In his article, Try Nunavut, Manitoba firms told (May 26), Martin Cash reports on a Manitoba trade mission to Nunavut earlier this month, and how it has already paid dividends to some participants. His assertion that while Quebec-based business have snared a substantial part of the growing trade with the eastern part of the territory, there is a natural affinity between the Kivalliq Region immediately north of Manitoba is absolutely correct. That is why Manitoba, Nunavut and the Kivalliq Inuit Association, with the support of the federal government, have for past few years been planning an all-weather road linking Thompson with the Kivalliq coastal communities of Arviat, Whale Cove and Rankin Inlet, the unofficial capital of the region. When I was last involved with the project, the Man...
... to entry into the business of transporting goods north, and shipping natural resources and anny developing industrial products south. Surface transport today is by rail to Churchill, and by se...
In some ways, the airlines are an odd target for greens. They produce only around three per cent of the world's man-made carbon emissions. Surface transport, by contrast, produces 22 per cent. Europe's merchant ships spew out around a third more carbon than aircraft do, and nobody is going after them. What's more, many air travellers cannot easily switch. Car drivers can hop on the train or the bus, but transatlantic travellers can't row from London to New York. Nor can aircraft fuel be swapped for a green alternative. Car drivers can buy electro-petrol hybrids but aircraft are, for now, stuck with kerosene, because its energy-density makes it the only practical fuel to carry around in the air. Europe's ETS has many obvious flaws. Given that it is the world's first serious attempt to cu...
The same notion of nation-building was evoked recently by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to Iqaluit, Nunavut, and his tour of the northern territories. There, economic development is impeded by the distance to markets and the limitations of the current modes of transport. A trip to Iqaluit has a salutary effect on one's perception of the challenges of economic development in the North. A flight from Winnipeg to Ottawa is shorter than the flight from Iqaluit to either Ottawa or Winnipeg. Virtually all the territory below these flight paths has no permanent surface transport infrastructure. In politics and business, timing is everything. The railways were not the instant success that many might assume. The economics of railways demanded that locomotives pull at least five cars, oth...
Airships are more fuel-efficient than airplanes, and faster than surface transport. Helium gas provides the lift so the engines only have to push the vehicle through the air. Airships could carry loads greater than trucks, accommodate oversized equipment, and operate throughout the year at affordable costs. Airships accommodate alternative fuels more easily than other vehicles. Space allows either methane or hydrogen to be carried at low pressures. High-altitude airships are being designed for solar power because of the large area available for collectors. Eventually, solar collectors could be adapted to cargo airships, too. The world has a tremendous need for airships. Over 70 per cent of Canada's land mass has no permanent roads. Continuing with the status quo is to leave the remote n...
The plan calls for boosting the number of regular and reserve troops and moving ahead with replacement of the military's fighter jets, surface combat ships, maritime patrol vessels, transport helicopters, armoured vehicles, helicopters and fixed-wing search-and-rescue aircraft -- among...
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Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mining, and Sustainable Development Taking Harper's and the World Bank's positions together as representative of the current dominant view of the role of foreign direct investment in mining in Latin America, we must ask under what conditions mining activity might contribute to poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Harper points to the world-class corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of Canadian mining companies, along with the Canadian government's National Roundtable report on CSR and the Extractive Sector in Developing Nations (Interview, 2007) and the World Bank's Extractive Industries Review (EIR) points to the enabling conditions of "pro-poor public and corporate governance," "effective social and envir...
..., and any living occupants to access sub-surface mineral deposits, often reaching to great depths. ... extraction processes require the transport and use of corrosive and toxic chemicals which, if...
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