Agg business in NWT Some disturbing parallels between Northern BC and NWT when the dream dies.
"Last spring, Husky Energy and ConocoPhillips, two large leaseholders in the area, rocked Tulita and Norman Wells when they separately announced they wouldn’t be drilling in the Canol Shale Formation during the 2014-15 season. Both companies had been doing exploration work, and people in Tulita were caught off guard.
Eddy McPherson, part-owner of HRN Contracting Ltd. in Tulita, says his company will be impacted “big time” by the cease in activity. HRN recently dropped “a good couple million” on things like trucks for hauling rocks in anticipation of continued work. Last winter he had as many as 60 workers — mostly from the Sahtu, he said — but he thinks he’ll be down to a “skeleton crew” of five this winter, scraping by with some work on the ice road."