![]() ![]() Hay River’s struggle with dredging goes back to the federal government’s decision to halt the work in the 1990s. If dredging is important, why hasn’t it happened? Because the day is coming that freight will not get out of that harbour.” “When it comes right down to it, passing it on and washing your hands of it is not going to work. “What happens when we can’t get supplies to the communities in the North? Whose responsibility is that? And who’s going to pay for that?” Keith Dohey, Hay River’s deputy mayor, said at the meeting. Not only have barges become stuck in the channels, but locals suspect the lack of dredging may have contributed to catastrophic flooding the community experienced in May.īeyond the consequences for the town, the build-up of sediment is a problem for communities that rely on the port’s marine transportation – a topic brought up at the NWT Association of Communities’ annual meeting in Yellowknife in September. No one wants to take responsibility for dredging, Jameson said, even as the situation has become increasingly pressing. ![]() Nearly a decade later, little has changed on the political front.
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