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Subject:Re: road to Tuk
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:22:46 -0500

---- Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> sounds like southerner talk
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> What about the folks who live in Tuk? Are they supposed to be "museum pieces" , living traditional lifestyles for the tourist (fly in) trade? They need jobs, they need food that does not cost a fortune etc, etc.
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> And thanks to the folk who live outside of Tuk, the climate is changing so that Tuk might end up being an important seaport.
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> But no matter Dave, you can still fly up to Churchill when you want to look at polar bears eh?

Was it the folks of Tuk (I mean all the folks, not just those enamoured of oil production) who chose to have this road, or was it the oil companies?  The same oil companies who want to build a pipeline through the U.S. to get oil products to Europe and other distant locales, while claiming that they are making the U.S. independent of foreign oil.

Life is not simple.  mcneely

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> On 2013-03-16, at 6:50 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
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> > Maybe we could just leave some places alone.   Oh well, it was a thought, anyway.
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David McNeely