ARCTIC Forty Years of Northern Non-Renewable Natural Resource Development
ABSTRACT. Northern Canada is endowed with abundant non-renewable natural resources, and exploration and development of those resources have increased steadily since World War II. Particularly during the past 20 years new regulatory controls have been emplaced in response t el vated concerns about th...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.572.6476 2023-05-15T14:19:45+02:00 ARCTIC Forty Years of Northern Non-Renewable Natural Resource Development W. W. Nassichuk The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1987 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.572.6476 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic40-4-274.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.572.6476 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic40-4-274.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic40-4-274.pdf Key words minerals oil gas coal Beaufort Sea Mackenzie Delta Arctic Islands weather stations transportation text 1987 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T12:36:13Z ABSTRACT. Northern Canada is endowed with abundant non-renewable natural resources, and exploration and development of those resources have increased steadily since World War II. Particularly during the past 20 years new regulatory controls have been emplaced in response t el vated concerns about the possible impact of resource development on the environment. During the past 40 years gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, asbestos, tungsten, uranium, coal and other minor commodities have been produced from more than 30 mines in the northern mainland, but at the present time only 6 mines are producing gold, silver, lead and zinc in that area: Con, Giant Yellowknife, Echo Bay, Mount Skukum, United Keno Hill and Faro mines. Lead and zinc are being produced at the world’s most northerly mine, Polaris, on Little Cornwallis Island, and lead, zinc and silver are mined at Nanisivik on Baffin Island. At least 375 oil and gas wells have been drilled north of the Arctic Circle in the northern mainland since 1947, and 42 oil and gas fields have been discovered in the Beaufort Sea-Mackenzie Delta area alone. Total discovered and undiscovered resources in the latter r a approximate 213 1 billion m3 gas and 1.35 billion m3 oil. From 1961 to 1986, 176 wells were drilled in the Arctic Islands and 17 oil and gas fields were discovered. Discovered and undiscovered resources approximate 2257 billion m3 gas and 686 million m3 oil. Text Arctic Arctic Baffin Island Baffin Beaufort Sea Cornwallis Island Keno Hill Mackenzie Delta Nanisivik Yellowknife Unknown Arctic Baffin Island Canada Cornwallis ENVELOPE(-54.464,-54.464,-61.072,-61.072) Cornwallis Island ENVELOPE(-95.001,-95.001,75.135,75.135) Echo Bay ENVELOPE(-117.887,-117.887,66.034,66.034) Faro ENVELOPE(-133.353,-133.353,62.231,62.231) Keno Hill ENVELOPE(-135.307,-135.307,63.908,63.908) Little Cornwallis Island ENVELOPE(-96.502,-96.502,75.502,75.502) Mackenzie Delta ENVELOPE(-136.672,-136.672,68.833,68.833) Mount Skukum ENVELOPE(-135.486,-135.486,60.191,60.191) Nanisivik ENVELOPE(-84.535,-84.535,73.037,73.037) Yellowknife |
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ABSTRACT. Northern Canada is endowed with abundant non-renewable natural resources, and exploration and development of those resources have increased steadily since World War II. Particularly during the past 20 years new regulatory controls have been emplaced in response t el vated concerns about the possible impact of resource development on the environment. During the past 40 years gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, asbestos, tungsten, uranium, coal and other minor commodities have been produced from more than 30 mines in the northern mainland, but at the present time only 6 mines are producing gold, silver, lead and zinc in that area: Con, Giant Yellowknife, Echo Bay, Mount Skukum, United Keno Hill and Faro mines. Lead and zinc are being produced at the world’s most northerly mine, Polaris, on Little Cornwallis Island, and lead, zinc and silver are mined at Nanisivik on Baffin Island. At least 375 oil and gas wells have been drilled north of the Arctic Circle in the northern mainland since 1947, and 42 oil and gas fields have been discovered in the Beaufort Sea-Mackenzie Delta area alone. Total discovered and undiscovered resources in the latter r a approximate 213 1 billion m3 gas and 1.35 billion m3 oil. From 1961 to 1986, 176 wells were drilled in the Arctic Islands and 17 oil and gas fields were discovered. Discovered and undiscovered resources approximate 2257 billion m3 gas and 686 million m3 oil. |
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