https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/fortified-arctic-infrastructure-needed-in-face-of-climate-change-study-1.4256176
[Or perhaps a flexible, adaptable infrastructure which will 'bend rather
than break'. Like the RESTCo vision for Arctic infrastructure.
https://www.restco.ca/RESTCo_NL2018_Housing_and_Infrastructure.pdf]
Fortified Arctic infrastructure needed in face of climate change: study
The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, January 16, 2019 1:36PM EST
[image caption: This Aug. 12, 2009, photo shows a section of the vital
Dempster Highway linking southern Canada with the Northwest Territories
after it collapsed because warming temperatures caused the permafrost
below to thaw. A new highly detailed study of climate change and the
North suggests impacts on roads and other infrastructure will be even
more severe than anticipated. ]
A detailed study of climate change and the North suggests the impact on
roads and other infrastructure will be even more severe than anticipated.
John Pomeroy of the University of Saskatchewan says projections in the
newly published paper are the most precise ever made.
He says they show significant threats to crucial links such as the
Dempster Highway, the only road from southern Canada to the Arctic coast.
The study predicts that by the end of the century, temperatures will
have risen by six degrees, permafrost will retreat or disappear and
flood-causing stream flows will almost double.
Pomeroy says the findings show that any new infrastructure in the North
will have to be reinforced and redesigned to withstand the impacts of
climate change.
Last year, the federal government promised $570 million over 10 years to
build new roads and for other community projects.
[The underlying report can be found at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08240-4]
