Sault Ste. Marie

By Ian Ross A multitude of business and trade opportunities exist with air cargo, according to a preliminary draft of a logistic consultant's study on the Sault's transpolar initiative.

A Sault St. Marie industrial manufacturing plant, named one of the top polluters in the province, has cleaned up its act. Praxair recorded 13 provincial wastewater discharge violations in 2000, down from 35 the previous year.

Finding ways to improve air service to the Superior East region is the aim of a $20,000 contribution by FedNor to hire a consultant to study the air industry in rural and remote communities.

Steel producers and union officials met with senior government officials in Ottawa March 20 to present their case for safeguards against a potential flood of cheap foreign steel being diverted from the U.S. market. The coalition, led by Sault Ste.

Sault Ste. Marie MP Carmen Provenzano is helping shape a community proposal to restore locally produced TV programming to the city.

A two-year-old program to convert a waste product into a saleable item has garnered Algoma Steel a global award for its slag granulating process. The Sault Ste.

Sault College's new $350,000 aviation pilot training facilities opened in March and include two state-of-the-art flight simulators. The new program facility is part of a $4-million renovation effort at the institute.

By Michael Lynch Heinz Rilling is a happy man when it snows in Marathon. "This winter has been brutal," says Rilling, owner of Marathon Motors Sports. His livelihood is dependent on snow, and lots of it.

Outraged Greenstone ratepayers will have to wait two more years before they can do anything to dissolve their municipality. Some business owners who have received hefty tax increases are beginning to organize.

By Michael Lynch Greenstone Mayor Charles Primeau wants to see a green industrial park developed in the former town of Longlac, located 400 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay.