Resource Mega-Projects Geography of Canada

Resource Mega-Projects What are Mega-Projects? Resource Mega-Projects Analysis

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Mega-Projects in Canada 400-series Highways in Southern Ontario

Mega-Projects in Canada The Canadarm on the Space Shuttle

Mega-Projects in Canada The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway in southern Ontario and southern Quebec

Mega-Projects in Canada Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland in New Brunswick

Mega-Projects in Canada The Trans-Canada Highway stretching from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island

Mega-Projects in Canada The Trans-Continental Railway linking the Atlantic to the Pacific

Mega-Projects in Canada Hibernia Oil Field off the coast of Newfoundland

Mega-Projects in Canada Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories

Mega-Projects in Canada Hydroelectric Project in northern Quebec

Mega-Projects Mega-projects are just that, very large projects, that require large amounts of space, that have very large price tags, that take very large amounts of time to construct (sometimes decades), that affect large population of people, and most often have large environmental ramifications attached.

Mega-Projects The principal concerns with mega projects are that: mega-projects absorbed enormous amounts of capital over long periods and therefore reduced flexibility in development planning mega-projects are extremely complex to manage and seemed in some cases to be beyond anyone's control; and the sheer size of the projects suggested that the environmental impact would be substantial but probably not readily calculable in advance. Mega projects come in all shapes and sizes and occur all around the global village.