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EPS climbs aboard the school bus By Jordan Baker editor@estevanmercury.ca
Safety is a growing priority for the Estevan Police Service, and when it comes to the safety of students going to and from school, they don’t want drivers taking any more chances. Beginning this week there will be a police officer riding random school buses with the rest of the students. That officer will be educating students about school bus safety while they monitor driving habits of morning and afternoon commuters around them. If the officer sees a driver violating the strict rules of the road that revolve around school buses, they will radio to nearby officers driving an unmarked police car who will then perform a traffic stop. What EPS is dubbing the Yellow and Blue Program, which it is carrying out in conjunction with the South East Cornerstone School Division, was designed to reverse the trend the police have been seeing in which Estevan drivers are ignoring the stop signals of school buses. EPS Chief Paul Ladouceur said the police didn’t initially see problems with drivers when the school year started, but after seeing a spike in the numbers of complaints, he said they had to look at someway of curbing that cycle. “This is a bit of a unique program and a different approach that covers a number of things,” said Ladouceur. “It educates the public that certainly it isn’t going to be tolerated. It engages students along with police because
The Estevan Police Service is teaming up with the South East Cornerstone School Division to begin the Yellow and Blue Program. Starting Tuesday, an EPS constable will be riding a random school bus with students to help combat motorists who ignore the stop signs when the bus is stopped. we’re going to use our school resource officers as the people who are on the bus. It’s two-fold, because they can be educating especially the younger students on various safety issues, while also be watching for people not abiding
by the bus rules and violating the law.” Ladouceur noted the City of Estevan very recently reclassified reduced speed zones around schools and parks → A2 Complaints
Shand test plant will open even more doors By Norm Park normpark@estevanmercury.ca
The test facility at Shand Power Station should be nearly completed by the end of the first quarter of 2015 according to one of the principal players in the project. Mike Monea, president of carbon capture and storage initiatives for SaskPower, said the $70 million addition to the power generating plant will allow the global community an opportunity to test all types of post-combustion noxious gas recovery systems within a commercial power station. Although the experiments won’t be commercial sized themselves, the opportunity to use real life and real case scenarios offered at Shand will prove to be invaluable. The fact that the world’s first commercial sized carbon capture plant is just down the road, will be a positive addition. The test facility is being constructed on a 50:50 costsharing agreement between SaskPower and Hitachi, with Hitachi getting first dibs on using the plant to test some of their gas capturing equipment once it swings into operation. “A lot of companies want to see end results of the test facility. There is quite a lot of interest in it. I recently attended the National Carbon Capture Centre in Alabama and I know they’re very interested in some option projects at Shand,” said Monea. Each country or company that rents the equipment and time at the Shand site will have their own propriety and privacy requirements and SaskPower has no problem with that. Just as they also have no problem with items such as Shell’s own CanSolv amine liquids that are being used to capture carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide at Boundary Dam’s Unit 3, the commercial-sized operation.
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A $70 million post-combustion noxious gas capturing test facility built at Shand Power Station will have it’s own steady stream of international visitors and customers once it is completed in early 2015. “We only need to know enough to ensure it’s working safely in our plant. It’s their product,” said Monea. Shand certainly fits into a lot of business models currently on designer’s desks where they’re looking to test
their own theories on capturing noxious gases in a postcombustion setting. They gain knowledge and SaskPower will gain revenue. The plant time and equipment will rent out on an hourly basis and to set up and then operate a decent study and test run, generally takes 1,200 hours or more, he said. “We have Max Ball here who is a research expert, and he’s in contact with other people around the world. I know there’s a group in Norway who are keenly interested in testing capture products, as are the Chinese. They need to test their products in North America and Boundary Dam is the only place where there is credibility right now. It’s the new Silicon Valley in the clean coal solution game.” Monea said even though he and others in SaskPower and the provincial government have been tireless in their travelling around the globe, delivering the message, there are still a lot of researchers and politicians who haven’t been introduced to what’s happening in Estevan. “We haven’t been able to tell our story to everyone, but Estevan is becoming very popular,” Monea said. The SaskPower executive said the idea of making Estevan and Boundary Dam and Shand a centre of excellence isn’t beyond the realm of reason. He notes there is a lot of money that could be gained if the concept were to be monetized. In other words, there is a real business case to be made, as well as an educational component. “It would be a shame not to advance the knowledge. There are engineers and student engineers at universities who want to visit because the world centre for carbon capture is now southern Saskatchewan. I visited the University of Edinburgh and they have doctorate students who are dying for a chance to gain → A10 International
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