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Cargo ship from Nunavik mine to travel Northwest Passage
CBC News ^
| Sep 22, 2014 2:49 PM CT|
| CBC News
Posted on 09/26/2014 1:08:16 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
A cargo vessel carrying a shipment of nickel from Nunavik to China left Deception Bay, Que., on Friday to sail through the Northwest Passage.
Fednav, which owns the MV Nunavik, says it will be one of few commercial vessels to navigate the Northwest Passage, and the first to do so unescorted.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: arctic; climatechange; globalwarming; northwestpassage
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:08:16 PM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
To: WhiskeyX
Only passable a few months a year.
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:11:47 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: WhiskeyX
Suppose they will be stranded in the ice also?
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:15:23 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Only passable a few months a year.
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Guess the glow bull warming hasn't opened the Arctic as forecast.....
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:18:10 PM PDT
by
Hogblog
To: mountainlion
The ice-breaking bulk carrierIt's an ice breaker so it'll probably get through. IIRC, a pleasure craft tried to navigate the Passage this summer and was caught in the ice.
To: Hogblog
I read that earlier this summer some private yachts got stuck in the globull warming when they tried the NW passage.
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:24:06 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: colorado tanker
I remember six months ago a ship and three icebreakers got stuck down south.
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:33:29 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: WhiskeyX
If they do get stuck, they’ve got nickel. They can call someone who cares.
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:37:58 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: WhiskeyX
Due to Globull Warming, Nunevik is now a tropical paradise.
I can’t wait till I can exchange my Hawaii Timeshare week for a week on the sunny, lush, rain-foresteN beaches of nunevik!
I am SO excited about it!
Wheeeeee!
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:49:54 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: mountainlion
Get this. A Chinese company owned the nickel mine but is going bankrupt.
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674nunavik_mine_owes_72_million_to_creditors_chinese_owners_turn_project_
To: WhiskeyX
The Northwest Passage is unforgiving.
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:52:13 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: WhiskeyX
Won’t make a dime’s worth of different.
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:54:16 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: colorado tanker
nickel mine but is going bankrupt.
Insurance accident of some kind.
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posted on
09/26/2014 1:58:07 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: mountainlion
The ship will not make it this year.
To: colorado tanker
I guess nobody much remembers the “Manhattan” ice breaking tanker. That does not seem so long ago.
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posted on
10/25/2014 1:57:23 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Obola brought to you by demorats. Hope you like your Change and live to tell it.)
To: Forward the Light Brigade
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