[Newsbot]

Title: The Northwest Passage and Canada's unfulfilled northern potential
Category: Business
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2013-09-27 12:31:49
Canadian

[Jabberwalker]

Building shipping infrastructure in the Northwest Passage would be an admission that the place is warming up. The Fat Controller of the Oil Patch would never allow that to happen. It's far better to surround yourself with pseudo-scientist yes-men who will convince you that it's all going to freeze over again, soon.

[bootlegga]

$1:

The Harper government laid out a northern strategy in 2007 that promised six to eight new armed icebreakers and a new deep-water port to service them. But funding for the ships has been delayed, and plans for the northern port were scaled back this year to a more modest refuelling station. A separate project announced in 2006 to purchase new search-and-rescue aircraft has also stalled.

That's a big part of the problem there. We should have used the stimulus to fund some of these items...

[Hyack]

I'm sure Canada will make sure to have the proper authorities on hand to enforce all rules and regulations pertaining to the use of Canada's portion of the Northwest Passage. The only problem is.......will he be able to catch them, and if so ....how does he get them to pull over??

[herbie]

More to the point as the first 90% are going to be oil tankers going from Alaska's North Slope to refineries on the US Eastern Seaboard, and since 1812 the USA says its ships go wherever they declare is open waters or you get shit kicked, who's got the GUTS to do anything?
Other than negotiate some deal they have to stop and load up some of our oil as a sort of toll?
Or perhaps: you guys supply us a handful of ships to enforce things, don't declare the NWP as international waters and we grant an eternal NAFTA exemption to US vessels using our passage?
Really guys, we don't even have ONE destroyer on the Pacific Coast and we expect these guys to DO something about the Arctic? Harper's blowhards? They only TALK the military talk they've DONE nothing!