Lakeside Steel Inc. announced that it reached a tentative agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers, Local 523 (”CAW Local Union”) representing about 400 employees of Lakeside Steel Corporation (”Lakeside”), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Lakeside Steel, for a three year term ending October 31, 2011.
The agreement is subject to approval by members of the CAW Local [...]

Northwest Pipe Company reported it was awarded a contract by the Greater Vancouver Water District of British Columbia for the Seymour and Capilano Filtration Twin Tunnels project. The Seymour and Capilano watersheds supply up to 70% of the Lower Mainland’s drinking water. Construction of new water supply and treatment facilities for these water sources is [...]

Jaguar Financial Corporation announced its intention to make an all cash offer (the “Offer”) to acquire up to 31,620,495 of the issued common shares (”Shares”) of Royal Laser Corp. (”Royal Laser”) at a cash price of $0.80 per Share which, when taken together with the Shares already owned by Jaguar, constitutes at least 50% of [...]

El Paso Corporation announced an expansion of the Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG) natural gas pipeline transmission system that serves the Raton Basin. CIG’s Raton Expansion will provide approximately 130 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of incremental firm capacity from the Las Animas County, Colo., area of the growing Raton Basin northward along the [...]

Northwest Pipe Company announced today its single largest order for its energy products. The Company received a $10.6 million order from a Houston-based distributor focused on serving the oil and gas industry. Approximately two thirds of the order will be put into use as gas gathering pipe in domestic gas fields. The final third will [...]