Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Arctic Bay emergency strip is just that. It is a fairly good strip, but it does not have any power going to it. It is some distance from the municipality and the airport that serves the municipality is in Nanisivik. It is 20 to 30 kilometres or so. I do not know exactly, but it is some distance from Arctic Bay. You have to travel by the highway to it. This airport, at Nanisivik, has the lights and the terminal and the garages and the equipment, to maintain it. It serviced the jet that serviced the Nanisivik mine, so they have fairly good air service. The community itself, some distance away, only has an emergency service strip. There has not been any planning to upgrade it, to put any lights on it or to put an airport terminal building at the emergency strip, up to this point in time. As we are working on trying to figure out what we are going to do with the Nanisivik airport, perhaps once we come to an understanding with the owners of the Nanisivik mine to get involved in the operation of the airport in Nanisivik, that may free up some of the funds that we are spending to maintain that airport and maybe make arrangements to divert it towards the emergency airstrip in Arctic Bay. These are the types of things that we are talking about with the community. To see that the emergency airstrip right in Arctic Bay could have the type of lighting and facilities that will allow it to be used more on a regular basis in the future. Thank you.
Jim Antoine on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 18th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 17th, 1997
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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