ENVIRONMENT
Wapose Medical Services
WAPOSE Medical Services Inc. is a progressive medical services
company whose goal is to work pro-actively with a variety of
industries such as drilling, pipelines, construction,
petro-chemical and forestry to provide quality care to the sick and
injured.
WAPOSE Medical Services provides Emergency Medical
Responders, Emergency Medical Technicians, Nurses and
Paramedics who are registered by the province of Alberta in their
respective disciplines. This wide range of staff allows us to meet
our client’s needs, whatever they may be. WAPOSE ensures that
all employees are continually upgrading and updating their skills
through continuing education programs. In conjunction with
these programs, our Medical Director’s interface with our
procedures helps us to maintain such a high standard of care.
Fort McMurray Saskatchewan
Location
780-714-6654 • 1-866-715-4456 PO Box 37
Punnichy, SK S0A 3C0
www.waposemedical.ca Toll Free:
waposeems@shaw.ca 1-877-715-4456 Fax: 306-835-2437
British Columbia
Location
1487 Albatross Ave
Kitimat, BC V8C 1P9
Toll Free:
1-866-715-4456
Fax: 250-632-8479
TEG says “the process would convert a
hazardous waste to a non-hazardous
end product.”
While drill-cuttings recycling and
composting programs may prove successful, Simon Dyer of the Pembina
Institute would like to see a bigger
environmental push from oilsands
companies.
“I certainly support the recycling of
drill cuttings,” the senior policy analyst
says, “but there are larger issues that
affect boreal forests and wildlife.”
Dyer would like to see more thorough reforesting of existing disturbances. “We’re approaching the point
of no return already. We need to go
beyond simply what is required in
terms of regulations in our land reclamation efforts.”
Foster Creek and MacKay River are
both currently expanding production
capacity, which will mean more drilling,
more drilling fluid, and more drill cuttings to use. At EnCana’s site, average
production in the second quarter of
2006 was 33,000 barrels per day, but
that is set to change by year-end.
“We now expect Foster Creek to
exit the year at 50,000 barrels per day
and grow to 60,000 barrels per day
during the second quarter of 2007,”
says Randy Eresman, EnCana’s president and chief executive officer.
The company’s board of directors
approved two new expansion projects
at Foster Creek during the second
quarter. Each expansion will boost production by 30,000 barrels per day, with
the first phase scheduled for completion in late 2008 and the second in
late 2009. The additions will boost
total production to 120,000 barrels per
day at completion.
Eresman has said that Foster Creek,
the first commercial oilsands operation
to use SAGD technology, has the
potential to grow to 150,000 barrels
per day.
At MacKay River, Petro-Canada is
currently producing up to 30,000 barrels per day but has applied to increase
production to 70,000 barrels per day.
Sue MacKenzie, Petro-Canada’s general manager of in situ, says regulatory
and internal approval is expected within 6 to 12 months.
