FortisBC Plans Major Expansion of Tilbury LNC Facility to Improve Gas System Resiliency and Meet Demand By Tina Costanza An expansion to increase storage and meet rising demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is in the works at FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG facility in Delta, B.C. The Tilbury Phase 2 LNG Expansion project [...]
Environmental Consulting Firm Embraces Unique Work By Tina Costanza PGL Environmental Consultants is good at projects “with hair on them.” As Will Gaherty, the company’s President and Senior Environmental Consultant, says, “We tend to be best at work that is a little bit different.” That work lies in urban centres as well [...]
The Secret to AULT Equipment's Success: Accessibility and Speedy Service By Tina Costanza Call Ault Equipment (“AULT”) and you’ll get a hold of a real person. Depending on which number you dialed, you may get the personal cell of Jackson Ault, the owner. “We don’t use a lot of landlines. Everybody’s on [...]
New Wastewater Treatment Facility Opens Town To Growth By Tina Costanza The Town of Lumsden, Saskatchewan, will no longer be forced to restrict its population growth, now that a new wastewater treatment facility is replacing an aging sewage lagoon system that’s unable to expand. The new facility, which could meet the needs [...]
Upgrade and Modernization Transformers Wastewater Into Clean Water By Tina Costanza If there’s one thing the citizens of Dieppe, Moncton and Riverview are passionate about, it’s the Petitcodiac River that flows through that tri-community in New Brunswick. It’s where residents and visitors enjoy recreational activities, such as surfing the tidal bore, boating [...]
Growth Continues For Abbotsford's 25th Anniversary By Tina Costanza The City of Abbotsford, British Columbia, has a lot to celebrate for its 25th anniversary this year. In the quarter of a century since the amalgamation of the districts of Matsqui and Abbotsford to form the City of Abbotsford, the latter has experienced [...]
The Rise and Growth of The Woman Entrepreneur Canadian women-owned businesses are on the cusp of something great. We’re seeing an increased number of women starting their entrepreneurial journey or taking their businesses to the next level. This continuing rise in women-owned businesses, in numbers, size and industry categories, has brought along [...]
By Tina Costanza More than half of business executives who reported a data breach cited the main cause as human error by employees, Shred-it’s 2019 Data Protection Report suggests. Now, in this period of COVID-19, in which many employees are working remotely, organizations are potentially more susceptible to events such as data breaches and [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for organizations to be agile, collaborative and responsive, and to embrace new ways of working, says Alison Pozzobon, Head of Corporate Communications and Community Partnerships at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Canada. The global healthcare company has responded to that need by establishing four pillars for itself: charitable donations to [...]
By Anna Guy The cannabis market is Canada, still in its early stages as a legal entity, is already showing great growth. When the federal government passed the Cannabis Act in October 2018, Canadians were finally able to legally access recreational and medicinal cannabis. The “second wave” of legalization, which happened a [...]