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...Canada's lower-wage labor, devalued dollar and abundance of cheap electric power. Harnessing the remote Saguenay River, Aluminium cut into the trackless wilds of northern Quebec to build the dams that now power the smelter at Arvida (a contraction of Arthur Vining Davis). For the still bigger Kitimat power project in British Columbia, it carved a ten-mile tunnel into a mountain, created a waterfall 16 times as high as Niagara Falls and built a smelter with an awesome annual capacity of 300,000 tons...
...million aluminum project at Kitimat, B.C. (capacity: 1 billion Ibs. a year) was built by the U.S.-owned Aluminum Co. of Canada...
...great new developments for Canada's petroleum industry lay right ahead: a $350 million pipeline eastward and a $120 million line southward to carry natural gas to Eastern Canada and the Pacific Northwest. In British Columbia, the Aluminum Co. of Canada decided that the new $300 million Kitimat plant was already outgrown and launched a $200 million expansion...
Model City. Now that the power plant is operating, the work center of the Alcan project will shift from the mountainous interior to the coast town of Kitimat. Already the town is bustling and crowded. Workers live in huts, or in a dormitory improvised from the old stern-wheeler Delta King, which used to ply the tourist trade out of San Francisco. Alcan has elaborate plans for a model city (600 houses by next spring), with schools, a shopping center, streets and parkways where now there is only bush and muskeg. The plans are based on the confident expectation that...
...annual development targets between 1955 and 1962. Furthermore. in the case of such failure. Lindsley will lose his license to the water rights, as well as the full value of work done up to that time. Unlike an earlier deal worked out with Aluminum Co. of Canada for its Kitimat project (see THE HEMISPHERE), Lindsley's agreement calls for no tax concessions, no special rates for water used, and he must clear all land to be flooded...