16A PEACE POWER SOUVENIR EDITION Wednesday, September 25, 1968 ts great to Serve All of Canada is watchin g your growth. With your new sources of power, will come new payrolls, new communities, new faces, a whole new future. Everything’s up in the Interior. And we're proud to have played a part. CPA routes—established years ago— serve all of the population centres of the Upper Mainland. Routes that give easy access to neighbouring towns—and to Vancouver where you can make prompt connections across Canada or to foreign lands on any of five | continents, Yes, we're proud to have had a role in your becoming a ‘powerhouse’. And proud, too, to announce that we'll soon be serving you with glistening new Boeing 737 jets. PA CIFIC AIRLINE: s ‘powerhouse CANADIAN | POWERHOUSE FACTS — Portage Mountain Generating Station: Located in bedrock 500 feet beneath east creat of W. A. C. Bennett Dam. Length: 890 feet Width: 67 feet Height: 153 feet. Generator tating: 227,000 kilowatts Turbine rating: 310,000 horsepower Ultimate generating capacity (10 units): 2. 3 million kilowatts Manifold surge chambers (2): Length: 330 feet © Width: Tailrace tunnels (2): 67 feet Height: 108 feet Length: 1,330 feet; (1) Width: 48 feet; Height: 66 feet. 1,880 feet (2), W. A. C. Bennett Dam: Length: 14 miles Width: % mile (at base) Height: 600 feet Volume: 57.2 million cubic-yards of fill (100 million tons) Crest elevation: 2,230 feet above sea level Spillway: Overall length: 2,800 feet Length of discharge channel, chute and bucket: 2,300 feet Width of discharge channel: 100 feet Distance from riverbed to foot of discharge channel: 250 feet Alcan Power Boosts B.C. Hydro Output Tn addition to supplying alum- inum conductor cable for the Peace project, Alcan also sup- plies B.C, Hydro with consider- able quantities of electrical pow= er. Alcan has undertaken to allo« cate some of the power produc- ad at its Kemano powerhouse to B.C. Hydro until such time as the transmission lines and dis- tribution facilities for use of Peace power are built west from Prince George as far as Ter= race, In 50 doing, Alcan has once again contributed to the econo- mic health of B,C, Making the power available now has enabled earlier development of numer- ous enterprises in the northwest part of the province, An excellent example of this may be found in the start of oper= ‘|ations of B,C, Molybdenum’s new mit], located in Alice Arm, Not only is Aleanpower play ing an important part in the project, Alcan aluminum 1s much in evi- dence and Alcan’s technical know-how also made a major contribution, Construction of the 91-mile~ Jong transmission line between Terrace and the B, C, Molyb- denvm operation at Alice Arm chalked up at least two ‘firsts’? for British Columbia, and what is believed to be a world’s record, as well. Conpleted in a little over half a year, the new transmission line is; ® The first in British Colum- bia to employ lghtweight alum- inum towers throughout, @ The first in British Colum- bia on which helicopters have been used for tower erection along an entire route. Helicopters set down 625 pre- fabricated, rust-proof towers on the line, The towers, developed by the Aluminum Company of Canada in Newfoundland and first used there, weigh 876 to 1,175 pounds, less than half the weight of comparable steel structures, In the helicopter operation the lightweight towers were erected four to five times as quickly as is possible with steel towers, and on one stretch of the line, at the south entrance to the Nass River Valley, workmen set 68 of them in one day — which ene gineers believe is a world rece ord, The $3.3 million line carries power purchased by B, C, Hydro from Alcan’s Kitimat - Kemano system was energized initialiy at 60,000 volts, but will be step- ped up to the full 138 ky capacity later as demand increases in the heavily-mineralized region, This 500,000 volt transmission line extending from Peace Project to the lower mainland forms backbone of provincial Peace Cable Totals 14,000 Miles Some 14,400 miles of cable will eventually carry Peace power through BritishColum- bia The conductor, specially bullt of aluminum from Kitl- mat around steel cores for strength, is contained in the two Lines — one complete, the other under way— leading from the damsite to the low- er mainiand, The conductor was fabri- cated in the Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd,’s own plant at Richmond and by Canadian Wire at Prince George, COST, WEIGHT Alean officials acknow- ledge that to the layman cop- per Js the sstandard metal for power transmission, But the — eost and weight factors are sufficiently good for alumin- um to make up for the fact that its’ conductivity is less than copper’s, The transmission lines each cover approximately 685 ground miles on their way south, The much greater length of the transmission “line” resuls trom the fact that it is not one line but twelve, TOTAL WEIGHT For the ‘‘line’ is what is called three phase, with four conductors of .95 inches in di- ameter per phase, ‘ Each phase consists offour lines bundled together by what are called ‘spacer damper's’* Total weight of the Line is 733 pounds for 1,000 feet, In one circuit mile there is ap- proximately 23,5 tons of con- ductor in this 500 KV line, Its tensile strength is 1% B50 pounds per square C. e ECIAL SE LIVERY Equipment Yard In Prince George, Schulman Electric Ltd. International. - P.O. Box 1269, Prince George, BC, A Subsidiary of FISCHBACH & MOORE of CANADA LTD.. ben of PEACE Power into British Columbia, along conductors & strung by us, transmission line No. 1, sections 2,5 and 6. CONGRATULATIONS B.C. Hydro. & Power Authority o on the Official © Start-Up of Peace Power. Another important milestone for British Colum- bians and Canada. “1 | throughout “Western. Canada .as power network. Photo clearly shows line's threa phases, with four conductors per phase. All of the aluminum in the overhead cables came from Alcan’s Kitimat smelter, Second largest aluminum smelter in the world, Alcan's Kitimat Works has been pro- ducing aluminum since 1954, . Today it has the capacity to produca 260,000 tons ofalum- inum ingot annually. The . Kitimat smelter and Kemano hydro-electric pro- ject represents an investment in excess of $470 million to date — the largest industrial financial and engineering project ever undertaken by . private enterprise in Canada, INVESTMENT Tangled underbush, forbid- ding forests and stlow- clad mountains confronted the en- gineers whe inspected the site where Kitimat Works now stands, ’ Back in 1948, Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited (Alcan) surveyadthe Kitimat- Kemano area, at the invitation of the British Columbia gov- ernment, toassess Its potentia as an aluminum smelter site. | ernment to assess its poten- Hal as an aluminum smelter site, Needed were an abun- dant supply of hydro electric power, a deep water port with access to the Pacific Ocean, and an area large enough fora smelter capable of eventually " producing. 550, 000 tons ofalu- minum annually, Sufficient land also wasre- quired to provide for large and expanding industrial, resi- dential and commerclalareas, PART OF 8.C. Many of the developments which followed in -what was _ then a widlernass, 400 miles. northest of Vancouver, on the British Columbla coastline at’ the head of a long fiord — Douglas Channel ~~ 80-miles’ distant from the open sea, are now an integral part of B,C,’s industrial life: . Kenney Dam, which creat- ed a 358-square-mile reser- voir: the drilling of a 10-mile water tunnel through solid rock; the construction of Kemano powerhouse inside a — mountain with a present-day. planned capacity of 896,000 KW (1,200,000 h.p.} (ultimate capacity of the power plant js 1,800,000 KW, or 2,400,000 hp.) the erection of an alu- minum transmission line over. 51 miles of rugged mountainous terrain; the building :of an aluminum smelter, which is already tha- world's "second largest, and lastly, the initiation of and Participation in the develop- ment of the Kitimat and Kee mano communities, Specialized Machine Makes Peace Cables. Advanced cable stranding machines valued at half a million dollars have been installed at Alcan’s Vancouver Works, located in Richmond, B.C. Dr. H. Keenleyside and Dr. Gordon M, Shrum, B.C. Hydro Co-Chairmen, pressed the “start buttons July 13th, 1967, to officially set the machines i in motion. The stranding “machines were manufactured by the world fa- mous Friedrich Krupp Company in West Germany. They are the ° first of their kind to-be installed in Canada, One {5 a 30 bobbin machine and the other . isa 7 bobbin machine, 7m WORKS FAST ‘ The larger 30 bobbin machine is capable of stranding high quality alumimim ‘conductor at speeds up to 280 rpm. Each bobbin. can hold up to 460 pounds of aluminum wire, ‘This enables the wire strander to produce faster and for tonger perlods between reloadings, , - The ‘capacity and speed are believed to exceed all other ma- chines used for this purpose in | Canada, making it possible to supply longer lengths: of cable for customers. The 7-bobbin machine js a tu- bular strander which can strand either steel or aluminum cable at speeds up to 800 r.p.m, Ibis ~ the firat of its kind ever Bro- duced. by. Krupp, 2 AN additional: ‘Waterbury: ‘Fars: [| Fel Wwire® drawing: machine’ has | ‘also ‘bean installed in the: van couver ‘plant to feed the two new -stranding, machines, “200. PER. CENT “The naw equizinent: a@ipands Als : ican’s. _B.G,' = based dcable: Making capacity. nearly: 200: per: “cants|: ‘Vand: will: enable’ the ‘company’ to better meet the crowing demands for - electrical: conductor ‘cable well as the export markets,’ Alcan’s Vancouver‘ plant ig ‘a | |: prime! supplier. of electrical can= || ductor rod sand finished conduic~ ‘tor ‘cable. for’ the Peace: River and other Bc, Hydro projects, With this. machinery He new be / . KINGSMIL “4a. Alcan GM, of high strength alloy aluminum cable can now be made which # was. ‘not: previously” produced’ in ff ‘Western Canadas: | ‘The plant uses: ‘jluinanaim tram | ‘Atean’s; ‘Kitimat: ‘smelter to pro= ; duce a:wide range of extrusions as well-as electrical andconduc- 4 tor cable, “It also does ‘custom | anod dling : for Vancouver manu facturors;:. .. ? The. "plant: ‘employs 126 people and: is tha largebt:unit in Alcan’s Western: ‘Manufacturing Diviston headed. by. General Manager 3h My Ge » Keingerit ai