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Company newsNew multi-year locate contracts across Alberta
Calgary, southern Alberta, and northeast Alberta, with the utilities named in each contract area.
Company newsTierra Geomatic wins the EPCOR locates contract for Edmonton
CLI's sister company takes on a long-term utility locates contract for the City of Edmonton.
CommunityCLI sponsors the first USP golf tournament
The Utility Safety Partners tournament in Calgary raised $10,000 for the BC and Alberta Guide Dogs charity.
Field guideWhat the paint colours mean before you dig
Red, yellow, orange, blue: the uniform colour code that tells a crew what is underneath the mark.
Field guideWhat to have ready before you request a locate
Three details move a locate request forward, and a missing one is the most common delay.
OperationsCleared or locate required: how ticket clearing decides
Buffer-zone rules, a trained reviewer, and a monthly record the network owner can check.Case studies
Documented project scope.
Each case is backed by Locatorbase records. Client names appear only where the client has cleared them.
Municipal · Ontario
Loyalist Township
A multi-year municipal locating contract covering water, sanitary, storm, streetlight, traffic, and municipal property scope, with requests flowing from Ontario One Call into Locatorbase.
View municipal locatingConsortium · Alberta
City of Calgary takeover
Took over a major city contract from the incumbent provider in March 2023, hired about 50 field staff, and lifted on-time completion from 96.95% to 99.57% across 70,000+ tickets a year. Renewed in 2026 for 3 years plus two 1-year options.
Consortium · Alberta
Calgary fringe
South of Calgary to Lethbridge and Brooks. 33,314 tickets completed in 2025 at 99.57% on-time completion, including a surge response to an unannounced fibre project in Brooks.
ALP · Alberta
ALP fibre program
More than 3,200 ALP tickets completed across High River, Strathmore, and Calgary fibre projects since 2025, with one recorded damage for which CLI was absolved of liability.
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