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Published on May 21, 2013 Wanted to test out my new Panasonic HC-X920 last weekend and figured I'd go check out Cameron Falls where the spring thaw is ongoing, making for some interesting snow and ice shots.
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Cameron Falls Trail is located within Hidden Lake Territorial Park, on the Ingraham Trail. It is approximately 47 km east of Yellowknife. http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/tourismparks/parks/parks/cameron_falls_trail.shtml
Compounding the frustration of city business owners was the short notice they received of the restriction which limited trucks to 75 per cent of their maximum freight. "Am I annoyed? Of course I'm annoyed," said Yellowknife Co-Op general manager Ben Walker, who was notified of the restrictions on Wednesday, a day before it came into effect. "For the consumer, maybe nothing goes up. But our Co-op members will pay for this. It comes out of their pocket." Walker said the Yellowknife Co-Op's freighting costs for groceries spiked by 34 per cent as a result of the restrictions because more trucks were needed to fulfill the store's supply needs.
Yellowknife students were given nine minutes to ask Chris Hadfield 20 questions. 10
EDMONTON - Atco is setting its sights on the potential for northern hydro projects and new transmission lines to energize natural gas production in booming northwestern Alberta and British Columbia. “The Alberta government has taken an interest in looking at hydro as a replacement for coal-fired generation, and we have been continuing our talks with First Nations in the Northwest Territories. And the Taltson project is one they are supporting,” said Siegfried Kiefer, chief operating officer for Atco’s energy and utilities division. The proposed Taltson dam project just north of the Alberta border is fairly small, able to generate 56 megawatts and situated adjacent to an existing 18 MW power plant built in the 1960s for a now-closed mine. The expansion is a joint venture with local aboriginal groups through Dezé Energy, and already has obtained all necessary permits to proceed. It would provide electricity for diamond mines north of Lesser Slave Lake that now rely on expensive diesel fuel, as well as add capacity for residential customers in the region, including Yellowknife..
In the first study of its type in Canada, new research has shown caribou have a role to play in climate warming in the arctic. 10
Leela Gilday says the north exerts an almost gravitational pull when you’re away from it. She should know: she moved south for university when she was 17 and ended up staying for 12 years to establish her musical career, something that’s hard to do when based in the north. She returned to Yellowknife in 2008. She calls the north “a powerful place. It occupies your dreams and your daily thoughts. It’s so vast, it makes you feel what your place is on the earth in a way you can’t in the south. You feel small in the north.” Feeling small occasionally, although Gilday doesn’t say so, might be a valuable corrective to southerners’ tendency toward self-importance. There’s nothing small, however, about Gilday’s music. A blend of folk, pop and country, it captures with vigour what it means to be a native person from the north (she’s a member of the Dene First Nation).
Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod is determined to see the region’s billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas developed
The true North, strong and empty Windsor Star (blog) You may remember the Macdonald Commission, appointed by Pierre Trudeau during the recession of the early 1980s to study why Canada's economy was performing so poorly - which couldn't possibly... 10
Steve will work with Northern communities and partners to create and implement a strategic granting program that builds capacity and advances solutions to integrated social, cultural, environmental and economic challenges in the North. [...] Stephen is a laureate of the inaugural Arctic Inspiration Prize. He serves as a member of the Environmental Monitoring Advisory Board for the Diavik Diamond Mine and a Director for the Dechinta Institute for Research and Learning. He previously chaired the Akaitcho Screening Board and was a long-standing Director of the Denesoline Corporation and a member of the NWT Protected Areas Strategy Steering Committee. “I am thrilled that Steve Ellis has joined our team. He brings the right mix of experience, relationships and out-of-the box thinking that will help philanthropy to make the greatest and most positive impact in Canada’s territories and Inuit regions,” said McMillan. For media inquiries please contact Alison Henning, Marketing and Communications Manager at alison.henning@tidescanada.org To learn more and connect with Steve about our work in the North, you can reach him at steve.ellis@tidescanada.org 10 10
An open letter to Kevin Menicoche, member of the Northwest Territories' legislative assembly. ... Dear Mr Menicoche, My name is Ollie. I’m a volunteer in Fort Liard, part of the Nahendeh region of the Northwest Territories that you represent as a member of the NWT’s Legislative Assembly. You may remember me. We met last month, when I brought a party of five Fort Liard teenagers to the Legislative Assembly for the morning. We watched you address your fellow MLAs (Members of the Legislative Assembly) on the subject of a much-needed ambulance for Fort Liard; then we had the pleasure of meeting you, and you spoke briefly to our kids about your job, the skills you need to do that job, and why it’s important – as a politician – to listen as well as talk. I hope you listen to this. 10
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - April 10, 2013) - Darnley Bay Resources Limited (TSX VENTURE:DBL) (the "Company" or "Darnley Bay") has made a payment of $440,896, comprised of expenses, administrative fees and interest owing with respect to a previous drill program, to the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. The payment brings the mineral concession agreement entered into between Darnley Bay and Inuvialuit Regional Corporation in 2009 into good standing. The final payment represents part of more than $3.8 million paid to the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation since 1995. Management intends, subject to financing, to initiate a drill program on the gravity anomaly on the property in 2013.
Published on Apr 13, 2013 Watch a news conference by First Nation chiefs from Alberta and the Northwest Territories announcing they have added their names and support to the formal "Save the Fraser Declaration", opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. The conference was held in Edmonton Jan 27 2012. Video by Ed Kaiser
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Published on May 19, 2013 Ferry got hung up on mud at the landing..they had to slowly push one side down with cats ..then push the other side to slowly inch it down ...after 2 days they finally made it into the water. 10
While the premier of the Northwest Territories is touting the devolution agreement signed in Yellowknife on Mar. 11 as a “done deal,” federal Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (AANDC) Minister Bernard Valcourt said last week the consensus draft is anything but final. “No agreement has been reached yet. There is a consensus on the terms of the agreement. The consultation must take place, it is taking place and when this has been accomplished we will know what the conditions will be,” Valcourt said during a special committee of the whole meeting that focused on AANDC Thursday evening in Ottawa. Valcourt’s words were in response to a question from Western Arctic MP Dennis Bevington asking why the federal government did not consult all the First Nations in the territory prior to negotiating the devolution deal with the territorial government. 10
Finally in early May, we got some warmer weather in Yellowknife and the snow on top of the ice of Great Slave Lake began to melt, leaving huge puddles. I took my… 10
Contestants were clutching the signature black and yellow Amazing Race envelopes as they jumped into their sport utility vehicles and sped off to their next destination. 10
In the Northwest Territories government inspectors are ordering a full engineering assessment of a troubled northern pipeline.
The pipeline has sprung several leaks in the past two months.
Now Grand Chief Herb Norwegian is saying the 870 kilometre line needs to be replaced.
APTN’s Wayne Rivers has the story.
Tags: Grand Chief Herb Norwegian, leaks, Northwest Territories, Pipeline
TheWildNorth Songby TheWildNorth This song was written for me by request.I do not own copyrights for this song. This song was written by Tom Samulak. Tom plays all the instruments and sings this song.Tom is the winner of the Canadian National Fred Sherratt Award. He is a great musical artist. i will make a music video for this song wen i get all footage for the lyrics. Enjoy! 10
Since I generally refrain from watching television, I’ve never seen the popular reality show “Ice Pilots.” So you could say I was flying blind when a book tied to the series popped up on my radar. ... “The Ice Pilots,” by New Yorker-turned-Canadian author Michael Vlessides, is subtitled “Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North.” Would that this were true. In practice, very little time is spent airborne. Instead, most of the book is about Vlessides himself, his experiences in the North, his time spent running around the Buffalo hangar with the television stars, his drinking binges with the same crew, and his repeatedly dashed efforts at getting “Buffalo” Joe to open up for an interview, efforts that show Vlessides to be suffering from something a bit creepier than hero worship crossbred with a disturbing tendency toward self-flagellation. The hero worship actually extends to the whole crew, and is accompanied by relentless hyperbole talking up how unbelievably awesome everyone at Buffalo is. Just a sample quote demonstrates the ludicrous exaltation of it all: “To be a Buffalo pilot is to be resourceful. If there was ever a professional who had to mimic the 1980s television star MacGyver — the secret agent who could craft a neutron bomb out of a Swiss Army knife and some old cheese — it’s the Buffalo Airways pilot.” Wow. Now extend that out over 269 pages of text that just keeps stumbling over itself like a moose with its forelegs roped together, and you have a pretty good idea of how this book reads.
The Status of Women Council NWT has been distributing this award to outstanding women in the five regions of the NWT every year since 1992. Wise Women recipi... 10
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The Honourable J. Michael Miltenberger delivered the opening plenary talk at Connecting Water Resources 2013: Changing the Water Paradigm. Miltenberger's talk, "NWT Water 101: Changing the Paradigm", kicked off the first day of the conference with the theme of "Innovation: The Possibilities of Changing the Paradigm". 10
Her goal? Convince a major international cable network to see what she sees -- the frontier spirit evident in the independent community of houseboaters on Yellowknife Bay. "I came up last year and shot some footage," said Haydn-Hays. "I spoke to some of the characters out there about what the strategies are for living off the grid on the lake," she said. This most recent visit was what she calls phase two, where the current footage gets edited into a mock one-hour show so the network can see what it would look like. Ideally, the network would then green-light the production and agree to either a full one-hour show or a series of episodes. Haydn-Hays is hesitant to compare her idea to Ice Pilots NWT or Ice Road Truckers. "Every show has it's own different vibe," she said. "This would be mostly about the challenges, the stakes involved and the character of the people behind the work. The frontier spirit is what drew me to the topic. They're living on their own terms, they're knowledgeable and it's like they're a boat captain, mechanic and engineer all in one." While it's still a long way from coming to a small screen near you, Haydn-Hays said she's confident people will be interested in the topic. "These are all things American audiences don't know about, they've never seen it. They don't have people living on frozen lakes," she said. 10
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Cameron Falls are always interesting... anytime of the year.... Video by Cale Frombach http://frombach.ca/
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