Road safety is our number one priority, particularly on the ice road. As I've said in this House a number of times, climate change and things have had a number of impacts on the condition of our ice roads and winter roads in the Northwest Territories. It's unfortunate, like I said, that this happened in Aklavik this year due to safety matters, but if we look at the incident that happened at Deline two years ago, we certainly don't want this type of situation happening particularly on the Beau-Del, where there's great resource for fish in the Northwest Territories, and to have an incident like that would be catastrophic. I'm not an engineer and I'm not an ice profiler, but on recommendation of our superintendent and our people that go out there and profile the ice, this road was closed in that time.
Wally Schumann on Question 771-18(2): Aklavik To Inuvik Ice Road Closure
In the Legislative Assembly on May 29th, 2017. See this statement in context.
Question 771-18(2): Aklavik To Inuvik Ice Road Closure
Oral Questions
May 28th, 2017
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