We will be shutting down our plant today and then mothballing and winterizing it. Most people will be leaving in December, some in January, and some a few months later. It has been a fun 30+ years of work. I guess we are a victim of "peak oil" or more correctly peak gas since there is not enough gas for us(Agrium), the LNG plant next door, and all the houses on the Kenai peninsula and in Anchorage. At the peak we all used about a third of the available gas each. Ironically when I first came to Alaska on 'Bertha' the bus we went to visit the ocean down a road by the two tanks on the left. That was in 1968 and our plant, in the foreground, was brand new then. Could this really be retirement???
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Closing the Plant
We will be shutting down our plant today and then mothballing and winterizing it. Most people will be leaving in December, some in January, and some a few months later. It has been a fun 30+ years of work. I guess we are a victim of "peak oil" or more correctly peak gas since there is not enough gas for us(Agrium), the LNG plant next door, and all the houses on the Kenai peninsula and in Anchorage. At the peak we all used about a third of the available gas each. Ironically when I first came to Alaska on 'Bertha' the bus we went to visit the ocean down a road by the two tanks on the left. That was in 1968 and our plant, in the foreground, was brand new then. Could this really be retirement???
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Are you retired now Mark? Tom
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