well that's pretty damn optimistic since we're all gonna be dead in ten years...
Posted on 08/14/2019 6:01:19 PM PDT by robowombat
Six New Icebreakers To Be Built For Canadian Coast Guard
By: Xavier Vavasseur August 13, 2019 10:54 AM
The Canadian Coast Guard will be procuring six new program icebreakers to replace its current aging fleet of icebreakers.
The announcement was made on Aug. 2 by Canada’s Minister for Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Jonathan Wilkinson.
Minister Wilkinson also announced that the Government of Canada is officially launching a competitive process, through an Invitation to Qualify, to add a third Canadian shipyard as a strategic partner under the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS). This new shipyard will build the new program icebreakers for the Coast Guard.
Coast Guard program icebreakers are essential to Canada’s economy by supporting year-round marine trade in Eastern Canada, the St. Lawrence waterway and the Great Lakes. They enable eastern Canadian ferries to operate during the wintertime, and are critical to Canada’s commercial fisheries. The program icebreakers are also used to provide service to Canada’s northern residents by supporting the annual re-supply of goods to Canada’s Arctic communities and their industries.
“The Canadian Coast Guard saves lives at sea, maintains safe shipping, enables an otherwise ice-choked economy, protects the marine environment and supports Canadian sovereign presence in the Arctic. Demands on the Coast Guard will only grow as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and intense. By adding the new program icebreakers to renew the fleet, we are ensuring the women and men of the Canadian Coast Guard have the equipment they need to deliver icebreaking services in the Arctic, on the St. Lawrence waterway and on Canada’s East Coast.”
Jonathan Wilkinson Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard On May 22, 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the Government of Canada is investing $15.7 billion to renew the Coast Guard fleet, with up to 16 Multi-Purpose Vessels to be built at Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards and two new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships to be built at Irving Shipbuilding Inc.
The new program icebreakers will replace the Coast Guard’s heavy and medium icebreakers that operate in Atlantic Canada and the St. Lawrence waterways during the winter and in the Arctic during the summer. In Atlantic Canada, these program icebreakers help ensure year-long ferry service, escort ships through ice-covered waters and the clearance of ice from harbors and wharfs, which is essential to Canada’s commercial fisheries. In the Arctic, they provide icebreaking support to ships with vulnerable cargoes, such as dangerous goods and perishable products, and support vessels transporting cargo that is a vital part of the northern communities’ sealift and resupply.
The Canadian Coast Guard currently has a fleet of two heavy icebreakers (CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent and CCGS Terry Fox) and five medium icebreakers. Two interim medium icebreakers (Tor Viking and Balder Viking) are being converted for the CCG as part of project Resolute, while CCGS John G. Diefenbaker, a Polar icebreaker displacing 23,500 tons, is set to join the fleet in by 2022.
Are these necessary in light of Global Warming?
Busted!
Gee I woulda thought they’d be buying house boats instead!
1) Come here often, eh?
2) I'm Aries, what's your sign, eh?
3) If I said you had a nice body, would you hold it against me, eh?
4) Could I buy you a Moulson, eh?
5) Want to come to my place and see my etchings, eh?
6) Want to go for a cruise on my new icebreaker, eh?
How can this be so?
Thought the ice was melting? What gives?
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Fake news site ice is melting, but real ice continues to grow, as it has for 80 years or so.
They better keep the old ones too, they’re going to need them all in the upcoming mini ice age.
well that's pretty damn optimistic since we're all gonna be dead in ten years...
Will be built in BC and used in the Artic, Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River and Eastern Canada. Will the shake down cruise pass through the Panama Canal or will they try and pilot them to the ease coast through the Artic? Let me check the shipping routes within a couple hundred Nautical Miles... Through the Canal, 6450NM to Halifax, 7200NM to Montreal and 8100NM to Lake Huron through the Canal or through the Artic (if a lane can be opened) 6400NM to St John’s NL, 6800NM to Halifax, 6950NM to Quebec City and 7800NM to the middle of Lake Huron. You build the ships on the East Coast you are near repair facilities should something go wrong... Glad Trudeau isn’t a brain surgeon!
Six new ones? Maybe they can lend us one to supplement our pathetic “ice breaker fleet” which I believe (maybe mistakenly) consists of a single ship now.
America can laugh but America has inadequate Ice Breakers and show of force civilian and especially military on both poles especially the Arctic region.
Jobs program. ;-)
there is an expedition yacht converted from a canadian ice breaker built in the 1960’s. very cool ship.
Originally built for the Canadian Coast Guard in Quebec, Beauport was designed, constructed and classed for light ice breaking, exceeding Lloyd’s specifications. She spent her first 30 years operating year round in fresh water on the St. Lawrence Seaway, originally accommodating a crew of 34. In 1993, when she was converted to a luxury yacht,
http://pro.yatco.com/BrochureTemplate.aspx?pdfid=12e50b19-c516-438b-9f42-0694524c05eb
I think we ought to add a few to the order (for our Coast Guard); which should bring prices down.
...are they *that* shy?
The Polar Star is the only heavy ice breaker. The Healy is in service but is not a heavy ice breaker. The Mackinaw is the only ice breaker serving the Great Lakes.
That makes a total of three ice breakers for the World's richest and most powerful nation. A total disgrace in my opinion.
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