Sentences with phrase «ice roads»

It has very good leather seats, and amazing four wheel drive especially on ice roads.

And in the north, thinner ice and shorter winters have limited the use of ice roads, producing higher costs for industries and communities.

Yet businesses, including oil and gas companies or mining firms looking north, face risks including that permafrost will thaw and ruin ice roads, buildings and pipelines.

What kills you on ice roads is financial risk, not the actual ice.

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Day 1 (afternoon): Motel classroom slide show, vehicle / chain familiarisation, Canadian ice road video critique, optional dinner at local pub.

Newer technologies that are applied today in Alaska's expanding North Slope oil fields include directional drilling that allows for multiple well heads on smaller drill pads; the re-injection of drilling wastes into the ground, which replaces surface reserve pits; better delineation of oil reserves using 3 - dimensional seismic surveys, which has reduced the number of dry holes; and use of temporary ice pads and ice roads for conducting exploratory drilling and construction in the winter.

Even gradual climate change could cause abrupt problems in coming decades, including melting ice roads such as this one in Canada and making them impassable, a new report concludes.

The warmer winter of 2006 cost the Diavik diamond mine an extra $ 11 million, as it had to fly in 15 million litres of fuel rather than driving it in over ice roads.

Isn't there a happy medium between a couch potato watching Ice Road Trucker repeats and Mr. Party Dude that needs to exercise his viagra prescription?

Warming temperatures in the Great White North are melting important ice roads and heating waterways beyond optimal temperatures for some fish

For example, thinner lake ice may help fish overwintering, or it may help the oil industry since they need lake water to build winter ice roads.

In northern Canada, for instance, some 4 million square miles of real estate lie north of rail lines and all - weather highways, and warming winters are making seasonally - constructed ice roads less reliable.

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This Land Rover commands freeway commutes, rutted ice roads, rocky stream crossings, and date nights, all with the same cool lack of drama and ready - for - anything attitude.

When ice roads allow year - round access, and cottagers keep the building heated through the winter but can't regularly drop by, «that adds a level of risk.»

I'm doing a project on ice roads, which combines economics and cryospheric science.

«It's been a game changer for us,» says Ernie Montagna, equipment manager for Original Productions, the company that produces reality - TV hits such as Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, and Ax Men.

In Finland and other high - latitude countries, warmer winters could also mean the disappearance of ice roads, which help connect areas difficult to reach on regular routes.

Within a decade, ice roads to northern mines will increasingly become impassable mud ruts, making shipping a preferable option.

Listen if your man has to be an Ice Road Trucker and drive his fingers across the frozen tundra just to get you warmed up night after night then one day he's going to drop his logs off somewhere easier to park.

For example, Canadian mine companies worry that the melting ice in the Arctic could include the ice roads drivers use to access remote locations.

Lumber, ice roads and reindeer at risk During the summer months, the newly ice - free parts of the ocean take in much more heat than they used to.

Ice roads are dead.»

Historically, ice roads were open three months during the winter.

Near Yellowknife, in Canada's remote Northwest Territories, Volkswagen showed us some of the science that goes into creating massive ice highways like those you've seen on shows such as «Ice Road Truckers» — or, for locals, routes like Dettah Road, which traverses a portion of the Great Slave Lake's 300 - mile span, enabling vehicular access to areas reachable only by boat most of the year.

Also on stage that evening will be Jessi Combs and Bogi Lateiner from Velocity's «All Girl Garage,» Alex Debogorski from «Ice Road Truckers,» Lou Santiago and Jared Zimmerman from «Velocity's Car Fix» and Dan Short from Velocity's «Fantomworks.»

Born and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in Los Angeles and has worked as a TV producer, notably for the History Channel's Ice Road Truckers and Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch.

It's also «surprisingly comfortable and roomy,» according to auto writer Nadine Filion, who piloted one across the Polar Circle on an ice road.

It does have all the epic Sweden attractions you would expect in Lapland in winter, like seeing the northern lights, ice fishing, driving on ice roads, dog sledding, snowmobiles, you name it!

Operating every winter since 1998 we are Gippsland's «ice road truckers»....

In winter, only about nine million gallons of liquid water are available in the 1002 Area, which is enough to feeze into and maintain only 10 miles of ice roads.

* increased freezing depths of rivers and lakes as a result of water extraction (for ice road and pad construction and for oil well re-injection), killing overwintering fish and aquatic invertebrates

The Weather Channel has a new series, «Turbine Cowboys», on Wind turbine technicians, done sort of along the lines of «Ice Road Truckers» and «The Deadliest Catch».

«The changes in ice and the shortened winter affect Northern communities that depend on ice roads to transport goods,» Surdu said.

«Ice roads won't exist any more.»

The stable design and wide tires did well on ice roads and the snirt (for you sun - belters, that's a slippery mixture of snow and dirt), and the pedal - assist certainly came in handy when plowing through small drifts of snow.

Popular Mechanics — 10 Roads to the End of the Earth — Phil Berg — Proud to say that Canada's ice road to Tuktoyaktuk made the number one spot in this slideshow and survey of many miles of bad road.

Supervised crews for new construction and maintained all pipelines, roads, and pads, bladed road, built roads, drill sites and ice roads, conducted snow removal operations

My daughter lives in your area and she has been going through just about the same thing - her kids are having a blast on the ice roads!