[CPEO-MEF] Resolution Island radar station (Nunavut, Canada)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A day of pride for Baffin
Qikiqtaaluk Corp. proves that Inuit can do the job

JIM BELL
Nunatsiaq News (Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada)
Decmber 8, 2006

Twenty years ago, some people said a cleanup of Resolution Island was a 
job that could never be done: too expensive, too complicated, not worth 
the effort.

But Qikiqtaaluk Corp., along with their partners at Indian and Northern 
Affairs Canada, proved them wrong.

...

The U.S. air force built the Resolution Island radar station between 
1951 and 1954, where it served as part of the Pinetree and Pole Vault 
radar detection systems.

About 100 American and Canadian airmen worked there until 1961 when the 
U.S. government abandoned the site and the station closed. The Canadian 
military abandoned Resolution Island in 1972, and in 1976, turned it 
over to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/features/61208_01.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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