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Spaceport project hinges on moose count
Halifax Chronicle-Herald ^ | April 17, 2017 | Anne Farries

Posted on 04/17/2017 8:31:05 PM PDT by Loyalist

Before you launch a rocket, you need to count the moose.

Maritime Launch Services, the company that hopes to build a spaceport on a parcel of Nova Scotia land that juts into the ocean near Canso in Guysborough County, must first complete an environmental review — including counting seasonal numbers of local flora and fauna — before the province agrees to the project.

“We’ve hired a contractor to help us do the study,” MLS president Steve Matier said Monday. “We could conceivably complete that effort at the end of this year.”

“It’s part of the process, and it’s understood. We had a fair sense of what we were getting into.”

The nearby Sable Wind Farm, a county partnership with Nova Scotia Power, had to have a similar review before it was approved, Matier noted.

“So we had a good sense of what to expect and we had a good sense of what had been done before,” he said. “For example, we knew there weren’t any moose seen when they did that four-year study. I think the nearest moose was 100 kilometres away.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thechronicleherald.ca ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; canso; geosynchronous; moose; novascotia; orbit; spaceport
Until we can send a moose to the moon and safely return it to Earth, space exploration will not truly advance.
1 posted on 04/17/2017 8:31:07 PM PDT by Loyalist
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To: Loyalist

IBTMPA (in before the Monty Python allusions)


2 posted on 04/17/2017 8:32:28 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Loyalist

Well......it is made of cheese you know.


3 posted on 04/17/2017 8:38:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Loyalist

It could be worse - it could have been doing an elf study before being able to get your permits. But - they are so hard to find - just the idea that they might be there could shut it down!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/elf-lobby-iceland-road-project


4 posted on 04/17/2017 8:40:41 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Loyalist

I hope my sister isn’t there....


5 posted on 04/17/2017 8:40:43 PM PDT by nevergore
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To: Loyalist

6 posted on 04/17/2017 8:56:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Loyalist

Who’s going to volunteer their sister to ride along?


7 posted on 04/17/2017 8:56:20 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Loyalist

Moose On The Moon! It Would Make A Good Movie!


8 posted on 04/17/2017 9:03:23 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Loyalist

Nova Scotia is way to far north to be a good place to launch satellites. Closer to the equator, less energy is needed to get into orbit since it is possible to take advantage of the earth’s angular velocity.

These guys would only launch into polar orbit, which is covered by launches from other places...


9 posted on 04/17/2017 9:27:32 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Loyalist
Rocky: "What ya doing, Bullwinkle ?"

Bullwinkle: "Oerrr well, I'm going to go to college to learn to count."


10 posted on 04/17/2017 9:37:54 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Loyalist

goose= a gaggle of geese
moose= a maggle of meese


11 posted on 04/17/2017 9:39:02 PM PDT by tumblindice
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#9: "Nova Scotia is way too far north to be a good place to launch satellites."

Precisely. It was no accident that our space center is in Florida. And the Euros have theirs in French Guiana.

Those Nova Scotians need to get back to growing cucumbers in green houses.

12 posted on 04/17/2017 11:00:16 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (George W. Bush, the master of thrift shop art . . .)
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Canso was selected by a team of American aerospace experts from 14 different candidate sites. It was chosen for its ideal access to a synchronous orbit, the area’s low population density, its proximity to transportation hubs, and because of the province’s enthusiasm from the project.

—the launch pad is slated to deliver commercial satellites to low Earth orbit aboard Ukrainian-built rockets on a due south trajectory, and at a cost of $60 million per launch. The company would like to launch as many as eight rockets per year starting in 2022.

http://gizmodo.com/canada-is-finally-getting-its-first-spaceport-1793294375


13 posted on 04/17/2017 11:58:04 PM PDT by deks
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More interesting info...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/proposed-spaceport-would-bring-defunct-n-s-town-back-to-the-cutting-edge


14 posted on 04/18/2017 12:04:55 AM PDT by deks
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To: 21twelve
could be worse - it could have been doing an elf study

Before I self-named myself "Ace's Dad" my Navy call sign was "The ELF." I worked on the Navy's Project ELF, a submarine communications system built by Ronald Reagan.

15 posted on 04/18/2017 2:15:15 AM PDT by Ace's Dad (BTW, "Ace" is now Captain Ace. But only when I'm bragging about my son!)
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To: Loyalist

Spaceport project hinges on moose count...

What doesn’t?


16 posted on 04/18/2017 2:27:34 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Loyalist

No where in the article does it state just how many Moose they have to have to get approval!

I suppose they could import some it they don’t have enough.


17 posted on 04/18/2017 2:44:10 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: UCANSEE2

The name of the college where Bullwinkle matriculated was “Wassamatta U”.


18 posted on 04/18/2017 4:13:44 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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