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2 Tuesday August 4 2015 INDUSTRY REMOTE SENSING NEWS BRIEFS Transport truck with explosives goes off road closing NWT Hwy 1 NWTHighway1wasclosedovertheweekendafteratrans- port truck lled with explosives went off the road and into thetreeline.Theincidenttookplaceabout19kmawayfrom the Alberta border on the morning of Aug. 1. The truck remained upright as crews removed the cargo and by the morning of Aug. 2 two-way trafc was restored. Investi- gators are uncertain what caused the truck to veer off the roadbutsaidtheyarecontinuingtolookintotheaccident. Cenovus Shell slash jobs as price of crude drops again Low prices are still cutting deep in the oilsands where two companies announced further layoffs last week. Cenovus Energy Inc. which cut 800 jobs earlier this year says 300- 400 more workers will be let go from its Calgary ofce by the end of the year due to continued low oil price environ- ment. Shell also announced more staff cuts last Thursday conrming it has laid off 400 people this year in addition to roughly 300 jobs cut in January. While crude prices re- bounded to US60 a barrel in May and June they dropped back to US48.52 last week. Overdoses on the rise in the NWT The NWT RCMP and Chief Coroners Ofce reported last week that the number of toxicity deaths in the territory has increasedsince2011.Whilein2011therewereveconrmed cases of deaths from substance abuse that number rose to sevenin2012eightin2013and11in2014.Anumberofthe deathswerecausedbyingestingcombinationsofdrugsand alcohol. While some were related to long-term drug and al- cohol use others involved rst-time users. The RCMP and coronerarewarningresidentsagainstusingstreet-leveldrugs which contain impurities and using drugs in combination. Ottawa announces new funding satellite dish for Inuvik facility By MEAGAN WOHLBERG The burgeoning Inuvik Satellite Station Facility celebrated a 3.7-million funding boost last week from the federal govern- ment along with a new antenna to support opera- tions at the site. Colin Carrie parliamen- tary secretary to the Envi- ronmentministerwasinInu- vik on Thursday on behalf of Natural Resources NRCan Minister Greg Rickford to make the announcement. Thefundingwillbeusedto improveandbuildroadsgrant- ing access to the facility. Last weeksfundingannouncement wasalsousedasaplatformto celebratetheinaugurationofa new NRCan satellite antenna andoperationsbuildingatthe facilitywhichwillreceivesat- ellite data and imagery and send commands to Earth ob- servation satellites. According to NRCan the new antenna is uniquely po- sitioned to track and receive datainreal-timefromthenew generation of polar-orbiting satellites for scientic map- ping weather surveillance and other purposes. The new antenna and sat- ellite operations building will further the Inuvik Satellite Station Facilitys ability to generate a host of scientic security and economic ben- ets for Northerners and all Canadians Rickford said in an announcement. The Inuvik facility has garnered increasing inter- national attention over the last several years with space and aeronautical agencies in Germany Sweden and Nor- way investing funds and in- frastructure into the project. Ongoing work by the ter- ritorial government to install a bre-optic line connecting the satellite station to the larger telecommunications grid has advanced interest in the project. A delegation from the GNWTvisitedEuropeinJune tomeetwiththevariousagen- ciesandwassuccessfulinse- curingfurthercommitments. The tour resulted in in- creased investments from Sweden which already has infrastructure in Inuvik in the form of another sat- ellite dish commitments from Germany and the Eu- ropean Space Agency of an enhanced presence in Inu- vik and strong interest from Italy in becoming involved. It also brought Norway on board for the rst time. The country will be install- ing four smaller dishes and a large 13-metre dish in In- uvik. The larger dish costs around 5-7 million while the smaller satellite dishes cost around 2-3 million. Inuvik is considered a geo- graphical hotspot for remote sensing data that can be used for national defence search and rescue emergency pre- paredness and response shipping and navigation en- vironmental monitoring and resource development. PhotoTerryHalifax The Inuvik Satellite Facility got a 3.7-million federal funding boost last week for road access infrastructure. CONGRATULATIONS to the organizers participants and spectators who made the 2015 Slave River Paddlefest A GREAT SUCCESS