Most of the firm’s work is dredging and diving to maintain tailings ponds and facilities in northern Alberta’s oilsands, but the approximately 100 employees are also found in such places as Manitoba, Yukon and Brazil.Ĭaleb Dyck, Canada Pump’s research and development lead, recently returned from 2-1/2 months in the Northwest Territories working on pumps keeping water away from the Diavik diamond mine at Lac de Gras.ĭyck thinks their Mighty Dredge is the first fully automated machine of its type. Article content Jeremy Leonard, owner of Canada Pump and Power, at the Ardrossan-area property where the company headquarters are located as well as one of his homes. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

In 2010, Leonard started Canada Pump and Power on his large rural property near Ardrossan, 40 km east of Edmonton, where a beautiful home with a window wall overlooks the head office, work space and a 3.6-hectare lake used to test equipment. He has a home at Kailua-Kona on Hawaii’s Big Island and, not wanting to retire, formed a new company, Pacific Pump and Power. He sold his first company, Northern Underwater Systems, in 2005. One of his most exciting assignments was diving under the Beaufort Sea in the 1980s to help clear ice off drilling ships and guide them into a giant floating drydock. Leonard, 57, has worked in the commercial diving and dredging field since the 1970s. “(They) left it to the government to worry about a pond filled with arsenic or a pond filled with other toxic waste that’s now leaching into the ground … There are ponds in the older parts of Eastern Europe that are actually contaminated with nuclear waste, and they’re not being cleaned up.”

“Our federal government is spending great deals of money just planning how to clean up leftover tailings ponds that are the result of mines and operations that have gone bankrupt,” he said. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.

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