{"id":482088,"date":"2026-02-18T03:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482088\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T03:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:04:23","slug":"proposed-arctic-economic-and-security-corridor-would-mean-dealing-with-permafrost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482088\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Arctic economic and security corridor would mean dealing with permafrost"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe typical [repair] cycle if you’re in an ice-rich environment is typically about three to four years, while if you’re in other areas where there’s no sensitive soil, no ice-rich permafrost, it’s more like 12 to 15 years,\u201d Dor\u00e9 said.<\/p>\n

\"MAIN\/Submitted<\/p>\n

\nThe federal government has signaled the proposed Arctic economic and security corridor could be recommended for fast-tracking in the future. The 900-kilometre all-season utility corridor would stretch from Yellowknife to Grays Bay, Nunavut, pictured here, the site of a proposed deep-water port. (Submitted by West Kitikmeot Resources Corp.)<\/p>\n

Newmark says the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway had suffered from a lack of maintenance for a number of years, and much of the money spent was mostly for clearing snow off the road.<\/p>\n

In written responses to CBC News, the N.W.T. Infrastructure department says it allocated $2.2 million each year for maintenance on that highway between 2019 and 2024, and that figure was bumped up to $2.5 million until 2027.<\/p>\n

The department says that does include funding for maintenance like gravel surfacing and embankment slope repair.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the federal and territorial governments also pledged $14m for the rehabilitation of the highway.<\/p>\n

Thumbnail courtesy of West Kitikmeot Resources Corp. via CBC.<\/p>\n

The story was originally written by Samuel Wat and published for CBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe typical [repair] cycle if you’re in an ice-rich environment is typically about three to four years, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[16167,49,48,2848,6093,295,74332,6092,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-482088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-arctic","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-climate","12":"tag-climate-change","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-ghg","15":"tag-global-warming","16":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}