Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation.

• Position: Hazardous management firm - Company Profile

Cleaning up Alaska's contaminated sites means working in rough weather and remote, fragile environments. Such efforts require diverse skills, innovative remediation technologies and a vast knowledge of and commitment to the state.

Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation offers these strengths. "We are veterans in Alaska cleanups, and our employees have worked in Alaska for years," says Eric Yould, Manager of Alaska Operations. "With our Alaska presence and reputation as one of the world's most diverse and versatile hazardous waste remediation firms, we are working to help Alaska achieve its cleanup goals."

Strength and Diversity

Foster Wheeler Environmental has spent more than 20 years applying environmental solutions throughout Alaska. This experience ranges from assessing the environmental impacts of the proposed Susitna Hydroelectric Project to building the Red Dog Mine Road near Kotzebue and remediating hazardous waste at remote sites from Adak to Deadhorse.

To its existing Alaska skill base, Foster Wheeler brings the added strength of its international expertise, which includes over 1,800 skilled professionals in environmental services and is augmented by more than a century of innovation and dependability in engineering, construction, equipment manufacturing and project development of the 12,000 people in the Foster Wheeler Corporation.

"Foster Wheeler Environmental offers both management and technical skills, from complex scientific and engineering capabilities to managing remediation crews in the field," says Yould. "This diversity is critical for working in Alaska's remote, fragile environment."

Versatile, Cost-Effective

At its multiple remediation sites from Southeast to the North Slope, Foster Wheeler Environmental is proving - time and again - that it can deliver cost-effective, innovative cleanup strategies.

For example, at the logistically challenging Cape Prince of Wales, on the tip of the Seward Peninsula, Foster Wheeler Environmental moved out 45 tons of...