Tag: Rio Tinto Alcan

Rio Tinto Alcan Kitimat Modernization Project

Kitimat Modernization Project aluminum smelter upgrade in black and white

The sun sets over the Rio Tinto Alcan Kitimat Modernization Project construction site March 4, 2014. (Robin Rowland) Updated (below) with the arrival of the Delta Spirit Lodge. On March 4, 2014,  Rio Tinto Alcan organized the first media tour of the $3.3 billion  construction project since the announcement in December 2011 that the project […]

International Peace Day contingent

Canada Day Parade in Kitimat, July 1, 2012

The Royal Canadian Legion and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police lead the Canada Day parade in Kitimat, BC, July 1, 2012. (Robin Rowland) The Kitimat Marine Rescue Society’s Snowflake Responder in the Canada Day Parade. (Robin Rowland) Bechtel, which is building the Rio Tinto Alcan Kitimat Modernization Project had a small fleet of golf carts […]

The best laid plans lead to the forest moon of Endor

Photography is often affected by the weather.  A change in the weather can mean as Robbie Burns wrote in 1785, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men gang aft agley,” or to quote a more contemporary author, some guy called Murphy, “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” So it was on Saturday night.  […]