A Road North: Is A Highway To The Mines On Its Way? – Edge

July 29, 2015

A road connecting Yellowknife to the diamond mines and the Slave Geological Province is an idea whose time has come, say some.

During Monday’s announcement that $72-million in pre-election federal cash was being pumped into NWT highway repairs, transport minister Tom Beaulieu made several passing references to three highway mega-projects.

Details were sparse, but he told reporters that a 300-page business case for the $700 million Mackenzie Valley Highway from Wrigley to Norman Wells is now being reviewed by the feds. Closer to home, the two other projects, an all-weather road to Whati and a road north from near Yellowknife towards the diamond mines and the Slave Geological Province, got little more than a mention.

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