1. Resource Mega-Projects
Geography of Canada

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

3. What do these have in common?

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

5. Mega-Projects in Canada
The Canadarm on the Space Shuttle

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Mega-Projects in Canada
Hydroelectric Project in northern Quebec

13. 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.

14. 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.