![]() ![]() Even though the overall program liability has increased, many sites have seen a significant decrease in their individual liability, as remediation plans are being implemented. The increase in liability is mainly due to inflation, changes in cost estimates for the larger sites and the addition of newly-identified liabilities. The program liability estimate as of March 2012 was $2.1 billion, which represents an increase of $360 million. Nine sites were under active remediation and four sites completed remediation in 2011‑2012. The program has also moved an unprecedented number of sites beyond site assessment and remediation planning to the active remediation stage. This report presents NCSP's performance against the objectives of the Program's 2010-15 Performance Measurement Strategy. The purpose of the program is to reduce and eliminate risks to human and environmental health as well as federal financial liabilities associated with these sites. Liabilities associated with these sites, which include some of the largest and most complex contaminated sites in the country, are currently estimated at $2.1 billion, the largest liability of any federal department. Through its Northern Contaminated Sites Program (NCSP), Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) manages contaminated sites across the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Table 9 – Performance Measurement Results for the Indicators Reporting on the Ultimate OutcomeĪcronyms AANDC Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada AIP Agreement-in-Principle AST Aboveground Storage Tank CCME Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment CEAP Canada's Economic Action Plan DIAND Act Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Act DTA Canada – Yukon Northern Affairs Program Devolution Transfer Agreement DWP Detailed Work Plan FCSAP Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan FOS Freeze Optimization Study GNWT Government of the Northwest Territories GoC Government of Canada HQ Headquarters HR Human Resources IEMS Integrated Environmental Management System INAC Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (the previous name for AANDC) NAO Northern Affairs Organization NCSCS National Classification System for Contaminated Sites NCSP Northern Contaminated Sites Program NWT Northwest Territories PAA Program Activity Architecture PHC Petroleum Hydrocarbon PWGSC Public Works and Government Services Canada RMAF Results-Based Management Accountability Framework YESAA Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act YG Yukon Government Executive Summary.Table 8 – Performance Measurement Results for the Indicators Reporting on Intermediate Outcome.Table 7 – Performance Measurement Results for the Indicators Reporting on Immediate Outcome.Table 6 – Consultation Performance Measures, 2006 to 2012.Table 5 – Performance Measurement Results for the Indicators Reporting on Outputs in 2011‑2012.Table 2 – Number of sites based on NCS Classifications, 2006 to 2012. ![]() Table 1 – Northern Contaminated Sites Program Liability Estimates by Region.Figure 3 – Overall Employment for the Northern Contaminated Sites Program.Figure 2 – Training Implemented by the Northern Contaminated Sites Program.Figure 1 – Number of projects Undergoing Assessment, Remediation and Ongoing Risk Management.Annex A – AANDC Remediated Contaminated Sites.6.3 Merc International Minerals (now Nighthawk Gold Corp.).The veterans of this northern experience, whose narratives have been collected by the author, reveal all about their sentinel role in that tense time half a century ago when they dedicated their lives to helping to prevent nuclear war. There are, however, also tales of fun, practical jokes, camaraderie, and human kindness that boosted the morale of those stationed in the far north. The stories of the DEW Liners reveal real danger here – not from Soviet bombers but from close encounters with polar bears, job-related accidents, and airplane crashes, such as the one that claimed the author’s father. Survival was a daily preoccupation in a land where outdoor temperatures can dip to minus 50 degrees with winds exceeding one hundred miles an hour while blinding snowfall whiteouts make vision impossible. This book tells the stories of those DEW Liners who worked in the hostile, remote climate of the North. The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, as the mammoth radar fence was known, was spawned from American fear that Soviet bomber aircraft might penetrate the Canadian Arctic airspace and drop nuclear weapons on American cities and military bases. Yet in the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, thousands of young men from various countries were recruited to build and operate a complex radar system across the Arctic Circle from Alaska to Greenland. The North Pole seems an unlikely theatre of war. ![]()
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