For years now, the St. Lawrence Economic Development Council (SODES) has been closely monitoring the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) icebreaking fleet renewal file and has expressed its concerns regarding this situation many times. The condition of the increasingly aging, obsolete icebreaking fleet threatens to significantly affect icebreaking services to be provided by the CCG on the St. Lawrence and Saguenay rivers.
On this subject, SODES invites you to consult two articles published in Le Soleil (February 17 and 18 – in French only):
- La Garde côtière défaillante, Guillaume Piedboeuf and Annie Mathieu, Le Soleil, February 17, 2017
- Rio Tamara : la garde côtière admet avoir failli, Guillaume Piedboeuf, Le Soleil, Le Quotidien, February 18, 2017
