Individual Assignments

[Laura Ciccone]

Other options: Laura will look into things not mentioned in our
discussion, Lucia will look into dogsledding and the fishing industry
Oil industry: Catherine & Elizabeth
Demographics/infrastructure of town: Alba
What are other communities doing? (i.e. Canada & Russia, Alaska
pipeline): Mak & Jay
Food security: Amy

Let's post what we find here.

See you all soon!

[Lucia Von Reusner]

Salmon Fishing:
- increased number of salmon entering the region
- numbers and types are increasing, but overall not that abundant yet-
40-50 annually as of 2001 (not a viable industry yet...)
- spawning grounds are pretty far inland
- pink and chum salmon commonly harvested along coast
- best time to harvest is in fall
- considered a treat among the people
- Crabs are pretty abundantly collected
Tourism in Alaska
- 2001 tourism revenue in alaska = $1.8billion
- majority takes place in southern alaska
- most come for backcountry exploration
- some types of tourism will need significant infastructure- no
matter what you need to be able to get there, and sleep somewhere

[Alba Sole Sorribes]

National Petrolium reserve - Alaska

http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ak/aktest/energy/npra_maps.Par.83793.File.dat/npra_Feb_1_2011.pdf

[Lucia Von Reusner]

job potentials for offshore drilling:
Reading: Offshore Drilling Moratorium in BC (http://whalesonline.net/
pdf/Moratorium_BC_analysis.pdf)
- The exploration phase, though expensive, has “limited opportuni-
ties for local involvement” since exploration con- tractors bring in
work crews from elsewhere.
- The construction phase of offshore projects is the most expensive
and creates the most jobs
- these jobs have approximately a 5 year contract
- gravity-based structure creates the most jobs. However, a floating
platform design – requiring considerably less investment and
employment – is increasingly being relied upon, allowing construction
to occur in distant locations
- Operational employment for offshore oil projects is significantly
lower.
- The exploration and construction phase of the Hibernia project
created, on average, 5.5 person-years of employment per million
dollars invested (jobs per million, or JPM)
- NAFTA significantly re- stricts the ability of governments to impose
per- formance requirements – such as requiring a com- pany to hire
locally
- need ship- building or large steel fabrication facility, otherwise
these communities improbable locations for short- term construction
projects.
-a social impact assessment suggested that the short-term nature of
construction em- ployment would have disruptive consequences for any
community in Newfoundland.
- how to maximize oil money: renewable energy and conservation fund. -
work with the federal government to implement an excess profits tax on
oil and gas com- panies operating in Canada. The other is to use a
portion of windfall royalty revenues during times of high oil and gas
prices.

http://www.royalroads.ca/NR/rdonlyres/482009CD-D2B0-4514-8567-6282E4BCD8A1/0/tab_1_overview.pdf
- only about 1/3 of benefits go back to LOCAL community
- Specialist contractors will require non-specialized services and
supplies, which many BC suppliers can provide. More generalized types
of services, include marine transportation, general fabrication, food
catering
- list of all jobs necessary
lots more here