Five power plant buildings scheduled for demolition in Canada.
Epcor plans to start demolishing five of the 10 former Rossdale power plant buildings this summer as it continues to look at what else can be done with the area.
Work will start inside the 1960s-era structures before they’re torn down in 2011, creating a nearly one-hectare public green space along the North Saskatchewan River, says Geoff Wagner, Epcor’s director of Rossdale decommissioning.
“They have really reached the end of their useful life,” he said Friday.
“We have committed to our community that we’re not going to bring power generation back to this site, so the buildings have no use.”
The project, which will employ up to 30 people, is scheduled to wrap up with grading in the summer of 2012.
An archeologist will be on hand during excavations in an area used for centuries by aboriginal groups and Europeans.
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