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American market. It also has huge reserves of coal. Of the provinces and territories within the WCSB, Alberta has most of the oil and gas reserves and almost all of the oil sands. “We’re structured into two divisions,” says Burkard, explaining Tervita’s current makeup. “We have an Energy Services division and that mainly targets the oil and gas generators on their upstream operations – their drilling and completion activities, their production activities, right up to the refinery door. That is our largest division and the core of the company.Within Energy Services we have the Waste Processing group, which includes industrial landfills, and cavern facilities, as well as treatment recovery disposal facilities that process emulsion and oil field waste.We also have an Energy Marketing arm that markets oil to refiners on behalf of customers. “Our other division is the Industrial Services division. It’s typically a downstream TERVITA CORPORATION service provider and the business units within that division provide reclamation and resto- ration work. There is a Metals Recycling group that handles scrap iron and metal recycling, a Waste Services group, and an Environmental Services team, all of which offer services to both upstream and downstream producers in the WCSB area.” In a competitive industry, Burkard believes that Tervita has several advantages. “Number one is our geographic location,” he states. “We position our facilities and our service offerings in the same core areas in the WCSB as our customers/producers do. So, we’re close to their operations. Transportation is a big component in their cost of dealing with their oilfield by- products; being close to the core of their opera- tions is a competitive advantage. “The second advantage is that we were one of the first ones in the business.We have a lot