Tag: Silja Festival

helcopter fights wildfire

Smoke from wildfire blankets Kitimat

July 18, 2014

  Updates with cause,  Friday morning situation A wildfire broke out in the Strawberry Meadows neighborhood, about two kilometres south of Kitimat, around 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 17, 2014. Kitimat Fire and Rescue quickly responded to the call, setting up a command post at the back of the Oviatt  Contracting construction yard which was […]

Rio Tinto Alcan Kitimat Modernization Project

Kitimat Modernization Project aluminum smelter upgrade in black and white

March 8, 2014

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 […]