RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: This is a good direction for ACINDY__You truly are amazing with how you view the world around!!!!!
I think that you would fit in VERY well in Ottawa right now with the rest of the like minded crew!!!!!
LOL
You state__without any source reference__that the Susan Lake gravel pit area is 9400 acres__Do you not realize that every 640 acres STILL is exactly one square mile??????__So you are suggesting that the total area is almost 15 square miles!!!!!!
WOW
And if this actually were even remotely correct__Do you want to hear how much it would cost to reclaim ALL that area?__All paid for from the ABM till down the road.
You also throw out that there are 15 to 20 years of gravel reserves left in the Susan Lake pit!!!!!!!
WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS?????????????
IF this were actually the case then surely this company make or break information would have been in the recent ABM/AMI Information Circular____FOR SURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT THERE WAS NO MENTION OF 15 TO 20 YEARS NOR EVEN ANY GRAVEL RESERVE DATA IN THE INFORMATION CIRCULAR.
To REPEAT__THIS is what was actually stated in the Information Circular___So CINDY, let us all know WHERE you got your data from???????
Currently, there are two major sources of aggregates in the region, the Poplar Creek Gravel Pit and the Susan Lake Gravel Pit, both managed by AMI. With the exception of sand, Poplar Creek is running out of gravel. AMI estimates that the gravel in this pit will be depleted by the end of 2008.
Management of AMI estimates the gravel in the Susan Lake Gravel Pit will last for several more years at current rates of consumption.
Studies by OSDG and the Government of Alberta indicate that currently known sources of sand and gravel are insufficient to meet the long-term growth requirements of the oilsands industry. In addition, oilsands companies have been actively drilling their sites to establish their oilsands reserves. As a result of these drilling activities, they have discovered new sand and gravel deposits.
Although additional deposits have been found recently, management of AMI believes they are small deposits that are inadequate to assure a long-lived supply for the construction and operation of oilsands mining and in-situ projects.