The city of Iqaluit, Nunavut's garbage dump has been on fire for months and officials haven't been d
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Back in May:
[quote]With council’s approval May 20, Grandmaison and the city’s superintendent of public works, Joe Brown, concluded they should let the fire burn itself out, after attempts to douse the blaze with more than 64,000 litres of water failed to show any results.[/quote]
In a very ironic June:
[quote]Iqaluit’s annual city cleanup, planned for this Friday, has been postponed until June 20 because of smoke from the dump that’s been on fire for three weeks.
The forecast calls for winds to blow the smoke right over town.[/quote]
[url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/iqaluit-fire-chief-proposes-war-on-7-week-old-dumpcano-1.2700847]This month, Iqaluit Fire Chief Versus the Volcano:[/url]
[quote]Iqaluit’s fire chief, Luc Grandmaison, is proposing a bold plan to extinguish a seven-week-old fire in the city's garbage dump, suggesting a method that would cool the burning garbage with the help of millions of litres of seawater and cost at least $4.5 million.
Grandmaison presented the plan to city council Tuesday night.
The fire, which flared up on May 20, has caused schools to close and prompted regular health advisories for people sensitive to smoke. The dump fire's volume is now estimated at 50,000 cubic metres, five times bigger than the dump fire in Iqaluit in 2010.
Grandmaison, along with a working group including fire officials, emergency officials and a city engineer, has recommended using an "overall quenching approach" to put it out. That would mean scooping out the burning garbage, which is piled 15 metres deep, cooling it, dunking it in water and stacking it up again in a new pile.[/quote]
My heart goes out to all the 20 people living in Iqaluit.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;45411815]My heart goes out to all the 20 people living in Iqaluit.[/QUOTE]
6700 actually
And yeah this doesn't affect many people but it's an environmental fuckup that I figured wouldn't get reported on anywhere else since it's happening in basically the middle of nowhere.
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I originally thought it was a part of Greenland due to the name but it turns out it's a part of Canada where some Eskimos live.
Needless to say I don't know how you can cock up garbage disposal that badly.
A few of my friends are from Iqaluit, their reaction to anything in the news about 'back home' is pretty much a sigh, then they mutter "for fuck's sake". The stories I've heard are the most bizarre bullshit.
[QUOTE=Zeos;45411957]A few of my friends are from Iqaluit, their reaction to anything in the news about 'back home' is pretty much a sigh, then they mutter "for fuck's sake". The stories I've heard are the most bizarre bullshit.[/QUOTE]
Not surprised. Nunavut has an area lather than western Europe but a population that can fit in your average sports stadium.
It wouldn't help much that Iqaluits part of one of the most remote regions on the globe
Even some fellow Canadians that I've known have sometimes forgotten Iqaluit existed, as if Northwest Territories was still colossal and never divided in the 1990's
[QUOTE=ZeFruitNazi;45411892]what is nunavut
[editline]16th July 2014[/editline]
oh canada, sorry i'm not in-the-know about neighbor up north[/QUOTE]
Just google it?
One neat thing about Iqaluit is that all the Google Street View imagery was done with the camera backback.
No visible burning trash, unfortunately.
My small town in Ontario has a larger population than all of Nunavut.
Why is it even a thing, again?
[QUOTE=The Party Spy;45412154]My small town in Ontario has a larger population than all of Nunavut.
Why is it even a thing, again?[/QUOTE]
Because of the few people there, it's inhabited almost exclusively by the Inuit and they wanted their own local government
[QUOTE=The Party Spy;45412154]My small town in Ontario has a larger population than all of Nunavut.
Why is it even a thing, again?[/QUOTE]
Because if we turn our backs on the arctic for even a second Alaska, Russia, Denmark and Norway will start inexplicably growing
The Inuits really have it bad but there really isn't much that can be done about anything. Local governments are just really corrupt.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;45412394]Because if we turn our backs on the arctic for even a second Alaska, Russia, Denmark and Norway will start inexplicably growing[/QUOTE]
We need more Planes!
[QUOTE=Zeke129;45412394]Because if we turn our backs on the arctic for even a second Alaska, Russia, Denmark and Norway will start inexplicably growing[/QUOTE]
Idk about Denmark, the Danish gave up Greenland to the Eskimos years ago.
So they had another fire 2010, as well.
I dunno about anyone else, but I live in the US, and in area where forest fires and brush fires can be common in the rougher months of Summer/Fall (coming up, actually)- Not ONCE in my life has a garbage dump set fire.
The fuck, Iqaluit? Garbage arsons or something?
[QUOTE=Keys;45414017]So they had another fire 2010, as well.
I dunno about anyone else, but I live in the US, and in area where forest fires and brush fires can be common in the rougher months of Summer/Fall (coming up, actually)- Not ONCE in my life has a garbage dump set fire.
The fuck, Iqaluit? Garbage arsons or something?[/QUOTE]
Dump fires are incredibly serious for this very reason. In a non-incompetent town, even a tiny fire at a dump will basically result in the entire fire department showing up. A few years back some kids were messing around starting little fires at the dump here and they ended up calling in water bombers for it.
Dump snow on it this winter and choke the fire out.
#Pray4Canada
The far north is just all kinds of fucked up. In some communities, you have youth who have nothing to do all day but huff paint as an escape from alcoholism-bruised deep poverty. A trash fire lasting months is just one more thing.
The problem is that basically everything needs to get flown up to those places, which spikes the cost by a ridiculous amount. There really aren't any easy answers.
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