Word: kitimat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Philip watched, the $275 million Kitimat project,* which includes the world's biggest aluminum factory and the biggest power development ever built by private enterprise, went into operation for the first time. Power from a mountain generating station was cabled 50 miles overland to a new aluminum smelter on the site of the old Indian village of Kitimat. The alumina ore came in Alcan freighters from Jamaica through the Panama Canal to Kitimat's newly dredged harbor. In the Kitimat smelter, the power processed the alumina into the first 4O-lb. ingot of Kitimat aluminum...
...Made Niagara. Three years, the labor of 10,000 men and the greatest force of construction machinery ever assembled in peacetime went into the building of Kitimat. The work was spread over an area bigger than the state of Massachusetts. Deep in the Canadian Rockies, 400 miles north of Vancouver, Alcan harnessed a chain of mountain lakes and eastward-flowing rivers by throwing one of the world's biggest dams - a 317-ft. dike of rock and clay-across a canyon to create a great reservoir in the hills. Then Alcan drillers drove a ten-mile tunnel through...
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...