Residents on the Mackenzie Valley Highway's proposed route are wary of it but many ultimately want the project to go ahead, recent community meetings suggest.
Norman Wells
The Sahtu Secretariat said it supported a temporary water licence to keep Imperial Oil's Norman Wells facility operating through an environmental assessment.
In the early 1960s, members of the Molson Brewery family travelled the Mackenzie River from Hay River to Tuk. Here, for the first time, is the video they shot.
Parts of the Mackenzie Valley Winter Road are opening ahead of what is expected to be an extraordinarily busy resupply season after the summer barges failed.
It's December and a fire near Norman Wells (temperature last night -41C) is keeping crews occupied. The GNWT may take extra steps if it burns into the new year.
A regulator is considering emergency renewal of a licence that would keep Imperial Oil's Norman Wells facility running through an environmental assessment.
