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Tamil Nadu Buses - Photos & Discussion
This forum seriously lacks photos and hardly any talk of public transportation. So this new thread to share photos and discuss developments with SETC, TNSRTC, and the metro and city buses, bus terminals etc
|July 8th, 2009, 05:50 AM
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Welcome your move to open a thread on SETC,TNSTC and MTC.Hope this thread has a great run.
|July 8th, 2009, 05:55 AM
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MTC we have separate thread in Chennai folder. So let us discuss on SETC and TNSTC alone.
Thanks for starting this thread....
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MTC, SETC, Madurai and Coimbatore are loss makers as per 2008 news.
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Middle class people hit hard madurai matters
Source :The Hindu ,Dated 7th July'09
MADURAI: The moment prices of petrol and diesel are increased, the Opposition parties and consumer activists oppose it tooth and nail. Autorickshaw drivers silently increase the fare. Price of vegetables goes up.
When such are the woes of many segments in society, the TNSTC (Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation) has not revised its fares, say officials.
Covering five regions in southern districts, the TNSTC has a fleet strength of 2,040 city buses, 1,705 mofussil buses and 400 spare vehicles. On an average, it covers 17.60 lakh km a day. Last month alone, it covered 5.34 crore km. The diesel consumption for a month stands at around 10,200 litres. Till the revision announcement, diesel cost Rs. 32.89 a litre, which has climbed to Rs. 35.11. On an average, the corporation suffered a loss of around Rs. 2 crore a month due to revision of diesel prices, officials said. Despite the price increase, the State government was committed to serving the people and operated all the buses, a senior official said.
A TNSTC trade union leader, S. Sampath, said that the government should fully exempt diesel consumed by the TNSTC from levy of sales tax. Since we serve the public, there is no commercial motive. The TNSTC Madurai division alone is required to pay about Rs. 75 crore as sales tax every year. A relief from this burden will prove beneficial to the corporation, he said.
Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry senior president S. Rethinavelu said that following the rise in petrol and diesel prices, there would be an all round increase in prices of all commodities. At a time when manufacturing activity had slowed down in many sectors and as a chain reaction most sectors in the allied industries were feeling the pressure, increase in petrol and diesel prices would lead to more cut throat competition in the market place.
Though the lorry freight was mainly decided on demand and supply of consignments, for people in southern districts, a majority of the commodities arrived from northern States. Hence, the prices were likely to go up, Mr. Rethinavelu opined.
Many people want the authorities to examine ways to fix reasonable fares for autorickshaws. What prevents the officials from ensuring that meters are fixed in autorickshaws, they wonder.
Passengers at railway station and bus stands feel that when already autorickshaw drivers were fleecing customers, such a revision has come as an excuse to collect exorbitant fares. An automobile dealer selling high-end cars had a different story to tell: We have our sales target and every month we achieve it irrespective of increase in fuel prices.
|July 8th, 2009, 12:47 PM
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Govt's cure for 'sick' state transport: 40,000 low-floor buses
6 Jul 2009, 0338 hrs IST, Dipak Kumar Dash, TNN
NEW DELHI: In a move to improve public transport in rural areas and to help revive sick State Transport Undertakings (STUs) such as in Bihar, West
Bengal, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, the road transport and highways ministry has mooted a proposal to provide them 40,000 low floor buses. The proposal has been sent to Planning Commission and finance ministry for approval.
Confirming this, a senior ministry official said that though the proposal was prepared months back, they sent it to the plan penal and the finance ministry only after the poll results were out in May. As per the proposal, the Centre would bear 50% of the capital investment in case of all states except those in the north-east.
"We propose 75% central grant in case of those states to promote public health. There will be uniformity in the design of all these buses," the official said. This is seen as a move similar to the Centre's approval for states to purchase about 15,000 buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) as part of second economic stimulus package announced in February this year.
Sources in the ministry said the Centre's initiative would come as a big help to states where transport corporations have either been wound up or are in bad shape. Officials said that baring some states in the south such as Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, majority of STUs were not in good health both in terms of their fleet and finances.
For example, Orissa State Road Transport Corporation (OSRTC) has only 262 buses. MP, with only 315 buses, has decided to wind up the corporation. "The situation is similarly bad in Bihar. Condition of majority of buses in Punjab, Rajasthan and other states in north India are unsatisfactory, though Uttar Pradesh has made remarkable improvement recently modernising its fleet," said a senior ministry official. STUs, reeling under debts of more than Rs 1,70,000 crore, have been demanding one-time waiver from the Centre since 2005, which was turned down in the past.
Ministry sources said that though Centre had provided financial help to STUs for capital investment to revive them, the central assistance was used for 'non-designated' purposes by several states.
|July 8th, 2009, 12:51 PM
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Development of Bus terminal on PPP model
There is tender released by Transport dept with regads to development of Trichy SETC terminus on PPP model.Check out the link below for the detailed document.Seems a very new initiative.
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|July 8th, 2009, 03:28 PM
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This news is confusing! 1000 new AC buses within this year.
I think Dinakaran has goofed up the news.
Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy will get new AC buses.
Vellore will also get AC bus.
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|July 19th, 2009, 12:19 PM
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Nice thread
Hi Fusionist,
Nice 2 see this thread active here.
Throughout my life, I am an admirer of the Tamil Nadu State buses.
I had travelled across the length and breadth of the State and as to the neighboring States like Kerala & Tamil Nadu in Tamil Nadu's Government owned buses.
I am very much associated with this transport organization, ever since I was a child and I shall share some of my memories, while I get time.
I do remember the time, me as a child was travelling from Trivandrum to Nagercoil in the MSTD (Madras State Transport Department) buses.
The buses plying in the Trivandrum-Nagercoil/Kanya Kumari route were clad with brown colour.
Even during those days, there was a separate division for express buses.
The express buses were green plus yellow in colour and mostly served the Trivandrum-Kanya Kumari sector. There was a big depot for these green express buses at Kanya Kumari & kids used to watch this bus depot with much curiosity.
This is the story during the early 1970s.
Later on, Kattabomman Transport Corporation (KTC) and Tiruvalluvar Transport Corporation (TTC) started plying in the Trivandrum-Nagercoil and Tirunelveli routes. KTC was having jurisdiction over KK and Nellai districts.
The NTC or the Nesamony originated much later.
My first journery by bus across Tamil Nadu was a trip to Nagapattinam from Nagercoil. May be in '78 or '79. At that time, there was no depot for the TTC at Trivandrum and for boarding long distance buses, we needed to go to the TTC depots either at Martandam or Nagercoil. (It was in the early 80s that TTC started its fully fledged depot at Trivandrum.) During this trip, I saw a number of bus body building units attached to the depots, exclusively to build buses for TTC. I could see one such unit at Meenakshipuram (NGL), Nellai, Madurai and so on.
Will post more information when I get time.
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|July 31st, 2009, 05:57 PM
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Express buses has been increased
This news tells about increase of express buses and cutting down the ordinary buses...and more about fares..
and 100 express buses operated from salem to chennai per day ...
and more details...
|August 4th, 2009, 05:57 AM
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Hi this is my first message in this website,better i want to discuss the small things which can improve tamilnadu bas transport system , now a day as many of us are preferred to travel on train or private omni bus providers , the reason TNSTC and SETC were Lagging in service,some suggestions to improve SETC
1.Online reservations system.
2. Reservation counter with seats available in each buses should be displayed at the entrance.
3.reservation counter should be outside of the busstand.
4.Should Provide water in the buses(mineral water) for long travel like8 hours.
5.Increases theniumber of bus transport in week ends and night.
6.issue a cover like what they give in flight wont cost more thn 30 paise if bulk booking ,in their seats and if they vomit inside they have to charge them a small money as fine or they have to clean it(cleaning things should be there in the bus).
7.Some maintanance inside this setc Buses like fan and tv set, and main thing is to remove the very old thiruvalluvar buses from setc..
Some suggestions for TNSTC:
1. ontime starting if the bus is full or empty at the starting period its loss making but long turn.
2.some buses where no standing board has to made,where conductor is not required.
3.should stop at good restaurant near some city busstand not on the outskirts of the city where we have to pay for evrything which is too costly thn the other places,
4. good maintanance again which is lagging in all our transport systems.
5. some increments for the good petrol consumption,good servvice to passengers,feed back from passengers something attractive.
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*50 crores TNSTC/SETC will get profit in advertisement through satellite TV
*TNSTC/SETC was spending 17crores in renting the DVD players. So satellite TV concept was introduced.
* Now LCD monitors are fitted in Trichy, Madurai & Nellai buses.
* Satellite TV will be telecasted either from Trichy or Chennai.
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Chennai HC directs removal of ads from govt buses
Chennai, Aug 6 : Madras High Court today directed the State Transport Authorities (STA) to remove all advertisement signboards from the State-owned corporation buses immediately.
While allowing a Public Interest Litigation Petition(PIL), a Division Bench comprising Justices S J Mukhopadhya and Raja Ilango held display on the side of the buses caused accidents and casualties.
In his PIL, Coimbatore Consumer Forum president M Kaliyamurthy submitted that the State Transport Authorities and the State-owned Transport Corporation Managing Directors allowed private publicity companies to use back windscreen of the buses and both the side window mirrors to display commercial advertisements.
''To earn money for the transport corporations, the officials allowed the private parties to use the State-owned buses for products publicity purpose which is a violation of Motor Vehicles Regulation Act (MVR Act),'' he contended.
''While thousands of buses carrying advertisement signboards are attracting bypass riders, it leads to accidents and causalties,'' Mr Kaliyamurthy added and sought to forbear the authorities from displaying advertisements on buses.
The Bench also directed the transport authorities to file the compliance report within two weeks.
Adverstisement on Public transport is a Global phenomena and i have never seen anyone complaining that they met with a accident due to a adverstisement on a Bus.In that case all vinyl banners in cities and even sticking posters on walls need to be banned.
Coimbatore Consumer Forum has literally killed a good revenue route for the STC's.Now STC's will dump more SLF buses on the public vigorously to compensate the loss of revenue from ads.
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She's just past one, so summer sunshine is falling on her and her high chair. Her face is all joy: eyes closed, mouth open (no teeth on the top yet!), and her mouth and cheeks covered in red. I don't think I'll ever forget the occasion: the first time Lucy ate strawberries.
Oh that delight in first foods. And the lip-twisting, scrunch-faced opinion of lemons upon eating them for the first time. We're hard-wired to love sweetness at first. It makes sense. Bitter, sour foods might have been an indicator of poison when we were wandering on plains and jungles. Sweetness meant surety and satiety. Babies have primal instincts. That's why we have to resist giving them too many sweet things for their own good. And for ourselves. Given the choice, we might choose sweet every time.
I loved the post our friend Molly wrote recently about how she and Brandon feed their darling daughter, June. (In our house, she's known as Juuuuuuuune!) It's a great post about keeping calm and common sense on the table as much as food. It's actually a pretty great piece about how to feed ourselves as adults, as well. I liked this, in particular:
" I try not to give her a lot of sweet things – not because I think I can mold her into a non-sweets-craving person (haa haaaa, RIIIIIIIIIGHT), but mostly because I know she will want to eat the living crap out of them, and I want her to save room for other things. I would like her to grow up understanding that there is no such thing as bad food: that some foods are better for our bodies, yes, and some food isn't food at all (like Nerds and sour gummies, both of which I would currently kill for), but that there is time enough for all of it. I want her to know that food is about pleasure and connection and sustenance."
This feels so much the way we have been talking about food with Lu these past five years. And ourselves.
Last year, I asked my friend Mary Purdy, who is a wise woman and wonderful dietician, a question that had puzzled me for years. Why do I always lose weight on vacation? We go to Italy or Providence or New York City or San Francisco, and I eat at restaurants for nearly every meal, and yet I come home lighter. Why? It can't just be that I'm walking so much. I walk a lot at home too. She laughed when I asked her this. And then she said something that has stayed with me since. When we eat with any anger, guilt, fear, or feeling of obligation, our body reads it as stress. And that means our body releases cortisol, the stress hormone. Chronic stress not only puts our health at risk but it also tells our body to keep on belly fat and weight. On the other hand, if we eat in joy, relaxed at the table with our friends, laughing — or on vacation — that act triggers our metabolism into higher gear.
So, in essence, the answer to our problems is radical: let's enjoy the hell out of all of our food.
Lu loved her strawberries on first taste. She still does. But she used to suck on lemons, willingly. And when she was getting in those teeth, nothing else would do but gnawing on a big bunch of green onions. Today, she delights in the idea of getting an ice cream cone. She claps her hands and jumps up and down. Then, after five bites of it, she throws it in the trash. And she will eat roasted chicken salad with slivers of bitter endive too.
The post I wrote on Monday seemed to resonate with so many of you. Thank you for your kind comments. It's clear there's a place for conversation about kale salads and kabocha squash/sweet potato soup and wild arugula amidst a culture dedicated to sweet gooey things and processed food and posts about cookies because they bring a bigger audience than modest amounts of savory foods. But I like talking about squashes and endive and avocados because they excite me, not because I think they are the "right" foods.
Let's be the tribe of people who don't think of salads as health food, shall we? Let's remember how lucky we are to have food.
I'm especially humbled that writing about my own discoveries toward better health seemed to inspire you. However, after all that talk about health, I'm ready to just enjoy my food, all of my food. Because, for me, the healthiest food is the meal in front of me in the moment, eaten joyfully, while laughing.
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Four area men face charges in coin theft
A Kountze man being held in the Hardin County Jail for allegedly stealing more than $100,000 in gold coins from an elderly couple in Runnels County, about 50 miles south of Abilene, is also being looked at by the FBI for his alleged involvement with similar crimes throughout the U.S., The Examiner has discovered.
Justin Allen O'Neal, born May 2, 1975, was arrested in September along with three other local men – Ryan Lambeth, William O'Conner and Thomas Eckert – although Eckert told the newspaper he was an unwitting participant in O'Neal's scheme. Eckert said he was asked to drive O'Neal to meet with "clients" in Runnels County in exchange for a "couple hundred dollars" because O'Neal did not have a driver's license. O'Neal is on felony probation for intoxication assault with a motor vehicle, according to state records.
"All I did was drive out there," said, Eckert. "I had no idea what O'Neal was doing and I did not know he was not giving people the coins, keeping their money. I didn't know any of that stuff. All he told me was 'I don't have a license, we need somebody to drive,' so I drove out there. He said he would give me a couple hundred bucks and that was it. I never even got a hundred bucks for going out there. I drove out there and drove back. He did his thing with the coins and never gave me my money. So, I said to hell with it."
Eckert said he knew O'Neal from when he worked with him at Universal Coin & Bullion several years before but O'Connor was not with him, Lambeth and O'Neal on the trip to Runnels County.
All four men have been arrested and charged with first-degree felony theft and could face charges of organized criminal activity, according to Runnels County Deputy Steven Gray.
Gray said he believes all of the men named and arrested were complicit in the alleged crimes and there are two other individuals who are also being investigated.
"We have two more that we are looking at but O'Neal, O'Connor, Eckert and Lambeth have all been arrested and are out on bond – all except for O'Neal," Gray said. "The (Texas) Ranger arrested them there. When we go to grand jury, we are also going to try to get indictments, not only for the theft, but for organized criminal activity."
The investigation into O'Neal began after an elderly woman alerted the Runnels County Sheriff's Office that O'Neal had tried to talk her into parting with her gold coin collection and then took them without her permission during a visit to her home.
According to Gray, O'Neal gained the trust of an elderly woman in Runnels County by pretending to be O'Connor and promised to help her with her coin collection, as well as pay off the debt for the coins on her credit cards.
"I knew the people here in the county who had gotten taken, and she had given me a call wanting to talk with me and came in to visit," Gray said. "Her husband was just put into a nursing home and she didn't want him to know anything about it – she is 86 and he is 97. So, we sat down and she gave me all of her information."
Gray said the former government employee kept meticulous records and was able to show him everything he needed, including names and descriptions, to begin investigating the theft of her coins.
"The coin salesman she had been dealing with, that is who this guy (O'Neal) portrayed himself as," Gray said. "He portrayed himself as William (Billy) O'Connor. She had never met Billy but had numerous conversations with him buying coins and stuff. She was going to try and sell some coins and this guy saying he was Billy O'Connor showed up to help her sell some of her coins. He was going to look into it and when he left, all the coins left with him."
But even though O'Neal is believed by Gray to have taken the coins on his fist trip to Runnels County, he made two return trips to the woman's home and even installed two safes in her closet to supposedly keep the coins safe.
"He came back two more times to visit with them … but he had already sold the coins," Gray said. "He was a smooth guy. He spent several hours that first visit. He didn't switch coins. She had the coins in their original wrappers and envelopes in a suitcase. He came in and inventoried everything – he and the others. They put them back in the envelopes and put them back in the suitcase and put them back up for her.
"The next time he brought two safes and mounted them in her closet. He told her he checked the coins again and then he put them back in the closet. The third time he came back he showed her a couple of bogus checks or photocopies of checks saying that he had paid off her credit card debts and he was there to collect his coins. He must have picked up the empty boxes because he sold her coins right after the first trip."
Gray said the coins were sold to American Rare Coin and Collectibles in Bloomington, Minn., and Gray said the company had already re-sold most of the coins."They are supposed to be holding two coins for me," Gray said. "And from what I understand through the feds and the Rangers, that is where almost every coin he stole has gone.
"It wasn't one of these where they said 'I am going to take your coins and get back with you' where it would fall under a civil matter. It was a, 'I am going to help you out but first I am going to steal your coins.'"
Over the years O'Neal bounced around local coin companies before opening his own operation, International Trading Company in Lumberton. The company has an "F-rating" with the BBB and failed to respond to 10 complaints about delivery issues and billing matters in the past 12 months.
Gray said he had been working with Mike Fuljenz, president of Universal Coin & Bullion (UCB) of Beaumont, to get additional information on the stolen coins because they had originally been purchased from First Fidelity Reserve, a company Fuljenz is associated with as a consultant. It is also the company where O'Connor worked until June.Gray said American Rare Coin and Collectibles didn't have any records or information on the coins they had purchased from O'Neal or to whom they were sold.
"They say they don't know where they went because they don't keep any records," Gray said. "These are graded coins and they all have serial numbers, which I have entered into TCIC/NCIC (Texas Crime Information Center/National Crime Information Center databases) but they claim they don't write anything down on the serial numbers or who they sold them to. To me it is a crock.
"The coin dealer I am dealing with in Beaumont – First Fidelity – had records on everything but the place in Minnesota, I checked with them up there and they didn't know, they were no help and didn't offer help. As a matter of fact, they said they wouldn't do anything."
Neither John Saffert nor Mark Senden of American Rare Coin and Collectibles in Bloomington returned phone calls seeking comment about their company's involvement in the purchase of stolen coins.
Fuljenz said he was familiar with O'Neal because he had previously worked for Universal Coin & Bullion on two occassions - most recently ending his employment in January 2007. Fuljenz said O'Neal was terminated and not eligible for rehire.
In fact, according to court records from the 356th Judicial Court in Hardin County, Fuljenz obtained a judgment against O'Neal in July preventing him from contacting current or former customers and vendors or suppliers of UCB after he proved O'Neal had taken customer lists from his company.
Additionally, B.J. Garrett of Imperial Currency in Sour Lake said he spoke to the FBI as recently as Tuesday about O'Neal. Garrett told The Examiner O'Neal had worked for him in the past. Lambeth had also work for Garerett's company before going to work for O'Neal's company.
"They are trying to build their case," Garrett said of the FBI. "He was fired from this company, as well, in 2009. He went and opened IT (in Lumberton) and things went down from there. He would go to people's houses doing trade deals, essentially taking their coins, selling them and not sending them anything back. He was keeping them and spending their money."
Scott Bauer, the FBI's supervisory special agent in Beaumont, said it was the policy of the U.S. Department of Justice that he could neither confirm nor deny an investigation by the agency. However, he did confirm the state's criminal case against O'Neal and the other men involved. He did not answer further questions when pressed.
Information obtained by The Examiner from a deposition in the case involving UCB revealed O'Neal would sometimes take a few lesser valued coins and leave them with people while he took their rare coins, sold them and refused to return their phone calls for months when they tried to ask about the money they were owed.
"My concern is how we help people avoid this type of thing," Fuljenz said. "What he is doing is using ex-salespeople at my company and other companies as the window to get into people.
"I think one thing that will help is for people to make sure their dealer is lawfully conducting business by asking for their Texas telemarketing registration number and their proof of Patriot Act Anti-Money Laundering compliance. These guys weren't lawfully licensed by the state, weren't PCGS (Professional Coin Grading Service) or NGC (Numismatic Guarantee Corporation) authorized dealers or members of other leading coin dealer organizations, which are things customers should check for."
Fuljenz said he will buy back any coin that is recovered by the woman in Runnels County at the price she paid.
Attempts to reach O'Connor were unsuccessful and a number could not be located for Lamberth. O'Neal declined a jailhouse interview with The Examiner.


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San Jose mayor files public pension initiative
In a move that portends a labor firestorm, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and four other city leaders filed papers on Tuesday aiming to put a public pension measure on the November 2014 statewide ballot.
If approved, the measure sent to Attorney General Kamala Harris would change the California Constitution to give state and local government employers authority to lower current employees' pension and retiree health benefits prospectively. Until now, most legal experts have concluded that the state constitution protects pensions promised to workers on their first day at work as a "vested right" that can't be reduced without comparable compensation in return.
"It's an empowering initiative for governments," Reed said during a Tuesday afternoon telephone interview.
Labor interests knew the proposal was coming. Shortly before Reed issued his press release, the unions issued a statement blasting the plan. Dave Low, chairman of labor coalition Californians for Retirement Security, called Reed's plan an "extreme proposal, advanced by a career politician."
If the measure reaches the ballot, Low predicted, "it will energize the same coalition that defeated Proposition 32," the failed 2012 measure that aimed to make it more difficult for unions to collect dues from members.
To counter labor attacks, Reed has been busy building a bipartisan coalition to support his ballot measure. On Tuesday, four Democratic mayors – Reed, San Bernardino's Pat Morris, Santa Ana's Miguel Pulido, Pacific Grove's Bill Kampe – and Anaheim's Republican Mayor Tom Tait submitted language for the "Pension Reform Act of 2014" with a letter asking Harris to assign it a title and description.
But it is Reed, mayor of California's third-largest city, who is the face of the latest campaign to alter current public employee pensions. Last year he sponsored a successful San Jose ballot measure that forced current city employees to choose a less-generous retirement plan for future service or contribute more money to continue their more generous pension. Like the statewide proposal Reed introduced Tuesday, the measure didn't change benefits workers had accrued. Voters overwhelmingly approved the plan. Unions have sued to block it.
Still, pension reformers hailed Reed's 69 percent-to-31 percent local pension victory as a watershed moment that proved voters care about pension politics. It also thrust the 65-year-old mayor into the forefront of California's public pension debate. Since then he has crisscrossed the state and traveled to Washington, D.C., to talk up pensions and round up supporters for a statewide initiative.
Reed's new political committee, Coalition for Fair and Sustainable Pensions, hasn't raised any money yet.
"It's too early in the process," Reed said, because he doesn't know what ballot title and summary the attorney general will hang on the measure. The language matters because it influences how voters perceive what the proposal accomplishes or whom it harms.
Last year, for example, another group complained that Harris, a union-friendly Democrat, skewed their measure's title and summary so unfairly that it stood virtually no chance of passage. The campaign died because donors wouldn't ante up the $2 million or so needed to collect qualifying signatures for a sure-fire loser.
Some of the players in that failed effort are on Reed's team this time around, including consultant Dan Pellissier. The memory of that stinging defeat is still fresh.
"We've drafted accordingly," Reed said, by designing an initiative that gives government agencies the "tools" to cut pension costs without prescribing how they do it.
That should "generate a favorable title and summary," Reed said.
Once the language is in hand, campaign veterans say, Reed's group will test voter reaction and – assuming the measure tests well – shop it to potential contributors in late December and early January.
The fundraising comes with another concern, said Bill Whalen, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution: "If you're running this initiative, where do you find that money in California?"
Unions have already made hay with reports that Reed asked a Houston-based nonprofit to give $200,000 to his local chamber of commerce last summer for "policy analysis for statewide pension reform," according to a report the mayor filed in August. The nonprofit, Action Now Initiative, has ties to former Enron executive John Arnold.
"The unions will make this a referendum on out-of-state money," Whalen said. "The playbook is very predictable."
Still, the former speechwriter for Republican Gov. Pete Wilson thinks the issue has resonance with voters who are watching cities such as Stockton, San Bernardino and elsewhere wrestle with cutting services to pay their pension obligations.
"I think there's an audience for this outside the Sacramento beltway," Whalen said.
That may be, said Jack Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College. But the early predictions are that Gov. Jerry Brown will lead another sweep of Democratic wins to statewide offices next year. Republicans won't have much reason to turn out in force.
"It's an election that Brown is going win by a substantial margin," Pitney said. "It's hard to see an election where the governor wins and voters pass something like this."
Plus, labor interests are organized in every precinct statewide, and the issue matters more to them than to any other group – including the monied interests that might write checks for it.
"For the unions it's Armageddon," Pitney said. "For the other side it's just a video game."
But Jon Hamm, the longtime executive director of the California Association of Highway Patrolmen, predicted unions face an uphill battle. Pensions, once more common in the private business than in government, have virtually disappeared.
"This won't be an easy fight," Hamm said, "because the campaign will play to the emotions of private sector workers who have already had this done to them."


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WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stepped into the fractious payroll tax cut extension standoff between the Republican-controlled House and Democrat-controlled Senate Thursday — a move that upped the ante in the high stakes debate and pushed House GOP leadership toward a tentative resolution.
"With today's agreement between the Speaker (John Boehner) and Leader (Harry)Reid, working Americans can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that their taxes will not go up at the end of the year," McConnell said in a statement.
Earlier in the day, McConnell asked the House to pass a short term stop gap and the Senate to agree to discuss a more permanent solution. The Kentucky Republican laid out what he saw as room for compromise in House and Senate passed bipartisan bills to require the president to quickly make a decision on whether to support thousands of U.S. manufacturing jobs through the Keystone XL pipeline, and to extend unemployment insurance, the temporary payroll tax cut and seniors' access to medical care.
"There is no reason why Congress and the president cannot accomplish all of these things before the end of the year," McConnell said. "House Republicans sensibly want greater certainty about the duration of these provisions, while Senate Democrats want more time to negotiate the terms. These goals are not mutually exclusive. We can and should do both."
During a speech on Thursday, President Barack Obama echoed McConnell's calls to negotiate a payroll tax deal.
"This isn't a typical Democratic-versus-Republican issue," Obama said. "This is an issue where an overwhelming number of people in both parties agree. How can we not get that done? I mean, has this place become so dysfunctional that even when people agree to things we can't do it?"
But it was McConnell's statements, which followed a week of tense back and forth in the House when many Republican members in that chamber balked at supporting compromise legislation, authored in part by the Kentucky Republican, which registered the most surprise in political circles and pushed House Republican leadership to come back to the table, political experts say.
McConnell's move offers high ranking negotiators, including his Republican colleague House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Democrats Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. and President Barack Obama, escape hatches. Meanwhile, McConnell, who in the past has said he wants to help the GOP take back the White House, looks like a statesman, political experts say.
"Nobody has ever challenged or doubted McConnell's political sagacity," said Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "It's been clear for the past couple of days is that Republicans were taking a beating on this and they looked like idiots and they had to find a way out that would at least leave John Boehner with some kind of fig leaf."
Enter McConnell.
Over the weekend, despite disappointments on both side of the aisle, the Senate approved a measure to assure 160 million people that they'll get a Social Security tax break for two more months. McConnell spoke with Boehner after the vote, according to McConnell staffers, and gave the House leader a gist of the measure.
However, it soon became clear that House Republicans were opposed to the plan. "It's pretty clear that I and our members oppose the Senate bill," Boehner, R-Ohio, told NBC's "Meet the Press." Republicans, he said, want a longer-term fix.
Boehner was reflecting the view of many House Republicans, who complained loudly in a conference call about the deal hours after the Senate overwhelmingly approved the measure on Saturday.
Reid, reacted angrily. "Instead of threatening middle-class families with a thousand-dollar tax hike, Speaker Boehner should bring up the bipartisan compromise that McConnell and I negotiated, and which passed the Senate with an overwhelming majority of Democratic and Republican votes," Reid said. "I would hate to think that Speaker Boehner is refusing to act on this bipartisan compromise because he is afraid it will actually pass, but I cannot imagine any other reason why he would not bring it up for a vote."
Then, for days, McConnell commenced radio silence as some GOP leaders and even the Wall Street Journal's editorial board criticized how congressional Republicans handled the payroll tax debate.
"The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play," the newspaper's editorial board wrote earlier this week. "Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting Mr. Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter, although he's spent most of his Presidency promoting tax increases and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013. This should be impossible."
McConnell's silence was conspicuous, Ornstein said.
"He waited and let others from Newt Gingrich to the Wall Street Journal bash Boehner like a piñata and let it sink it with some of the rank and file members of the house. He waited until they knew they had gotten themselves into a mess."
Mere hours after McConnell issued his call for cooperation, Boehner appeared before the Capitol Hill press corps and announced a compromise.
"Senator Reid and I have reached an agreement that will ensure taxes do not increase for working families on January 1 while ensuring that a complex new reporting burden is not unintentionally imposed on small business job creators," Boehner said.
David Lightman in Washington contributed.
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It's hard to understand how they do it, but somehow those holding the purse strings of public schools sometimes fail to remember "little" necessities like these when taking wild ax swings at education costs. The first expenditure usually in their sights are teacher salaries and all other costs associated with the public school system payroll.
These same politicians fail to remember that this is the 21st century. It is not Laura Ingall Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," a period during the 19th century when how well one's cabin was heated was directly related to how much wood was gathered for a fire. Today, teachers and others pay utility companies to provide heat, and at a cost that continues to rise.
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Are teachers dedicated, as some question when toying with pay cuts?
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Adjust or cut pay for educators? That would be reckless when considering most Americans would prefer to be dropped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean than at the head of a classroom.


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There have been rumors lately that AOL would spin out Huffington Post for $1 billion. It also recently sold its patent portfolio for $1 billion.
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It's party time at Broadway in Boston, now in the midst of its 30th anniversary season of presenting Broadway shows in the theater district.
And what better way to kick off its 2014-2015 season than with Disney's The Lion King? The landmark musical, with its strutting giraffes, swooping birds and leaping gazelles, roars into the Opera House Sept. 9 through Oct. 12. It marks the 10th anniversary of the refurbished venue, which re-opened in 2004 with -- what else? -- The Lion King.
Ben Lipitz was here in 2004 and again in 2009, playing Pumbaa, the big-hearted warthog and cheerful sidekick to Timon, the meerkat.
The pair help young Simba defeat evil Scar and sing the upbeat "Hakuna Matata.
Lipitz hasn't tired of playing Pumbaa off-and-on for 12 years.
"Everyone loves Pumbaa; he's larger than life and has this incredible outlook. We should all strive to be like that," Lipitz said by phone from Montreal.
Playing him requires agility.
"I have a three-foot wig and wear a 45-pound puppet that makes him come alive. I stay in shape just to manage the costume," he quipped.
Behind the scenes, Sue McLaughlin makes sure Pumbaa's outfit and more than 200 other puppets are kept in perfect shape for the performers.
From giant giraffes to grasslands headpieces, the Lion King puppets are McLaughlin's domain.
"Three of us tour with the company, maintaining, cleaning and repairing the 230 puppets and masks," said McLaughlin, who is from Milford, N.H., where she interned in the 1980s at the American Stage Festival.
Whether onstage or backstage, Disney's The Lion King is a treat for the company, Lipitz and McLaughlin say. And they promise that for audiences, too.
"Working with The Lion King is exciting and rewarding," said McLaughlin.
"And we can't wait to bring it back to Boston," noted Lipitz.
Visit www.BroadwayInBoston.com for tickets and information.
Thirty years, 7 million patrons and more than 250 productions later, Broadway in Boston is one of the key players in revitalizing the theater district and keeping it strong.
No one is more excited with its success than Rich Jaffe, president of Broadway in Boston.
"It's been a great 30 years bringing the best of Broadway to Boston," Jaffe said recently.
Highlights include the investments that Broadway in Boston has made to renovate the city's historic theaters: the Colonial in 1995 and 2002, the Wilbur in 1996, the Opera House in 2004 and the Charles Playhouse in 2014.
Each season, Jaffe features new musicals, direct from Broadway, and fan favorites back for return engagements.
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Disney's The Lion King, Sept. 9-Oct. 12, Boston Opera House
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Overflow crowd of beer lovers awaits Pliny the Younger
You don't call this stuff brewski.
The hundreds of people who lined up in the rain in downtown Santa Rosa on Friday morning - some arriving the night before with umbrellas, North Face parkas and a good bit of facial hair - came to pay tribute to craft beer.
Specifically, they sought this year's batch of Pliny the Younger, a super-hoppy, high-alcohol "triple IPA" that has silenced the whiniest of beer snobs and put the small Russian River Brewing Co. on the map. Some call it the best beer on Earth.
With a limited supply available, the annual release on the first Friday of February has become an affair akin to the revealing of an Apple gadget or a cult sneaker, a testament to a craft-beer explosion in which imperial stouts and sour ales have nudged into a marketplace once dominated by the likes of Miller and Bud.
Sales of Russian River ales and other U.S. specialty brews have pushed craft-beer sales to 10.2 percent of the domestic beer market, in dollar terms, according to the Brewers Association, an industry group.
"Believe the hype," said 28-year-old Darin Yamashita, who flew in from Hawaii on Thursday with his brother just for a taste of the prized juice. "I love it. Bitter, but very, very smooth."
The doors of the taproom opened shortly before 11 a.m. to those who waited the longest - hardy souls who closed the bar the previous night, then headed outside with lawn chairs. As the day wore on, the line didn't let up, with enthusiasts reporting wait times of up to six hours.
"It's all about the experience," said Jon Houland, who came from Minnesota's Twin Cities for the storied release. "Where else besides church and comic book conventions are you going to find people interested in the same thing you are? Everyone is speaking beer."
The hubbub over Pliny the Younger, now in its 10th year, went beyond the swillers. Opportunistic merchants hawked herbal tea and pizza to out-of-towners. Two hotels offered special "Younger packages." Though one elderly woman who walked by the line was perplexed - "What's everyone waiting for, free coffee?" she asked - the local paper pronounced, "Let the Pliny Madness Begin."
Brewmaster Vinnie Cilurzo, who owns the pub with his wife, Natalie, has come to expect crowds for Pliny the Younger. But he said he's still humbled by the turnout.
Widely credited for introducing the double IPA (India pale ale) style, Cilurzo described his triple IPA as chock-full of hoppy bitterness and aromatics. Pliny the Younger pushes the upper limits on flavor for beer, but still achieves a flawless balance, or so say the critics.
"If there's anything that makes it a little different this year, and better, it's that we've become better as brewers at selecting the hops," Cilurzo said.
The line to taste Pliny the Younger at the San Francisco Beer Week Opening Gala on Friday night wasn't as long as the one in Santa Rosa, but it was close. More than 100 people lined up for the Younger when the doors opened at 6, but hundreds of others bypassed the fervor and sampled the pale ales, IPAs, stouts, sours and other styles from the 80 other breweries in attendance.
The craft beer spectacle at the South of Market event was part 24-course tasting menu and part high school kegger. Beer industry representatives from Sierra Nevada, Lagunitas, Anchor, Linden Street and other Northern California breweries showed off their finest craft beers, some of which, including Lagunitas' S.F. Beer Week Fusion, were brewed specially for this week.
S.F. Beer Week "has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger," said Bob Brewer, who has worked at Anchor Brewing for 29 years, attended the Opening Gala since its founding and swears that's his real surname. "It's an invitational now. It's a phenomenon."
Pliny the Younger is named after the storied lawyer and author from ancient Rome. It's available only on draft and rationed over a course of two weeks, through Feb. 20.
Bowman Chaney wasn't taking a chance, nabbing the first spot in line. "I always wanted the chance to try it," said the 24-year-old from Sacramento. "It's like Disney World here, but for adults."
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It has been 10 years since Russian River Brewing Co. introduced its Pliny the Younger Triple IPA. In a decade, the beer's limited February release has become perhaps the biggest phenomenon in the U.S. craft beer industry and has helped propel Russian River into the top tier of American craft breweries. Here's a timeline of the brewery and its most famous brews:
1994: Vinnie Cilurzo, who grew up in a winemaking family, founds Blind Pig Brewing Co. in Temecula (Riverside County). He operates it for about three years.
1997: Cilurzo and his wife, Natalie, move to Sonoma County. He starts work as the brewmaster at Russian River Brewing Co., an operation then owned by Korbel Champagne Cellars.
2000: Russian River debuts its double-hopped India pale ale, Pliny the Elder, at the Double IPA Festival in Hayward. Its namesake is the Roman naturalist and philosopher who died in 79 A.D. and who some folks say was one of the first people to write about hops. The name's genesis aside, the beer still holds a perfect 100 score on beer-rating website Beer Advocate and is the No. 3 beer overall.
2003: Korbel sells the Russian River brand to the Cilurzos.
2004: Russian River Brewing's brewpub opens in downtown Santa Rosa.
2005: Pliny the Younger debuts. The triple-hopped India pale ale clocks in with an alcohol content of more than 10 percent. It's available for only two weeks a year because of its time- and cash-consuming brewing process.
2008: Cilurzo wins the Brewers Association's Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Craft Brewing, one of the industry's most prestigious honors.
2008: Russian River's production brewery opens about a mile from the brewpub, allowing for beers to get to three times as many thirsty fans.
2010: Beer Advocate users give Pliny the Younger a perfect score and the No. 1 ranking, making it the unofficial best beer in the U.S. The day of the beer's February release, Russian River is overwhelmed by the throngs of fans and runs out of the Younger within hours.
2013: Russian River works with the Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa on a special Pliny the Younger package deal in response to the throngs of suds-soaked tourists who flock to Santa Rosa each February. (A second hotel joins in on the promotion in 2014.)
2014: Pliny pursuers should expect a line at the Russian River brewpub that at times surpasses last year's eight-hour wait.
San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Tim O'Rourke contributed to this report. Kurtis Alexander is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @kurtisalexander


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This site is expected to develop continually, and we hope that visitors will contribute additional information and documentation of past and present activities of women at Rensselaer.
This exhibit is based on materials displayed in the Fixman Room of the Archives and Special Collections Department, Folsom Library, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The original exhibit was created by Archives staff in the early 1990s.
The online version of the exhibit has been revised and updated by Automation Archivist Tammy Gobert, with technical assistance from Amalia Widyasanti (scanning, graphics, and Web page production), Kairy Walker (scanning), and Eric Mann (research and documentation).
The project was supported in part by a 1998 grant from Rensselaer's 175th Anniversary Committee.
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Today is a special day for me; it's the day I celebrate my Ridge Anniversary. July 17th. The day I signed my offer letter for employment with Ridge Vineyards. It was an indisputably life-changing day.
When I first came to Ridge, Donn Reisen was still with us, and The Great Recession had not yet occurred. The 2001 Monte Bello had not yet received a 99 point rating from Robert Parker, and this blog did not yet exist. I was not yet a husband, nor a father. I am proudly, miraculously, both now.
Things have certainly changed.
July 17, historically, it seems to me, has not proven to be either a particularly auspicious, or inauspicious date. I mean, admittedly, Constantinople fell to the First Crusade on this date, but, well, that was a long time ago. Though it does call to mind for me They Might Be Giants' version of "Istanbul, No Constantinople":
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Which, I should note, was originally performed by The Four Lads. See for yourself Le Difference!
And it was, in fact, the day that Walt Disney opened Disneyland is Anaheim, California, back in 1955. But, well, that was just Goofy …
It was also Jimmy Cagney's birthday, which should certainly count for something. And in fact, it was actually the day Billie Holiday passed, which really counts for something.
Which most certainly calls to mind a great poem by Frank O' Hara …
…entitled "The Day Lady Died" …
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille Day, yes
it is 1959, and I go get a shoeshine
because I will get off the 4:19 in East Hampton
at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner
and I don't know the people who will feed me
I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun
and have a hamburger and a malted and buy
an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets
in Ghana are doing these days
I go on to the bank
and Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard)
doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life
and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Nègres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness
and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE
Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega, and
then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue
and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatere and
casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton
of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it
and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing.
I get nostalgic when I think of anniversaries, and my inner hobo old bluesman man comes out. I get melancholic, and wise, and mournful, and excellent. And in a strange way, I also get young again. Which calls to mind Bob Dylan's great song, "My Back Pages":
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
Which then calls to mind my re-write of another verse from this song, which I just wrote:
In a pourer's stance, I aim my wine
At the visitors who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my guests
In the instant that I preach
My wineway led by allusion notes
Poetry from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
Which means nothing other than that I learn alot by being here. I have learned SO MUCH by being here.
Sometimes I just stop, look around, and say to myself, "Wow, I work at Ridge!"
July 17th. To paraphrase a line from Ice Cube, "Today was a good day."


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Employees >1000
Facilities 39
In 2016, SECURE's PRD division has grown to operate 39 facilities in the WCSB and North Dakota. Our expanding facility footprint has created the opportunity to provide many waste disposal solutions throughout conventional and unconventional oil and gas exploration:
- Kakwa FST: Custom treating and terminalling facility opened to serve customers in the area south of Grande Prairie
- Big Mountain Creek SWD: Increased disposal capacity
- Kaybob SWD: Increased disposal capacity
- Keene FST: Oil pipeline connection completed and shipped first oil in April
- Pembina Landfill: The only landfill in Alberta accepting Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM)
- Kindersley FST: Increased throughput capacity
- Alida Custom Oil Terminalling Facility: Acquired a clean dry oil blending terminal in Alida, Saskatchewan
- Judy Creek and La Glace FST: Increased ownership to 100% of both facilities
- South Grande Prairie Landfill: Completed cell expansion
- SECURE's Drilling & Production Services division maintained a 29% drilling fluids market share and is growing its Production Chemicals and Chemical EOR product offering
- SECURE's OnSite Services division is now providing services outside of the oil and gas industry in new geographic regions in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, it increased the number of waste containers on customers locations by 32% and focused on furthering the development of the full-cycle water management service
- In its third year, SECURE's employee led community volunteerism group: GenC: Caring for our Communities, participated in twelve events throughout the year
- To align with Alberta's new Climate Leadership Plan, SECURE established standard operating procedures for managing fugitive emissions at all Canadian facilities
- In partnership with British Oil and Gas Commission, UBC Okanagan and the MITACS acceleration program; SECURE participated in the Natural Gas Strategic Research Initiative studying the water life cycle for the hydraulic fracturing operations in the northeast B.C.Montney play
Employees >1000
Facilities 38
In 2015, SECURE opened five new facilities in strategic areas to meet the needs of our clients:
- Wonowon SWD: a fit-for-purpose oilfield fluid processing and disposal facility in the Wonowon area, located near Fort St. John, British Columbia. The facility was designed to accommodate a future expansion in order to reduce truck wait times for our clients while managing products in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner.
- Big Mountain Creek SWD: located close to Grande Prairie, Alberta, this facility is operated by SECURE to meet an increasing market demand for disposal services in the area. It was designed to accommodate an expansion and reduce truck wait times at SECURE's neighboring South Grande Prairie facility.
- Tulliby Lake FST: located northwest of Lloydminster, our first facility in the heavy oil corridor offers a full waste solution for heavy oil in Alberta.
- Rycroft FSR: SECURE`s first organically built FSR offers treating, storage, disposal and transloading services north of Grande Prairie.
- Kindersley FSR: Located near Kindersley, Saskatchewan, this facility transloads heavy and light crude via rail to end users which provides oil producers in the area an alternative shipping method to the Corporation`s pipeline connected Kindersley FST.
- SECURE expanded the existing 13 Mile SWD facility in North Dakota into a full service terminal. As a result, SECURE now operates three full service terminals in North Dakota.
- The OnSite Services division had individuals awarded the "Goalie of the Month" award from Shell Global for the 12th time; more than any other Shell contractor.
- SECURE partnered with the University of Calgary, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Alberta Environment and Parks to pilot technology to treat soils contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyl ("PCB"). Results of this pilot will be used to promote innovative ways of reclaiming and treating PCB contaminated soils.
- GenC: Caring for our Communities. Through this campaign 136 SECURE employees contributed 532 hours to volunteering with Calgary based charities in 2015.
- Our volunteer and donation efforts positively enriched over 40 communities through locally focused initiatives, contributing approximately $300,000 to local charities and organizations throughout our Canadian and U.S. operations.
Employees >1000
Facilities 35
- Opened a 7,000 sq. ft. state-of-the art laboratory that is staffed by an experienced team of Ph.D. chemists. This facility assists clients with technical challenges through simulations and testing, development of new products, and education sessions.
- Acquired Oilflow Solutions; thus expanding our drilling services division to include Completion Fluids, Production Chemicals and Chemical Enhance Oil Recovery.
- Expanded our service offering to include rail transloading infrastructure in several locations.
- The Edson, Alberta, Stanley and Keene, North Dakota standalone water disposal facilities were converted into Full Service Terminals.
- SECURE continues to grow its oilfield services throughout the entire life cycle of the well; from exploration, to production, through to final reclamation.
Employees >1000
Facilities 26
- SECURE adds the On-Site Services division with the acquisition of Frontline Integrated Services in April, 2013. SECURE now has three divisions: Processing, Recovery and Disposal, On-Site Services and Drilling Services.
- SECURE opens its first landfill in North Dakota, the 13 Mile Special Waste Landfill in November, 2013.
- SECURE completes two standalone water disposal facilities in North Dakota: Stanley and Keene in November, 2013.
- SECURE's Drilling Services Division acquires Target Rentals and the patented Dual Containment Horizontal Fluid Storage,Target TankTM, to its equipment rental services in July, 2013.
- Continued growth of Oil Based Mud blending facilities in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
- The Saddle Hills landfill was completed and opened in December, 2013.
- The Kindersley Full Service Terminal was completed and opened in December, 2013.
- The Kaybob standalone water disposal facility was completed and opened in August, 2013.
Employees 794
Facilities 20
- 1 new full service terminal, 2 new stand-alone disposal facilities and 1 new landfill.
- Imperial Drilling Fluids is added to the drilling services division providing drilling fluid services to the Denver-Julesburg basin in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska.
- SECURE begins operations in the USA with two stand-alone Water Disposal (SWD) facilities in North Dakota.
- The drilling services division acquires BITUDRIL™, a SAGD technology.
- The organization's first combined FST and Invert Blending facility is commissioned in Drayton Valley, AB as an integrated service facility.
- CleanSite™ is established providing Containerized Waste Bins & Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material management.
- SECURE reaches the $1 billion dollar market capitalization milestone.
Employees 504
Facilities 14
- 2 new full service terminals.
- SECURE acquires Marquis Alliance Energy Group & XL Fluid Systems and forms a drilling services division that includes drilling & completion fluids, solids control equipment & rentals and environmental services. These acquisitions add over 200 highly talented employees to the organization.
- SECURE enters the heavy oil market with the addition of the Silverdale facility in Saskatchewan, this is the first facility to use railways to transport crude oil to market.
- SECURE begins offering Frac Pond rentals as the foundation of an integrated water solutions program.
Employees 121
Facilities 12
- 1 new full service terminal and 1 new landfill.
- SECURE acquires Pembina Class I & II landfill, one of only two Class I landfills in Alberta.
- SECURE completes its initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:SES) 19,166,667 common shares at $3.00/share.
- Obed and South Grande Prairie facilities are upgraded from SWD's to FST's.
Employees 59
Facilities 9
- 1 new full service terminal and 2 new stand-alone water disposal facilities.
- SECURE builds an FST near Fox Creek, AB that would become the organization's busiest terminal for crude oil.
- SWD's continue to be commissioned for strong future development of FST's.
Employees 36
Facilities 7
- 2 new full service terminals, 3 new stand-alone water disposal facilities and 1 new landfill.
- LaGlace FST is SECURE's first pipeline connected facility.
- SECURE opens the first SWD facility as an efficient solution to fluids disposal with future potential to be upgraded into an FST (Emerson).
- SECURE closes its first asset acquisition by purchasing a facility near Fort Nelson, BC (Kotcho).
- A second landfill is opened at Willesden Green as SECURE expands its geographic footprint into South-Central Alberta.
Employees 16
Facilities 1
- 1 new landfill.
- SECURE Energy Services is incorporated.
- SECURE's first facility opens: South Grande Prairie Class II Oilfield Landfill.