For the first time since remediation worked started in 2021, media were invited to take a look at what's been going on at the Giant Mine site. Officials said the project is going to take longer and cost more than expected.
Blasters at the Giant Mine remediation project detonated an explosive last Tuesday while one worker was still underground and in close proximity to the blast, the Giant Mine project team confirmed to CBC.
In the last three years, federal inspections of contaminated sites the Canadian government is responsible for cleaning up in the N.W.T. have decreased, based on inspection report filings to territorial regulatory agencies. The federal department said with less work happening on the sites, fewer inspections are needed.
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Posted April 23, 2021
Permafrost, or continuously frozen ground, covers about 24 percent of the Northern Hemisphere, including 50 percent of Canada, more than 60 percent of Russia, and almost 85 percent of Alaska. Scientific understanding and modelling of long-term permafrost dynamics are still at the development stage [1, 2] but the effects of thawing permafrost on Arctic coastline erosion and infrastructure collapse are already causing concerns.
Ice under permafrost soil. Photo: SeppFriedhuber/Getty Images
Global warming and Arctic permafrost thaw
Permafrost is a substantial sink of CO2 and methane, making it significant to the global climate, and release of these greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost is predicted to be similar in magnitude to that caused by land-use change [3]. Further effects of permafrost warming in the Arctic include increased flooding, precipitation, and coastline erosion, already occurring in some regions [2, 4].