The Territories: Developments - Page 20

Airboy · #**381** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 3:47 AM**

I expect it as well.

MalcolmTucker · #**382** Posted **Feb 11, 2016, 4:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by blacktrojan3921

Seriously? An MRI machine costs $3-5 million at most. I think it is fair to say that the NWT can afford to get an MRI within the decade, or at least have a rich philanthropist donate a few million dollars to the hospital.

It isn't just the machine, it is the ecosystem of techs and specialists to take proper advantage of it. Plus, you'll have to maintain your flight system in top notch condition as machines don't have 100% uptime.

eemy · #**383** Posted **Feb 12, 2016, 3:01 AM**

I believe MRIs also rely on a supply of liquid helium to cool the magnets in the machine. I can't imagine there's a local supplier and it can't be cheap to ship it that far north.

RueBulmer · #**384** Posted **Feb 13, 2016, 1:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by jeremy_haak

I believe MRIs also rely on a supply of liquid helium to cool the magnets in the machine. I can't imagine there's a local supplier and it can't be cheap to ship it that far north.

Suddenly it all falls into place. I wonder how much that adds to the cost.

scryer · #**385** Posted **Feb 13, 2016, 8:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by jeremy_haak

I believe MRIs also rely on a supply of liquid helium to cool the magnets in the machine. I can't imagine there's a local supplier and it can't be cheap to ship it that far north.

Goddamn, just throw it outside in the snow like a beer!

Jokes aside, I never knew that. With the whole techs and specialist point mentioned before; wouldn't that create more diverse job opportunities in the north? Is a diverse work force being demanded?

theman23 · #**386** Posted **Mar 17, 2016, 2:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by scryer

Goddamn, just throw it outside in the snow like a beer!

Jokes aside, I never knew that. With the whole techs and specialist point mentioned before; wouldn't that create more diverse job opportunities in the north? Is a diverse work force being demanded?

For one, its an MRI machine. These aren't job creators any more than shipping in an oven creates cooking jobs. You need patient volumes to justify having an MRI machine, and it looks like the YK could not justify it.

Secondly, there are plenty of job opportunities up in the north. What it lacks is people. And without people, you aren't going to get the specialists that tend to order MRIs often. Their clinics would be empty most days.

Airboy · #**387** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 4:22 PM**

This could benefit a large swath of Western Canada. However the anti fracking groups are already putting up a strong defense.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...-nwt-1.3494985

scryer · #**388** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 6:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Airboy

This could benefit a large swath of Western Canada. However the anti fracking groups are already putting up a strong defense.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...-nwt-1.3494985

Wow. I'm all for working new natural resources but it needs to be done in a more sustainable way. If only there was another method or a more sustainable method to fracking.

MalcolmTucker · #**389** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 7:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by scryer

Wow. I'm all for working new natural resources but it needs to be done in a more sustainable way. If only there was another method or a more sustainable method to fracking.

You can frack with very little water depending on the reservoir characteristics. You can also tap saline watet from underground and move it instead of using fresh. Not that I think it is a bad thing to use fresh water, the volumes are pretty small compared to river flows. The average in the USA is 9.6 million gallons of water per well. 36,339.95m³. The Yukon River at Whitehorse (far away, but a source of comparison people may be able to relate to) has flows of an average 243 m³/second, 646 m³/second (highest),32.6 m³/second (lowest).

Average water per well:

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Examples of average reported water usage per well include:
Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, 4.5 million gallons (Risser, 2012, USGS Public Lecture, "Shale gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, and Induced Earthquakes")
Wattenburg Sandstone, Colorado, 2.7 million gallons (Goodwin and others, 2012, Oil and Gas Journal)
Barnett Shale, Texas, 2.8 million gallons (Nicot and Scanlon, 2012, Environmental Science and Technology)
Eagle Ford Shale, Texas, 4.3 million gallons (Nicot and Scanlon, 2012, Environmental Science and Technology)
Haynesville Shale, Texas, 5.7 million gallons (Nicot and Scanlon, 2012, Environmental Science and Technology)
Bakken Formation, North Dakota, 1.5 million gallons (S. Haines, 2012, USGS personal communication)
Horn River Shale, British Columbia, Canada, 15.8 million gallons (Horn River Basin Producers Group, 2010).

Airboy · #**390** Posted **Mar 29, 2016, 5:28 PM**

These need to be prioritized since these are the highways of the north.
And having flown into most of these locations upgrades to the runways and signaling are a necessity.

The only place for the Pang runway is on top of the mountain.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...airs-1.3508238

Acajack · #**391** Posted **Apr 18, 2016, 12:57 AM**

There is an actual person who works in real estate in Ottawa whose name is Anita Hoare.

I will try to find a pic of a sign.

BIMBAM · #**392** Posted **May 3, 2016, 10:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

There is an actual person who works in real estate in Ottawa whose name is Anita Hoare.

I will try to find a pic of a sign.

Yikes, I googled her because I thought she might have been someone I went to pre-school with, my mother told me about a girl with that name and about how her parents thought it was the most funny thing in the world to name her that. What I found, however, were multiple stories about how the son of this much-older-than-I realtor tried to kill his wife!

http://www.orleansonline.ca/pages/N2014040402.htm
https://cbsmix941.files.wordpress.co...atenames07.jpg

Stingray2004 · #**393** Posted **May 23, 2016, 6:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by MalcolmTucker

You can frack with very little water depending on the reservoir characteristics. You can also tap saline watet from underground and move it instead of using fresh.

Yep. As a matter of fact, in NE BC's Horn River basin, both Encana and Apache are utilizing the deep, saline, non-potable Debolt aquifer to meet ~80% of their water fraccing requirements. And that includes the Debolt water treatment plant.

https://www.encana.com/news-stories/...-facility.html

BTW, the Horn River basin in the vicinity of Fort Nelson, B.C. is just south of the Cordova Embayment as well as the Liard basin - the majority of which is extant in NE BC as well.

Airboy · #**394** Posted **Jun 29, 2016, 2:46 PM**

Cape Dorset Cultural Centre.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...tion-1.3656969

Iqaluit Aquatic Centre
I hope to have some photos when I head up there later this summer or early fall.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...ntre-1.3652103

eemy · #**395** Posted **Jun 29, 2016, 4:05 PM**

That pool looks fantastic, especially for a city of Iqaluit's size.

Airboy · #**396** Posted **Jun 29, 2016, 4:23 PM**

Its long over do as well. Any indoor rec facility in the north is greatly needed.

Chadillaccc · #**397** Posted **Jun 30, 2016, 8:37 PM**

Is work still happening on the Iqaluit Fieldhouse?

Airboy · #**398** Posted **Jul 4, 2016, 8:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Is work still happening on the Iqaluit Fieldhouse?

As far as I know. No. but will find out more on my next trip up.

Chadillaccc · #**399** Posted **Jul 5, 2016, 12:14 AM**

That's too bad. That city really needs a sport facility.

Airboy · #**400** Posted **Aug 18, 2016, 4:52 PM**

YFB getting closer.

8 time larger than the current terminal.

And for anyone wondering. those grey sticks out front of the terminal in one of the photos. those are Flat loop Thermosyphons. They keep the ground (Permafrost) under the building frozen.And allow the building to be placed at grade making it more energy efficient.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...inal-1.3724711

http://www.arcticfoundations.com/ind...-thermosyphons