Anonymous ID: 2b3d54 Oct. 11, 2018, 5:40 p.m. No.3444965   🗄️.is 🔗kun

So lemme get this straight. By 2013, the arctic was supposed to be ice free, coastal cites were to be underwater, and the polar bears extinct… Did I hear that right?

Canada: sea ice prevents crucial supply deliveries to isolated communities

 

Authorities in Canada’s Arctic north are scrambling to transport critical supplies to three isolated communities after the early arrival of sea ice prevented delivery barges from reaching in the region.

 

Paulatuk, Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay, which have a combined population of nearly 3,000 people, have been unable to receive shipments of food, fuel and lumber after ice moving from the high Arctic sealed off the Amundsen Gulf.

The government of the Northwest Territories now plans to airlift nearly 600,000 litres of diesel fuel to ensure residents have sufficient reserves to weather the bitterly cold winters. The operation is expected to involved 50 to 60 flights.

 

“This is absolute ridiculous,” said Joh Holland, a municipal representative from Paulatuk. “We’ve got people waiting for food. We’ve got hunters waiting for vehicles.”

 

Crucial water treatment supplies and municipal vehicles – including a new bus – are also among the stranded items. Residents are already making payments on vehicles that likely won’t arrive until next year while some small businesses awaiting buildings supplies expressed fears they might not survive without the deliveries.

 

The ice has been described by officials as “extreme” and even the Canadian coast guard’s largest icebreaker in the region – the Louis St Laurent – was unable to help break open a channel for the barges. The government has rejected attempting to move the barge without an escort ship.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/05/canada-paulatuk-kugluktuk-cambridge-bay-sea-ice-supplies