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says Burkard. “Sometimes our customers didn’t know that the people they were working with and the services they were receiving were part of the same company because we were branded differently. So, Tervita was the result of taking those 12 smaller, independent divisions of CCS and renaming and rebranding as Tervita –one new company but with all the same people, the same services, and the same offerings.” The name Tervita comes from the Latin words terra, meaning earth, and vita, meaning life. Together they signify a dynamic brand, commit- ted to safety, efficiency, and regulatory steward- ship while minimizing impact and maximizing returns for clients and partners. Today, Tervita has over 1,000 employees and does most of its business in the WCSB– the Western Ca- nadian Sedimentary Basin. The WCSB under- lies 540,000 square miles of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia, and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories. It consists of a massive wedge of sedimentary rock extending from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Canadian Shield in the east. The WCSB contains one of the world’s largest reserves of petroleum and natural gas and supplies much of the North servicing oil and gas wells in northern Alberta. In 1984, Canadian Crude Separators (CCS) was developed in order to provide custom emulsion treating services for the company’s oil produc- ing clients. “Most of the time, oil production is in the form of emulsion and needs to be further processed to be refining/pipeline quality,” ex- plains Duane Burkard, Tervita’s Vice President of Energy Services. “It contains saline water and potentially other particulates and contaminants. So, it needs to be treated to meet the refiners’ specifications. Producers didn’t always have their own facilities in place to treat their emul- sion. So there was a need for a third party, such as CCS, to provide that service.” Over the next several years, the company grew both organically and by acquisition, devel- oping new technologies, offering more services, and expanding its geographic footprint. “Up un- til 2012, through acquisition and building other businesses, we had 12 branded companies,” TERVITA CORPORATION