Quote:
Originally Posted by The Jabroni
I know it's all projected estimates (and you doing it for fun anyway), but frankly, I can't see Thompson cracking 14,000 again, based on the economic outlook of that city. The nickel smelting plant and one of the mines will be closed by 2021, and there will be at least 4,000 jobs gone, possibly more.
|
I think Stantec conducted some sort of population report for Thompson a few years back, and I think their higher estimates were around the 17,000 mark by 2036. I believe these were based on upgrades to its Wastewater plant, which doesn't sound like something that could sustain growth. It seems useless trying to estimate the population projections in any northern community, sometimes they shrink dramatically between censuses and other times they post a healthy growth.
Do you think climate change will have positive (or negative) growth effects on some of these northern communities in the next few decades?