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LATITUDE
FORT HILL PARTNERS HOLD GRAND OPENING OF MUCH-DELAYED OIL SANDS MINE
including falling oil prices, increased development costs, and the 2016 Fort McMurray fire—caused numerous delays. First oil was finally seen in January of this year and since then production at the open- pit, truck-and-shovel mine has increased steadily. After achieving
A long-awaited oil sands mine the size of Cleveland, Ohio, continued to ramp up production in northern Alberta. But for how long? Just as The PEG was being completed, the province announced a production
cap to address a massive price differential in Alberta. Suncor Energy, an APEGA permit holder, got the go-ahead to begin mine construction in 2002, but a long string of events—
continuous production in the fall, Suncor and its partners in the project, Total E&P Canada Ltd. and Teck Resources Ltd., held a grand opening. The mine was expected to reach 90 per cent capacity by year end. At full capacity, it will produce 194,000 barrels per day. LONG-AWAITED MINE GETS TO WORK The Fort Hills ore preparation plant accepts raw bitumen and prepares it for further processing. Shown here are sizer conveyors and the surge bin. -photo courtesy Suncor Energy Inc.
CALGARY CRASH SITES GET THEIR OWN MAP
using city statistics about car crashes. Saadiq Mohiuddin, P.Eng., dedicated his spare time to digging through the city’s open data portal. There, he found stats on 10,000 crashes that occurred between December 2016 and September 2018. To visualize the information for his fellow citi- zens, he used machine learning to create an inter- active map that identifies where crashes occurred, how often they occurred, and when they occurred (time of day, day of week). You can find Mr. Mohiuddin’s map on his blog.
Icy corners, hidden intersections, traffic bottlenecks, and other hazards—these result in fender-benders and much more serious accidents in a lot of the cities we drive. All it takes is a near-miss on your morning commute to remind you that it’s not always obvious where the biggest danger zones lie. To make driving safer, a Calgary Transit project engineer has mapped out the city’s riskiest spots,
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