Are AMEC engineers paid comparative salaries to Teck Cominco?
We don’t want to lose people to Teck Cominco or any other engineering entity and we must compete for people with the Alberta market. We try to make sure we’re at par or better than the competition so there’s less incentive for people to leave. It costs us a lot of money to hire and train people. 14. Does the community appreciate the value of your enterprise? I think they’re starting to; we are doing our best to educate them. There was a period when people here didn’t know who AMEC was, but we’re now getting some recognition. I doubt most know we’re part of an organization of 45,000 people, not just an office in downtown Trail. We are getting some high profile projects locally and around the world and people should know about that. 15. What roadblocks, if any, has AMEC faced? It is tough to get people to spend money when they don’t have it, poor metals markets etc. Some organizations are set in their ways and have favoured service providers; that can be an impediment. The intensity of a
