someone123
Nov 23, 2007, 4:34 PM
From the Chronicle Herald. I wonder how many businesses and homes are opting in?
Pipe dream refuses to connect
Heritage has to wait another day to complete Halifax gas link
By CLARE MELLOR Business Reporter
Fri. Nov 23 - 6:07 AM
A pipe dream on the verge of being realized just wasn’t fated to happen Thursday.
Work crews were expecting to start moving a gas connector pipeline through a tunnel deep beneath the floor of Halifax Harbour on Thursday afternoon.
But a broken fuse on a piece of equipment, along with darkening skies, delayed the project until this morning.
The 850-metre Heritage Gas pipeline, which will deliver natural gas to Halifax, is being pulled through a horizontal tunnel about 60 metres deep.
A drill rig on the Halifax side of the harbour is being used to pull the pipeline across.
"It’s pretty exciting," said Heritage Gas president Ray Ritcey, speaking of the ambitious $30-million gas tunnel project, which got underway in August.
"It’s a big day and tomorrow will be bigger."
Putting the steel pipeline in the tunnel is expected to take up to 24 hours.
At the Dartmouth work site, where journalists were invited to take a tour on Thursday, a crane was used to lift four separate sections of the pipeline.
The pipeline is about 30.5 centimetres in diameter, and sections are to be welded together as they are placed in the tunnel.
Heritage Gas hired Michels Canada Co. to create the 50-centimetre-wide tunnel, using a horizontal drilling technique. The drilling was completed earlier this month.
Natural gas is expected to be flowing on in the Halifax peninsula in about three weeks, Mr. Ritcey said.
Heritage Gas has laid about nine kilometres of pipeline on the Halifax peninsula and expects another two kilometres to be in place in the next couple of weeks, he said.
( cmellor@herald.ca)
Pipe dream refuses to connect
Heritage has to wait another day to complete Halifax gas link
By CLARE MELLOR Business Reporter
Fri. Nov 23 - 6:07 AM
A pipe dream on the verge of being realized just wasn’t fated to happen Thursday.
Work crews were expecting to start moving a gas connector pipeline through a tunnel deep beneath the floor of Halifax Harbour on Thursday afternoon.
But a broken fuse on a piece of equipment, along with darkening skies, delayed the project until this morning.
The 850-metre Heritage Gas pipeline, which will deliver natural gas to Halifax, is being pulled through a horizontal tunnel about 60 metres deep.
A drill rig on the Halifax side of the harbour is being used to pull the pipeline across.
"It’s pretty exciting," said Heritage Gas president Ray Ritcey, speaking of the ambitious $30-million gas tunnel project, which got underway in August.
"It’s a big day and tomorrow will be bigger."
Putting the steel pipeline in the tunnel is expected to take up to 24 hours.
At the Dartmouth work site, where journalists were invited to take a tour on Thursday, a crane was used to lift four separate sections of the pipeline.
The pipeline is about 30.5 centimetres in diameter, and sections are to be welded together as they are placed in the tunnel.
Heritage Gas hired Michels Canada Co. to create the 50-centimetre-wide tunnel, using a horizontal drilling technique. The drilling was completed earlier this month.
Natural gas is expected to be flowing on in the Halifax peninsula in about three weeks, Mr. Ritcey said.
Heritage Gas has laid about nine kilometres of pipeline on the Halifax peninsula and expects another two kilometres to be in place in the next couple of weeks, he said.
( cmellor@herald.ca)