Posts Tagged ‘quebec’
Tremblant ‘10
I spent the last two days bombing around Quebec’s Mont Tremblant ski resort. I wanted to get the Eastern Canadian ski experience while I’m still out east and get a coffee mug to prove it. Tremblant is an IntraWest instant resort-in-a-can, with the standard pedestrian village, hot spring spa, tubing, skating and over-priced food stuffs. […]
Canada’s Top Infrastructure Projects
Canada Line – Vancouver Romaine Hydroelectric Complex Project $6.5 Billion Hydro Quebec’s monster generating project in North-eastern Quebec. 1550 MW with a completion date of 2020. Bruce A Nuclear Generating Station Restart $5.25 Billion Refurbishing of two CANDU reactors 250km north of Toronto on Lake Huron and construction of two additional reactors to be completed […]
Boom Times
The placement of munitions factories popped up in a lecture today regarding an old Second World War arms factory in Ajax, Ontario. For obvious reason, war-time munition factories required a clear 5km buffer radius around the site. A five kilometer radius is a considerable amount of idle land surrounding an industrial land-use and I was […]
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