Oh, Canadians!
A Tribute to Canadians Who Make A Difference

Monday, December 6, 2010

List of key Canadian infrastructure resource sites:

List of key Canadian infrastructure resource sites:

CBC News

•Hibernia Atlantic undersea cable landing Halifax.

•James Bay power project, Quebec: monumental hydroelectric power development.

•Mica Dam, British Columbia: failure would impact the Columbia River Basin.

•Hydro Quebec: Critical irreplaceable source of power to portions of Northeast United States.

•Robert Moses/Robert H. Saunders Power, Ontario: Part of the St. Lawrence Power Project, between Barnhart Island, N.Y., and Cornwall, Ont.

•Seven Mile Dam, British Columbia: concrete gravity dam between two other hydropower dams along the Pend d'Oreille River.

•Pickering Nuclear Power Plant, Ontario and the Chalk River Nuclear Facility, Ontario (largest supplier of medical radioisotopes in the world).

•Hydrofluoric acid production facility, Amherstburg, Ont.

•Enbridge Pipeline.

•Alliance Pipeline: natural gas transmission from Canada.

•Maritime and Northeast Pipeline: natural gas transmission from Canada.

•Transcanada Gas: natural gas transmission from Canada.

•Alexandria Bay Point of Entry (POE) Ontario: border crossing.

•Ambassador Bridge POE, Ontario: border crossing.

•Blaine, Wash., POE, British Columbia: border crossing.

•Blaine, Wash., rail crossing, British Columbia.

•Blue Water Bridge POE, Ontario: border crossing.

•Champlain POE, Quebec: border crossing.

•CPR tunnel rail crossing, Ontario.

•International bridge rail crossing, Fort Erie, Ont.

•Lewiston-Queenstown POE, Ontario: border crossing.

•Peace Bridge POE, Ontario: border crossing.

•Pembina POE, Manitoba: border crossing.

•North portal rail crossing, Saskatchewan.

•St. Claire tunnel rail crossing, Ontario.

•Waneta Dam, British Columbia: Earthfill/concrete hydropower dam.

•Darlington nuclear power plant, Ontario.

•E-ONE Moli Energy, Maple Ridge, B.C.: critical to production of various military application electronics.

•General Dynamics Land Systems, London, Ont.: Critical to the production of the Stryker/USMC LAV vehicle integration.

•Raytheon Systems Canada Ltd. ELCAN optical technologies division, Midland, Ont.: critical to the production of the AGM-130 Missile.

•Thales Optronique Canada, Inc., Montreal: critical optical systems for ground combat vehicles.

•Germanium mine [no location listed].

•Graphite mine [no location listed].

•Iron ore mine [no location listed].

•Nickel mine [no location listed].

•Niobec Mine, Quebec: niobium.

•Cangene, Winnipeg: plasma.

•Sanofi Pasteur Ltd., Toronto: polio virus vaccine.

•GlaxoSmithKile Biologicals, Quebec City, Que.: pre-pandemic influenza vaccines.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/12/06/list-key-infrastructure.html#ixzz17Mi9NoaR

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