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Resource Mega-Projects

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Resource Mega-Projects

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    1. Geography of Canada www.CraigMarlatt.com/school Resource Mega-Projects

    2. Resource Mega-Projects What are Mega-Projects? Resource Mega-Projects Analysis

    3. What do these have in common?

    4. Mega-Projects in Canada 400-series Highways in Southern Ontario

    5. Mega-Projects in Canada The Canadarm on the Space Shuttle

    6. Mega-Projects in Canada The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway in southern Ontario and southern Quebec

    7. Mega-Projects in Canada Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland in New Brunswick

    8. Mega-Projects in Canada The Trans-Canada Highway stretching from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island

    9. Mega-Projects in Canada The Trans-Continental Railway linking the Atlantic to the Pacific

    10. Mega-Projects in Canada Hibernia Oil Field off the coast of Newfoundland

    11. Mega-Projects in Canada Open Pit Mine in the Northwest Territories

    12. Mega-Projects in Canada Hydroelectric Project in northern Quebec

    13. Mega-Projects Mega-projects are just that, very large projects, that require large amounts of space, that have very large price tags, that take very large amounts of time to construct (sometimes decades), that affect large population of people, and most often have large environmental ramifications attached.

    14. Mega-Projects The principal concerns with mega projects are that: mega-projects absorbed enormous amounts of capital over long periods and therefore reduced flexibility in development planning mega-projects are extremely complex to manage and seemed in some cases to be beyond anyone's control; and the sheer size of the projects suggested that the environmental impact would be substantial but probably not readily calculable in advance. Mega projects come in all shapes and sizes and occur all around the global village.

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