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Oil Patch Bits Colville expands service across North Slope, offshore
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska recently approved the expansion of Colville’s solid waste service area across the North Slope, stretching from the eastern border of ANWR westward to Point Hope and extending offshore to the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. With the expansion Colville holds not only the largest certificated service area of any regulated utility in Alaska, but also one of the largest service territories of any regulated utility in the United States. The company’s ultimate goal for the future is “zero landfill disposal,” said Colville President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Helmericks. “We already supply a waste-to-energy plant in Spokane with valuable resources sorted and recycled from the solid waste stream. That material would have otherwise been buried, reducing the useful life of the NSB’s Oxbow Landfill by many years.” Colville’s solid waste utility business was founded in 1981 by Mark’s father, Bud Helmericks. The company maintains a fleet of specialized equipment, including vehicles, bear-proof dumpsters and trailers to move solid waste across northern Alaska’s seasonal ice roads and year-round gravel roads.
Northern Air Cargo nominated for freedom award Northern Air Cargo said May 29 that it has been nominated for the prestigious Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, the United States’ highest recognition given to American employers of National Guard or Reserve members for their exceptional support above the requirements of federal law. The 2008 recipients will be announced midsummer and honored in Washington, D.C. at the 13th annual ceremony on Sept. 18. To learn more visit www.esgr.mil
ENSR wins multi-year Corps cleanup contract ENSR was recently awarded a $4.5 million, three-year U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract to perform environmental consulting engineering services under the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, or HTRW, program at multiple locations in Alaska. ENSR, part of AECOM, is a leading global environmental management firm. The Corps’ HTRW program covers planning and design for cleanup of unsafe, hazardous, toxic, and radiological waste and debris as part of a broader Corps environmental program designed to clean up formerly-used defense sites. ENSR, which has worked with the Corps’ Alaska District since 1994, will provide site investigation, remedial investigation and feasibility studies, hazard and risk assessments, and will ultimately develop the most appropriate, cost-effective remedial action plans, said ENSR Alaska operations manager Chris Humphrey, P.E.. For more information about ENSR go to www.ensr.aecom.com.
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