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Warm Weather Poses Risk to World’s Busiest Ice Road in Canada
Dec 28, 2015 4:41 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... The world's busiest ice road in Canada is running late
because unseasonably warm weather has set back ice formation on a path that gives access to
remote diamond mines during the winter,
Reuters reported December 24.
The
road, which stretches from Tibbitt Lake to Contwoyto Lake in the nation's Northwest Territories, is still expected to open on schedule late January. However, if
current weather patterns continue, there could either be more work for crews
trying to build the ice, or the road’s already short period of operation could
be cut, the report said.
A shorter
season could mean higher-than-normal costs and inconvenience for moving diesel,
machines and mining supplies from the territories’ capital Yellowknife – which
last year amounted to 9,000 truckloads.
Opened in 1982, the 400-kilometer winter route gives access to
three mines scattered across the Northwest Territories that would otherwise
only be reachable by air.
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Tags:
Canada, ice road, northwest territories, Rapaport News, winter mining
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