Life on the road: Five days on a fracking tour through the Sahtu – CBC

Apr 19, 2015

CBC producer Peter Sheldon’s trip through the Sahtu brought plenty of insights, and even more stories

CBC North radio producer Peter Sheldon recently travelled across the Northwest Territories’ Sahtu region to cover a series of public input sessions about new fracking regulations proposed by the territorial government. He attended three meetings, drove three trucks, and ate a dozen granola bars to keep him going. Here’s what he saw.

I was supposed to fly to Norman Wells on Sunday, but that flight went mechanical. I’m not the first person that’s happened to. It meant I had to cancel my scheduled connecting flight to Fort Good Hope, too. So the new plan had me flying to Fort Good hope, direct, on Monday, but that flight was overbooked. So they said they’re sending me to Deline first, and they did, and that was nice.

Met this guy, Greg. He’s been the weather guy at the Deline airport since ’87:

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