Daily Courier.  Several months after the town of Inuvik, N.W.T., David Ramsay, NWT, LNG, Natural Gas, Inuvik, oil, natural gas, pipeline, Photo by Dave Harbourbegan trucking in liquefied natural gas to generate some of its power, the territorial government wants to do the same in smaller communities that continue to rely on dirtier and costlier diesel.

But David Ramsay (NGP Photo), whose cabinet responsibilities in the Northwest Territories government include investment

Eye On The Arctic by Ellis Quinn.  Premier Harper will visit Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory, the Northwest Territories and the eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut from August 21 -26.

“Our Government is working to support Northerners as they take control of their destinies, by providing tools, training, technology and infrastructure,” Harper said in a news release on Tuesday. “Northerners today are better equipped to seize tremendous local opportunities, and to develop northern solutions for northern challenges.”

and industry, said the long-term ambition is to have the territory's own vast undeveloped natural gas resources be consumed both by its citizens and by those in markets to the south.

"We've got to try and get communities off of diesel," Ramsay said in an interview from Sudbury, Ont., where he brought up the topic with fellow provincial and territorial natural resources ministers.

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