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'Reaper of death': scientists discover new dinosaur species related to T rex
The Guardian   10 February 2020   Canada  
Photograph: Julius Csotonyi/The University of Calgary and Ro/AFP via Getty Images
<p>Scientists in Canada have announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur closely related to Tyrannosaurus rex that strode the plain of North America about 80m years ago. Thanatotheristes degrootorum – Greek for “reaper of death” – is thought to be ...
Stunning dinosaur skull discovery turns paleontologists' assumptions upside down
Fox News   26 November 2019   Canada  
Hannah's skull, seen from all sides. (Credit: Scott Persons)
<p>A newly discovered dinosaur skull has shaken paleontologists' assumptions to the core, throwing a wrench into the idea that all dinosaurs had symmetrical faces.<br />The fossilized skull of the Styracosaurus was unearthed and researchers were surprised ...
'Wrecked forever': Unique geological formation near Yellowknife almost gone
CBC News   01 October 2019   Canada   Yellowknife  
NWT Archives/Terry Foster fonds
<p>The area, described as recently as 2004 in a Yellowknifer newspaper article as "a wide open area full of dunes, ponds and weathered rocks," is no longer anything of the sort.<br />Instead, it's a flattened-out and largely hard-packed surface. There are ...
Ville-Marie and Viger: Downtown tunnels are getting a makeover
Montreal Gazette   05 September 2019   Canada   Montreal  
Massive ventilation shafts provide air to the tunnel and pump out air pollution from the tunnel
<p>They handle 118,000 vehicles per day, are surrounded by an ancient river and can pump out the equivalent of two Olympic-sized swimming pools of water daily.<br />The tunnels that run under the city&rsquo;s downtown core, next to m&eacute;tro stations, pedestrian ...
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Mining company working with environmentalists to clean up old mining sites
CBC News   20 February 2018   Canada   British Columbia  
This aerial shot shows the tailings pile that Margaux hopes will bring them economic benefit even as it helps clean it up. (Nick Diamond/provided)
<p>Calgary-based mining company Margaux Resources has announced a plan to clean up old tailings sites by using new mining technologies to extract the remaining minerals.</p> <p>Margaux has partnered with the Salmo Watershed Sreamkeepers Society &mdash; a non-profit ...
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Emergency operation centre opened in Nanaimo after flooding, landslide
CBC News   29 January 2018   Canada   Vancouver Island  
A massive hole on Melrose Road in Whiskey Creek, a community located north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. (Oliver Watson)
<p>An emergency operation centre has opened in the Regional District of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island after a landslide occurred in Lantzville and flooding hit Parksville and Whiskey Creek.</p> <p>On Sunday night Nanaimo Search and Rescue responded to several ...
On December 31, centenary Ontario gold mine shut down
MINING.com   01 January 2018   Canada   Ontario  
The beginning of Porcupine operations in Timmins. Photo by Goldcorp.
<p>December 31, 2017 marked the end of an era for one of Canada's oldest and most prolific gold mines.</p> <p>After 107 years of operations, Porcupine Gold Mines&rsquo; Dome underground mine in Timmins, Ontario, ceased operations due to aging infrastructure, ...
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Open-pit gold mine close to production start
Northern Ontario Business   07 September 2017   Canada   Ontario  
New Gold's Rainy River open-pit mine, northwest of Fort Frances
<p>The start-up of New Gold&rsquo;s Rainy River gold mine in northwestern Ontario is only weeks away.</p> <p>The Toronto-based mid-tier miner is putting the finishing touches on the $515 million spent this year to carve out the open pit, dig the tailings area, ...
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Carillion lands £120m Canadian power contract
The construction index   09 December 2016   Canada   Americas  
Power masts setting up (source: The Construction Index)
<p>Carillion Canada subsidiary Rokstad has been named as the preferred bidder for a high-voltage transmission line project worth approximately &pound;120m.</p> <p>Rokstad was acquired by Carillion in 2014.</p> <p>The contract for Manitoba Hydro involves the ...
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Alberta signs $1.42bn ring-road contract
The construction index   27 September 2016   Canada   Americas  
Southwest Calgary Ring Road
<p>The Canadian province of Alberta has signed a 35-year design-build-finance-operate (DBFO) contract for the Southwest Calgary Ring Road.</p> <p>The work will be carried out by the Mountain View Partners consortium, which includes contractors Graham, Kiewit ...
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