The $11-million expansion of Natural Resources Canada’s Polar Continental Shelf Program facility in Resolute Bay, Nunavut is now underway.
The $11-million expansion of Natural Resources Canada’s Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP) facility in Resolute Bay, Nunavut is now underway.
The expansion, scheduled to be completed by March 31, 2011, will see the addition of modern laboratories and upgraded living quarters at the facility, which supports field research throughout Canada’s Arctic.
Modules for the new construction, built in Matane, Que., have arrived in Resolute and will be assembled on site.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently announced plans for a new Canadian High Arctic Research Station to be located in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, part of its Northern Strategy “to assert and defend Canada's sovereignty, to protect the unique and fragile Arctic ecosystem, to develop a strong northern economy, and to encourage good governance and greater local control and opportunity,” the government said in a news release.
Each year PCSP provides ground and air support to over 165 research projects involving over 1,100 researchers from Canadian universities, federal government departments, territorial government departments, independent groups and foreign agencies conducting scientific activities in isolated areas throughout the Canadian Arctic.
Two of those projects are Natural Resources Canada’s United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals programs.
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