [email protected] performance upgrades www.jdel.ca Jerat Enterprises Ltd. inspections & reconstruction Jerry Heck, President 94 Regal Court preventative maintenance Sherwood Park, AB T8A 5X8 P: 780 446-8196 F: 780 416-2034 replacement components & parts [email protected] JPi mine equipment & engineering consultants Tim Joseph, PhD., P.Eng., FCIM, President & Principal Engineer 45 Kingswood Drive St. Albert, AB T8N 5S2 P: 780 460-6606 F: 780 460-6607 [email protected] KBR Canada Ltd. Karl Roberts, Sr. Vice President, Canadian Operations PO Box 5588 Station South 3300 - 76 Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T6E 6P8 P: 780 450-7815 F: 780 490-3375 [email protected] www.kbr.com KCP Consulting Inc. Kjersti Powell, MA, President 17, 1225 Wanyandi Road NW Edmonton, AB T6M 2W7 P: 780 919-9609 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL COOLING TOWER Keyano College Kevin Nagel, President 3310 - 93 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6N 1C7 8115 Franklin Avenue Fort McMurray, AB T9H 2H7 Phone: (780) 469-4900 • Fax (780) 469-5858 P: 780 791-4850 F: 780 791-4841 [email protected] WATS: 1-800-661-3645 www.keyano.ca E-mail: [email protected] • Web: www.ictower.com Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd. Brian Rogers, P.Eng., Vice President, Alberta 500, 2618 Hopewell Place NE Calgary, AB T1Y 7J7 P: 403 274-3424 F: 403 274-5349 [email protected] www.klohn.com KMC Mining Dan Klemke, Chief Executive Officer Hangar 30, 60 Flight Line Road City Centre Airport Edmonton, AB T5G 3G2 P: 780 454-0664 F: 780 454-2495 [email protected] www.kmcmining.com Korite International Pierre Pare, President 3333 - 8 Street SE Calgary, AB T2G 3A4 P: 403 287-2026 F: 403 243-8028 [email protected] www.korite.com

626083_McLennan.indd80 • Alberta Chamber 1 of Resources Directory 2013 10/02/13 9:00 AM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Krupp Canada Inc. Ramsis Shehata, President The Hydraulic POWER House 405, 1177 - 11 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2R 1K9 Langley, BC Kamloops, BC P: 403 209-4444 F: 403 245-5625 19650 Telegraph Trail, V1M 3E5 1867 Versatile Drive, V1S 1C5 [email protected] Prince George, BC Calgary, AB www.krupp.ca FLUID POWER 1003 Eastern St, V2N 5R8 5520 53 Ave SE, T2C 4P2 Lafarge Canada Inc. Red Deer, AB Nisku, AB Saskatoon, SK 1200, 10655 Southport Road SW 3-7659 Edgar Industrial Dr, T4P 3R2 603 15 Ave, T9E 7M6 3053 Faithfull Ave, S7K 8B3 Calgary, AB T2W 4Y1 P: 403 723-7165 F: 403 278-2738 1-877-366-7226 • www.norcanﬂuidpower.com [email protected] www.lafargenorthamerica.com Service specialists for over 30 years: Our specialized hydraulic test stations, rebuilding equipment and machining facilities, combined with a large inventory, allow us to service or manufacture any hydraulic component Laricina Energy Ltd. your industry requires. Marla Van Gelder, Vice President, PROUD SUPPLIER TO THE RESOURCE INDUSTRY THROUGHOUT WESTERN CANADA Corporate Development 800, 425 - 1 Street SW Calgary, AB T2P 3L8 PTI Technologies Inc. Purification Through Innovation P: 403 750-0810 F: 403 263-0767 [email protected] including www.laricinaenergy.com PLUS+1 CONTROL SYSTEMS Ledcor Group of Companies AUTHORIZED SERVICE CENTRE AUTHORIZED SERVICE CENTRE Ron Nalewajek, P.Eng., Vice President - Business Relations 1760, 144 - 4th Avenue SW FluidConnectors Calgary, AB T2P 3N4 P: 604 699-2833 F: 403 263-1537 Factory Trained Sales and Service Technicians [email protected] COMPONENTS • SERVICE • SYSTEM DESIGN • MANUFACTURING • FIELD SUPPORT www.ledcor.com Lehigh Cement, a division of Lehigh Hanson Materials Limited Dan Thillman, P.Eng., 628677_Norcan.indd 1 06/03/13 3:13 PM Sales Manager, Alberta; Regional Manager, Supplementary Cementitious Materials 12640 Inland Way NW Edmonton, AB T5V 1K2 P: 780 420-2609 F: 780 420-2503 [email protected] www.lehighcement.com Liebherr-Canada Ltd. Barry Olsen, Branch Manager 208, 53016 Hwy 60 Acheson, AB T7X 5A7 P: 780 962-6088 F: 780 962-6799 [email protected] www.liebherr.com Lorne J. Ternes Professional Corporation Lorne Ternes, Owner - Barrister and Solicitor PMB 300, 3-11 Bellrose Drive St. Albert, AB T8N 3C9 P: 780 458-5118 [email protected] ONE TEAM McLennan Ross LLP Ron Kruhlak, Partner 600, 12220 Stony Plain Road NW ONE SOLUTION Edmonton, AB T5N 3Y4 P: 780 482-9226 F: 780 482-9100 [email protected] www.mross.com Martin Engineering Company Tim Patrick O’Harran Projects Business Manager 630252_AECON.indd 1 28/02/13 7:04 PM 1 Martin Place Neponset, Illinois 61345 P: 309 852-2384 F: 309 594-2432

620365_Eagle.indd 1 Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 13/03/132013 • 81 4:00 PM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Miller Thomson LLP William Kenny, QC, Partner 2700 Commerce Place 10155 - 102 Street NW Edmonton, AB T5J 4G8 P: 780 429-9784 F: 780 424-5866 Seeing where current [email protected] www.millerthomson.com decisions can result in Morgan Construction and Environmental Ltd. Peter Kiss, President future solutions. 702 Acheson Road Acheson, AB T7X 5A7 P: 780 960-6966 F: 780 960-4696 [email protected] www.mcel.ca NewGen Synergistics Inc. Jim Stevens, President 38 Farchant Way Douglas E. Crowther, [email protected], Calgary Vernon, BC V1H 1E3 P: 250 275-0874 F: 250 275-0873 Leanne C. Krawchuk, [email protected], Edmonton [email protected] www.newgengroup.net dentons.com/energy Newmont Mining Corporation Know the way. Don Doe, Senior Director, © 2013 Dentons. Dentons is an international legal practice Mine Engineering providing client services worldwide through its member firms 6363 South Fiddlers Green Circle and affiliates. Please see dentons.com for Legal Notices. Greenwood Village, CO 80111 P: 303 708-4599 [email protected] www.newmont.com Nexen Inc. 638221_Fraser.indd 1 19/04/13 2:09 AMBrian Humphreys, Vice President, Government Relations 2900, 801 - 7 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3P7 P: 403 699-4523 [email protected] www.nexeninc.com North American DOING THINGS RIGHT Construction Group Martin Ferron, President & CEO Zone 3 Acheson Industrial Area 2 - 53016 Hwy. 60 Acheson, AB T7X 5A7 P: 780 960-7171 F: 780 960-7103 [email protected] www.nacg.ca North West Redwater Partnership With a continual focus on safety, excellence and teamwork, Larry Vadori, Senior Vice President, KMC Mining provides cost effective, quality mining services Strategy and Development and expertise to our customer and the industry. By 2800 Sun Life Plaza combining tomorrow’s technology with today’s highly 140 - 4th Avenue SW skilled and dedicated workforce, KMC has maintained a Calgary, AB T2P 3N3 position as an industry leader for over 60 years. P: 403 451-4174 F: 403 451-4197 [email protected] www.nwrpartnership.com KMC MINING Address: Hangar 30, 60 Flight Line Road, Edmonton, AB, T5G 3G2 Northern Opportunities Facilitation Inc. Tel: (780) 454-0664 Fax: (780) 454-2495 Bill Hunter, President E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.kmcmining.com 1 Bennett Place St. Albert, AB T8N 2K2 P: 780 668-7265 F: 780 459-9164 [email protected] Northwest Hydraulic 626728_KMCMining.indd 1 13-01-29 10:42 PMConsultants Ltd. Eugene Yaremko, Principal 9819 - 12 Avenue SW Our Calgary Location Edmonton, AB T6X 0E3 2222-30th Avenue, NE P: 780 436-5868 F: 780 436-1645 Our Services Our Clients Phone: 403-263-2556 [email protected] Fax: 403-234-9033 www.nhcweb.com Mining Real Estate Norwest Corporation Environmental Agriculture & Agrifood Head Office Other Locations Steve Cameron, President 340 Maxwell Crescent Battleford, Hydrology Mining & Energy 2700, 411 - 1st Street SE Regina, Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Geotechnical Airport Authorities Calgary, AB T2G 4Y5 Permitting & Licensing Oil & Gas Phone: 306-721-7611 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan P: 403 232-4109 F: 403 263-4086 Project Management Transportation/Road/Rail/Air Fax: 306-721-8128 [email protected] Transportation - Rail - Roads - Air Industrial &Retail Lloydminster Office Edmonton Office www.norwestcorp.com Municipal Engineering Universities & Research #10 6309-43rd Street 4409-94th Street Planning & Land Development Municipal/Urban/Rural Phone: 780-872-5980 Phone: 780-432-6441 Risk Analysis International Fax: 780-872-5983 Fax: 780-432-6271 Rights of Way & Land Acquisition Development Agencies Corporate Website: www.clifton.ca

522156_Clifton.indd82 • Alberta 1 Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 4/6/11 3:35:41 PM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Martin Ignasiak 2500, 450 - 1st Street SW TransCanada Tower THE ONE THING Calgary, AB T2P 5H1 P: 403 260-7007 F: 403 260-7024 WE WON’T [email protected] www.osler.com TALK ABOUT P&H MinePro Services Canada Mohammed Ashraf, CFO Bay 10, 2256 - 29 Street NE Calgary, AB T1Y 7G4 P: 403 516-5301 [email protected] www.minepro.com We’re proud to tell you about the ingenuity of our PCL Constructors Inc. employees. We treat them like family and, in turn, they produce some of the ﬁ nest work our industry Ian Johnston, President and has ever seen. As for Voice’s commitment to the Chief Operating Officer, Heavy Industrial highest standards of service and safety, we’re proud 5410 - 99 Street NW to talk about that too. For us, it just makes sense that Edmonton, AB T6E 3P4 we get the job done right the ﬁ rst time, every time. P: 780 733-5500 F: 780 733-5075 [email protected] But when it comes to what we’re most proud of, we www.pcl.com don’t have much to say. In fact, we feel it’s best to let it do the talking. Penn West Exploration David Middleton, Executive Vice President, Voice Construction, Quality Speaks for Itself Operations Engineering and Peace River Oil Partnership 200, 207 - 9th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 1K3 P: 403 777-2500 [email protected] www.pennwest.com Peter Kiewit Infrastructure Co. 628934_Voice_Construction.indd 1 13-02-14 10:55 PM Barry Pihowich, Executive Vice President and Deputy Division Manager 11211 - 215th Street Edmonton, AB T5S 2B2 P: 780 447-3509 F: 780 447-3202 [email protected] www.kiewit.com Resource Industry Suppliers Association (RISA) 104, 14020 - 128 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5L 4M8 P: 780 489-5900 F: 780 489-6262 [email protected] www.resourcesuppliers.com Rhodey & Associates Inc. George Rhodey, Executive Vice President 97 Cranarch Common SE Calgary, AB T3M 1M1 P: 403 271-9689 [email protected] SAIT Polytechnic John Carlson, Associate Vice President Energy 1301 - 16th Avenue NW Calgary, AB T2M 0L4 P: 403 284-8292 F: 403 284-7171 [email protected] www.sait-training.com SGS Canada Inc. Greg Lore, Manager of Business Development 235 MacDonald Crescent Aecon_574748.indd 1 17/02/12 12:09 AM Fort McMurray, AB T9H 4B5 P: 780 791-6454 F: 780 791-1018 [email protected] www.ca.sgs.com Shell Canada Energy David Corriveau, P.Eng., Manager-Tailings and Water Focused Delivery, Upstream Americas, Heavy Oil PO Box 100, Station M 400 - 4th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 2H5 P: 403 691-3791 F: 403 384-8686 Explore the Possibilities [email protected] www.shell.ca See what our Oil & Gas Group can do for you at davis.ca Calgary 403.296.4470 | Edmonton 780.426.5330

626082_Davis.indd 1 11/05/13 3:07 PM Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 • 83 ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Sherritt Coal Al Brown, Senior General Manager, Engineering & Technical Services 1600, 10235 - 101 Street NW Edmonton, AB T5J 3G1 P: 780 420-5803 F: 780 420-5847 [email protected] www.sherritt.com Silvacom Group Tom Grabowski, President and CEO 3912 - 91 Street Edmonton, AB T6E 5K7 P: 780 462-3238 F: 780 462-4726 [email protected] www.silvacom.com Skills Canada (Alberta) Haley Schultz, Partnership Lead 700, 10242 - 105 Street Edmonton, AB T5J 3L5 P: 780 499-9841 F: 780 429-0009 [email protected] www.skillsalberta.com SMS Equipment Inc. Bruce Knight, President and CEO 53113, Range Road 263A, Zone 1 Acheson, AB T7X 5A5 P: 780 948-2200 F: 780 960-0561 [email protected] www.smsequip.com SNC-Lavalin Inc. Bill Bagshaw, Vice President, Business Development, Canada, 473115_Suncast.indd 1 3/26/10 11:02:48 AM Hydrocarbons & Chemicals 14th floor, 605 - 5th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3H5 P: 403 294-2579 F: 403 294-2777 [email protected] www.snclavalin.com For more information on our services, please contact: SNF Energy Services Scott Ramey 17519 - 107 Avenue EDMONTON OFFICE CALGARY OFFICE Edmonton, AB T5S 1E5 W.J. Kenny, Q.C. Kent R. Anderson, Q.C. P: 780 757-3562 Scott J. Hammel, Q.C. David J. Cichy, Q.C. [email protected] 2700 Commerce Place 700 9th Avenue Southwest Spartan Controls Ltd. 10155 - 102nd Street Suite 3000 David Spencer, Edmonton, AB T5J 4G8 Calgary, AB T2P 3V4 Manager - Upstream Services Tel: 780.429.1751 Tel: 403.298.2400 8403 - 51 Avenue NW Fax: 780.424.5866 Fax: 403.262.0007 Edmonton, AB T6E 5L9 P: 780 468-5463 F: 780 436-5136 SERVING THE OIL AND [email protected] GAS AND CONSTRUCTION www.spartancontrols.com www.millerthomson.com Stantec Consulting Ltd. INDUSTRIES OF ALBERTA Jamie Bagan, Vice President, Industrial 10160 - 112 Street NW Edmonton, AB T5K 2L6 P: 780 917-7000 F: 780 917-7330 [email protected]

VANCOUVER CALGARY EDMONTON SASKATOON REGINA LONDON www.stantec.com KITCHENER-WATERLOO GUELPH TORONTO MARKHAM MONTRÉAL Statoil Canada Ltd. Lorne Cannon, Vice President Field Development 3600, 308 - 4th Avenue SW 635923_Miller.indd 1 06/04/13 11:37 AMCalgary, AB T2P 0H7 P: 403 269-0421 F: 403 234-0103 [email protected] www.statoil.com STATS Group International Ltd. Stephen Rawlinson, General Manager 5303 - 82 Avenue Edmonton, AB T6B 2J6 P: 780 462-0221 F: 780 462-0230 [email protected]

626859_Crowne.indd84 • Alberta 1Chamber of Resources Directory 2013 31/01/13 11:45 PM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Sterling Crane T.W. (Ted) Melnyk, Director, Business Development PO Box 8610, Station South 2440 - 76 Avenue Edmonton, AB T6E 6R2 P: 780 440-4434 F: 780 440-1951 [email protected] www.sterlingcrane.ca Stewart, Weir & Co. Ltd. Barry Bleay, Manager, Business Development & Marketing 300, 926 - 5th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 0N7 P: 403 264-2585 [email protected] www.swg.ca Suncor Energy Inc. Kris Smith, Senior Vice President, Supply, Trading and Corporate Development PO Box 2844 150 - 6th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3E3 P: 403 296-7040 F: 403 724-3466 [email protected] www.suncor.com Sureway Construction Management Ltd. Reg Belyea, P.Eng, BDO, Construction Manager 7331 - 18 Street Edmonton, AB T6P 1P9 P: 780 486-6325 F: 780 440-1092 [email protected] 576528_Neegan.indd 1 2/28/12 7:59:13 PM www.surewaygroup.ca Syncrude Canada Ltd. Peter Read, Vice President, Strategic Planning PO Bag 4009 M.D. 0050 Fort McMurray, AB T9H 3L2 P: 780 790-5055 F: 780 790-4930 Isuzu Diesel Authorized Distributor • Yanmar Diesel Authorized Distributor [email protected] Shindaiwa Generators Authorized Distributor • Diesel Engines 5hp to 550hp www.syncrude.ca Generator Sets 4kW to 400 kW Talisman Energy Inc. Rob Gibb, Manager Government and Public Affairs Gas Monetization, LNG Development 2000, 888 - 3rd Street SW Calgary, AB T2P 5C5 P: 403 237-1108 F: 403 724-1741 [email protected] Mobile Drill Authorized Distributor www.talisman-energy.com Target Products Ltd. Drills • Auger • Tooling Merv Rogan, P.Geol., CIM, P.Mgr., Marketing Manager 9503 - 87 Avenue SALES • PARTS Morinville, AB T8R 1K6 SERVICE P: 780 939-3033 F: 780 939-3044 [email protected] Edmonton (Acheson Industrial Park) Calgary www.targetproducts.com 208 Walker Crescent, Acheson, AB, T7X 5A4 8211 31st Street SE, T2C 1H9 Teck Resources Limited Phone: 780.960.5560 Phone: 403.261.0601 Ray Reipas, Senior Vice President, Energy Fax: 780.960.5568 Fax: 403.263.3702 1000, 205 - 9th Avenue SE Calgary, AB T2G 0R3 P: 403 767-8701 F: 403 265-8794 [email protected] 563590_Westquip.indd 1 1/5/12 3:32:57 PM www.teck.com Terracon Geotechnique Ltd. Sarah List, P.Eng., Vice President, Operations 800, 734 - 7 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3P8 P: 403 266-1150 F: 403 233-0841 > Coal exploration and > Flagship coal project is [email protected] www.terracon.ca development company the Vista Coal Project The Oil Sands Developers Group > Approximately 55,000 hectares > Potential to be one of the Ken Chapman, Executive Director 617, 8600 Franklin Avenue of coal exploration leases largest export thermal coal Fort McMurray, AB T9H 4G8 mines in North America P: 780 790-1999 F: 780 790-1971 > Located within the Hinton region [email protected] of Alberta, Canada www.oilsandsdevelopers.ca www.coalspur.com

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621009_Harvest.indd 1 3/20/13 1:45 PM 571920_Crossroads.indd86 • Alberta Chamber 1 of Resources Directory 2013 1/27/12 12:13:24 AM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Thurber Engineering Ltd. Campbell Chow, M. Eng., P. Eng., Principal 200, 9636 - 51 Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T6E 6A5 P: 780 438-1460 F: 780 437-7125 [email protected] www.thurber.ca Titanium Corporation Inc. Kevin Moran, Ph.D., P.Eng., Vice President, Process Operations Striving for less… 1400 Baker Centre 10025 - 106 Street NW After more than 50 years of research, pilot work and Edmonton, AB T5J 1G4 commercial production in the oil sands, we’re still striving P: 780 760-0512 F: 780 760-0151 [email protected] for less… less greenhouse-gas emissions, that is. We are www.titaniumcorporation.com relentless in our pursuit of technologies that will help us TOLKO Industries Ltd. Allan Bell, Woodlands Manager recover more bitumen while emitting less greenhouse gases. Northwest Regional Manager Box 630 At Cold Lake, technologies we’re implementing include using Slave Lake, AB T0G 2A0 P: 780 805-3844 F: 780 805-3838 hydrocarbon solvents to assist and one day even replace the [email protected] www.tolko.com steam we inject to produce bitumen. TOTAL E&P Canada Limited And our Kearl Oil Sands Project will be the first oil-sands Gauthier Demeulenaere, Vice President, Technology and Development Division mining operation that does not require an upgrader to make 2900, 240 - 4th Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 4H4 a saleable crude oil. Processing bitumen once rather than P: 403 539-2965 F: 403 571-7595 twice results in lower greenhouse-gas emissions. [email protected] www.total-ep-canada.com Our relentless pursuit of innovation will continue – TransAlta Corporation Hugo Shaw, Executive because we won’t settle for anything less than less. Vice President, Operations PO Box 1900 Station M Read about these and other technologies at www.imperialoil.ca 110 - 12 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 2M1 P: 403 267-4732 [email protected] www.transalta.com TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. Dean Cowling, Vice President, Project Development and Alberta Oil PO Box 1000, Station M 450 - 1 Street SW Calgary, AB T2P 5H1 P: 403 920-6504 F: 403 920-2397 [email protected] www.transcanada.com Tuccaro Inc., Group of Companies Dave Tuccaro, President and CEO Box 5570 Fort McMurray, AB T9H 3G5 P: 780 791-9386 F: 780 791-9991 [email protected] www.tuccaroinc.com University of Alberta - Alberta School of Business Mike Percy, Professor and Dean Emeritus 3-30L Business Edmonton, AB T6G 2R6 P: 780 492-7644 F: 780 492-2510 632118_Imperial.indd 1 18/03/13 6:37 PM [email protected] www.business.ualberta.ca University of Alberta - AME BC thanks the over 7,800 Faculty of Engineering David Lynch, Dean of Engineering participants at Roundup 2013. E6-050 Engineering Teaching & Learning Complex Edmonton, AB T6G 2V4 P: 780 492-3596 F: 780 492-3973 We look forward to seeing [email protected] everyone at Roundup 2014. www.engineering.ualberta.ca URS Flint Joel Jarding, Senior Vice President, January 27 – 30, 2014 Business Development The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver 700, 300 - 5 Avenue SW Calgary, AB T2P 3C4 P: 403 218-7146 F: 403 265-4737 [email protected] www.amebc.ca/roundup www.ursflint.com

632237_Association.indd 1 Alberta Chamber of Resources Directory 18/03/132013 • 87 6:51 PM ALBERTA CHAMBER OF RESOURCES membership Valtus Imagery Services Waiward Steel Fabricators Ltd. Westquip Diesel Sales (Alta) Ltd. Tammy Peterson, Business Manager Donald J. Oborowsky, President and Gene Dumont, Manager 212, 5438 - 11 Street NE Chief Executive Officer 208, 26229 TWP RD 531A Calgary, AB T2E 7E9 10030 - 34 Street NW Acheson, AB T7X 5A4 P: 403 539-9543 F: 403 295-2444 Edmonton, AB T6B 2Y5 P: 780 960-5560 F: 780 960-5568 [email protected] P: 780 469-1258 F: 780 485-4267 [email protected] www.valtus.com [email protected] www.westquip.ca www.waiward.com Voice Construction Ltd. Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. Howard Ratti, Chairman and Wajax Industries Fred Dzida, Director, Canadian Timberlands Chief Executive Officer John Fitzpatrick, General Manager 201, 2920 Calgary Trail NW 7545 - 52 Street NW Mining Division Edmonton, AB T6J 2G8 Edmonton, AB T6B 2G2 30, 26316 Twp. 531A P: 250 573-5221 F: 780 733-4239 P: 780 469-1351 F: 780 466-9378 Acheson, AB T7X 5A3 [email protected] [email protected] P: 780 948-5400 F: 780 948-5430 www.weyerhaeuser.com www.voiceconst.com [email protected] www.wajax.ca Willowglen Systems Inc. Gail Powley, Vice President, Corporate Development 8522 Davies Road NW Edmonton, AB T6E 4Y5 P: 780 465-1530 F: 780 465-0130 [email protected] www.willowglensystems.com Wirtanen Family Holdings Ltd. Richard Wirtanen Box 4401 Coleman, AB Edmonton, AB T6E 4T5 P: 780 435-1258 F: 780 437-2658 [email protected] www.wirtanenelectric.ca WorleyParsons Canada Services Ltd. Pavilion Lake, BC Ray Bevan, Vice President, Business Development 120, 5008 - 86th Street NW Edmonton, AB T6E 5S2 P: 780 440-5471 [email protected] Faulkner, MB www.worleyparsons.com

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Acklands - Grainger...... 32 CBRE Limited...... 70 Aecon Industrial Western...... 83 CKR Global...... 4 AECON Mining...... 81 ClearStream Corporate...... Inside Front Cover Ainsworth Engineered Canada LP...... 89 Clifton and Associates Ltd...... 82 Alberta Blue Cross...... Outside Back Cover CN-Canadian National...... 30 Alberta Innovates - Bio Solutions...... 14 Coalspur Mines Ltd...... 85 Alberta Innovates - Energy and Environment Solutions...... 14 Crossroads C & I Distributors Inc...... 86 Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures (AITF)...... 14 Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe...... 84 Alberta Mine Safety Assoc...... 75 Davis & Company L.L.P...... 83 Alberta’s Industrial Heartland...... 65 Dentons Canada LLP...... 82 APEGA...... 27 Diversified Transportation Ltd./ Pacific Western Group...... 50 Association for Mineral Exploration BC...... 87 Eagle Mapping Ltd...... 81 Atco Ltd...... 17 EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd...... 76 Baldwin Filters...... 76 Emeco Canada Limited...... 78 Bird Construction Company...... 74 Enbridge Pipelines Inc...... 40 Brandt Tractor Ltd...... 16 Esak Consulting Limited...... 90 Breaker Technology, Inc. (BTI)...... 62 Finning (Canada)...... 20 Building Trades of Alberta...... 79 Flint Energy Services...... 90 Fluor Canada Ltd...... 43 Canada Culvert...... 72 GIW Industries, Inc...... 86 Cando Contracting...... 70 Graham Group...... 76 Cannamm Occupational Testing Services...... 24 Grande Cache Coal Corporation...... 42 Careers: The Next Generation Foundation...... 75 Carmacks Enterprises Ltd...... 25 continued on page 90

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