Few people embody the tension and different possibilities for the territory’s future like the two MLA candidates running in the riding of Frame Lake. Incumbent Kevin O’Reilly has spent his time as an MLA skeptical of multi-million dollar infrastructure projects geared towards attracting the extractive industry. His counterpart Dave Ramsay…
How important are the perceived effects of development on the land? That was one of the main questions at a public hearing on a possible change to Diavik mine’s closure plan. The project The mine is hoping to stuff 5 million cubic metres of processed kimberlite back into one of…
The federal government is investing in its “gateway to the North” says Minister of National Defence Harjit S. Sajjan. Sajjan was in Yellowknife on Wednesday to announce $150 million in funding over five years to extend the runway at Inuvik’s Mike Zubko Airport by more than 900 meters. The money…
Construction of the Tłı̨chǫ all-season road is officially underway. On Saturday, there was a groundbreaking ceremony in the community of Whatì, where the road will end once completed. The road will be a two-lane gravel highway branching off from Highway 3 west of Behchoko and will run about 97 kilometres….
The Slave Geological Province Corridor project got a financial boost this week. Transport Canada is giving $30 million and the Government of the Northwest Territories is adding another $10 million for environment regulation review and planning studies. The corridor is essentially a two-lane gravel road that would run from Yellowknife…
MP Michael McLeod announced a handful of clean technology projects in the territory that will be getting federal funding. The total dollar amount is $3.8 million dollars for six projects in the NWT. The largest portion, $2 million, is going to the University of British Columbia to develop carbon sequestration technology for…
Nineteen mining exploration projects recently got a helping hand from the Government of the Northwest Territories. The GNWT announced it handed out just under $1 million through its Mining Incentive Program this year. The majority of that money, about $800,000 went to mining corporations and the rest to individual prospectors….
The deal is done. First Air and Canadian North will merge into a single airline over the next two years. The new airline will continue to be known as Canadian North. First Air was owned by the Makivik Corporation, while Canadian North is owned by the Inuvilauit Regional Corporation. The…
Canada narrowly missed having Wood Buffalo National Park added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger. According to a Canadian Press story picked up by multiple Canadian news outlets, “the park’s status could be endangered because of impacts from hydro development in British Columbia and dozens of oilsands projects…
Two competing Indigenous groups are hoping to become the new owners of the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline. Project Reconciliation, which is made up of First Nations and Métis communities from Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan has recently said in a news release that it’s willing to purchase 51 per cent…