with pulp and paper not fairing any better. The time frame between the 70’s and 90’s could be referred to as the ‘financial feasibility study’ years with well over 85 extensive reports published on everything from ener- gy to transportation & infrastructure to geophysical resources. With diminishing opportunities
young people are leaving in droves and it has been projected that the Cape Breton Regional Municipal- ity will depopulate from 100,000 residents in 2006 to approximately 75,000 by 2020.
Canso Causway The Canso Causeway is a 1,385
m (4,544 ft) rock-fill causeway that used approximately 10,092,000 t (9,933,000 long tons) of rock for building the causeway was quarried from a mountain on Cape Porcupine. The causeway has a base width of 244 m (801 ft) in waters having
a maximum depth of 65 m (213 ft) with a crown thickness of 40 m (130 ft), carrying the two vehicle traf- fic lanes as well as the single track mainline of the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway. This makes the Canso Causeway
the deepest causeway in the world. It is a deep-water, year round, ice- free harbor. Because the south side of the causeway, Chedabucto Bay, became completely ice free, it al- lowed for the industrialization of the Strait of Canso. The ice free, deep-water port allowed for large supertankers to dock in the Strait of Canso. Being completely ice free was a great benefit because it allowed the tankers to go to the oil refinery without worrying about navigating around the ice or worry- ing about being held up for days. Today the Strait is known as one
of the three locations on the North American Atlantic coast that is ca-
pable of accommodating even the largest anticipated super tankers. (Government of Canada, 1979)
Canso Canal The Canso Canal, operated by
Canadian Coast Guard Maritimes Region, links Chedabucto Bay to Northumberland Strait. The canal can handle any St. Lawrence Seaway sized vessel 225.6m (740’) length by 23.8m (78’) width. The Canal oper- ates from April 14 to December 23, on a 24/7 basis. Water levels, due to tidal differences, at either end of the Canso Canal, can vary as much as a metre.
Boom Again? Two natural gas projects off the
coast of Nova Scotia are contribut- ing to the province’s revenues. Chemical engineer Mike Priaro of
Calgary is the author of A Canada- First Canadian Energy strategy and
Main: Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC) can carry 3,000,000 barrels of oil. Inset front to back: ULCC, Very Large Crude Carrier carries 2,000,000 barrels, Panamax carries 400,000 barrels.
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