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Home: Mining News & Resources Search Mining News: Mining News | Submit Mining Press Release | ek pass enters into multi-year agreement with Alberta County (EMAILWIRE.COM, January 14, 2010 ) Austin, TX - ek pass, a global training and consulting firm, is pleased to announce it has entered into a long term agreement with Mountain View County, located in the heart of Alberta's Calgary-Edmonton corridor. ek pass will be providing training to the County's heavy equipment operators on an ongoing basis to assist them with their training strategy. In an industry where there must be continual regard for the safety of the public, care, maintenance and operation of equipment, and productivity on the job, mobile equipment operators must have the skill, professionalism, and ability to safely operate equipment in many different environments. This includes locations from city streets and rural areas to airports. ek pass will be training mobile equipment operators for Mountain View County on many types of equipment from the pre-employment screening process to refresher training. Many contractors, both civilian and military, turn to ek pass for their equipment operator training and consulting needs. With offices in the United States and Canada, ek pass is an international training and consulting firm that specializes in training operators on a variety of mobile equipment. In addition to a myriad of civilian clients, the company has provided the US Navy, the United States Marine Corps and other branches of the military with professional instructor-led training. These seasoned, certified instructors have provided services at over 170 locations world-wide. Through a combination of classroom and on-site, hands-on instruction, ek pass prepares its students for work in a variety of industries that involve the operation of mobile equipment, from Mining and Military to Construction, Pipeline, Agriculture and Forestry. Training is customized to meet the specific needs of its clients. Through specialized training and calculating projected return on investment, clients have reported a reduction in operating costs in excess of millions of dollars each year through improved safety, productivity and lowered maintenance costs. To date ek pass has provided training on heavy equipment from over 100 manufacturers. ek pass Michael Ardron 1-800-638-9524 michael.ardron@ekpass.com Source: EmailWire.Com

Mining Headline News Yahoo! News Search Results for Mining Yahoo! News Search Results for Mining Mining activists demand WVU, Nike pull new uniform ad 3 Sep 2010 at 5:58pm Activists trying to stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia are furious over a Nike Inc. promotional ad for a new West Virginia football uniform designed in tribute to the 29 victims of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion. West Virginia - Nike - Mountaintop removal mining - Coal mining - Mining Mining company to clean polluted beach in Wash. 3 Sep 2010 at 11:36am A Canadian mining company will begin cleaning up a beach on Lake Roosevelt later this month in a show of good faith over efforts to deal with pollution that flowed for a century from a British Columbia smelter into the U.S. Mining execs expect to rake in bonuses in 2010 4 Sep 2010 at 3:01am Canadian mining company executives are looking forward to a bonanza year in 2010, with cash bonuses surging thanks to higher commodity prices, a survey found. Payouts will go from 61% of salary in 2009 to 88% in 2010, according to Coopers Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers.[...] Mining resumes at Mt Lyell 2 Sep 2010 at 7:14pm Mining operations have resumed at Mt Lyell copper mine, Queenstown. Mining Services Company Looking at Virginia 3 Sep 2010 at 5:58am Another mining services company is considering Virginia as a place to build. Virginia city officials said that the company is based in Milwaukee, and that they're looking at the land north of town near the Minorca Mine haul road. Mining policy hampers Aquino?s efforts to tread the ?right path? 4 Sep 2010 at 2:57am A group of environmental organizations is urging President Aquino to revoke the government?s mining policy because it weighs down on administration?s efforts to tread on tuwid na daan (right path). Mining investors assured 4 Sep 2010 at 3:52am The government assured investors it will continue to protect investments in the Philippines, including those in the mining industry. Mining activists demand WVU, Nike pull uniform ad 2 Sep 2010 at 10:49am Activists trying to stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia are furious over a Nike Inc. promotional ad for a new West Virginia football uniform designed in tribute to the 29 victims of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion. 39 mining firms lose stockyard licence 4 Sep 2010 at 6:16pm The special team set up to curb illegal mining in Bellary has cancelled stockyard licences of 39 mining firms. Philex Mining interested in Tampakan mine project 3 Sep 2010 at 8:51am Philex Mining Corp., controlled by Manuel Pangilinan, is studying an investment into the $5-billion Tampakan project in the Philippines two months after a Chinese proposal was pulled. Philex is ?constantly looking at all investment opportunities and projects that it may be able to enter into,? Philex President Jose Ernesto Villaluna said in a regulatory filing. ?Tampakan is one such possibility ...

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