Pembina Pipeline Corp T.PPL

RE:RE:Propane Terminal

[dileas48s]

thanks for the great update!

sclarda wrote: hoffbag  wrote

Has anyone received an update on this?  Was Q1 start.

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I live in Prince Rupert aprox 10 kilometres from the project site.  A couple weeks ago i drove by the site visible from the highway and two of the three storage tanks which had scaffolding and tarps all over them are now painted white  and the tarps and scafold are gone. The third one looks like it still needs painting. 

In talking to a person who does inspections at the site he says they had some problems with poor weather and high winds blowing off tarps and slowing down the work this last winter. From what i remember he told me is that the project is coming along and should be nearing completion by the first quarter which is only a month or so away. 

For those that dont know Prince Rupert gets aprox.  around 96 inchs of rain per year and also being on the open Pacific ocean can get rain and windstorms with winds over 100 kilometres per hour that sometimes last for days on end

The propane plant project is on Watson Island which used to be the site of a Pulp Mill.  The city of Prince Rupert ended up owning the island many years after the Pulp mill shut down and was sold to a few different owners who never managed to open it again. The City leased 13% of the island to Pembina and  payed to tear down the Pulp mill and Pembina built their plant in front of where the old Pulp mill site was.  Pembina used the parking lot for the old Pulp mill to set up their construction camp for their workers. The camp is only a few hundred feet from the project site. 

The Pulp mill site contained a wharf that was used to load Pulp.  Pembina has upgraded the dock, torn down the old pulp sheds and built a piping system from the storage tanks that they built across the railway and to the dock where they will load the ships. The railway that will be used to ship in the propane cars runs right behind the dock and in front of the old pulp mill site.

The wharf sits at the end of porpoise harbour.  It is a small harbour that Port Edward borders. The railway which goes through the Pulp mill site circles around the dead end of Porpoise harbour past the Pulp mill site onto Ridley island where Alta gas has its propane project. Alta gas shares a dock with the coal terminal on Ridley island.  Ridley island is basically what creates Porpoise harbour and creates a nice breakwater from the open Pacific ocean. The entrance to Porpoise harbour is quite narrow and shallow at low tide and large freighters can not enter the harbour.  If i remember correctly the Pulp ships that loaded in the harbour had to wait until high tide to enter the harbour.