TYPICAL BORROW MATERIALS USAGE HISTORICAL BORROW DEMAND FORECASTS: MACKENZIE VALLEY CORRIDOR
Prior to the late 19608, resource development in the Arctic had not gained any momentum and the demands for granular materials for community gravel airstrips, community nfrastructure projects, small isolated mining projects, and winter access roads were easily met. There were few competing needs for...
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1993
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.543.3393 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/gran/33259.pdf |
| Summary: | Prior to the late 19608, resource development in the Arctic had not gained any momentum and the demands for granular materials for community gravel airstrips, community nfrastructure projects, small isolated mining projects, and winter access roads were easily met. There were few competing needs for the granular resources in the Mackenzie River Valley and Delta areas. In the early 1970s, with the pending world oil shortages, major resource development and transportation projects were conceived for the Mackenzie Valley and detailed feasibility investigations were undertaken. In view of the extremely disturbance sensitive permafrost errain in the Arctic, each of these industrial megaprojects required substantive quantities of granular materials to support major engineered facilities. Significant demands for granular materials were identified for oil and gas pipelines, oil and gas processing plants and related facilities, Beaufort Sea developments, the extension of the Mackenzie Highway system, deep seaports on the Beaufort coast, and extensive infrastructure upgrading in Mackenzie Valley communities. The demands for granular materials in the Mackenzie Valley came to a sudden and abrupt halt in the early to mid-1980s with the drop in world oil prices and postponement of megaproject activity in the region. |
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