MLS of tugboats stuck in ice. Various LSs of new buildings, much snow in evidence. Cuts to valves, small pipes, an oil drum in the snow. LSs of Norman Wells oil refinery in the Northwest Territories, buildings silhouetted against low sun, much vapour billowing up into the air. Shots, from various distances, of large mass of ice formed around an outlet of some kind, vapour rising from outlet. LS of temporary camps. A Nodwell tracked carrier moving towards and past the camera. Shots of man cutting steel plate with acetylene torch near one of the buildings.