Transportation and Works
Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs
December 22, 2009
Residents of Black Tickle to Benefit from Air Travel
Subsidy
The Honourable Tom
Hedderson, Minister of Transportation and Works, today
announced that residents of Black Tickle, Labrador, will
be entitled to the same air travel subsidy as was
announced for residents of Williams Harbour yesterday.
�Just like Williams
Harbour, the community of Black Tickle is on an island
that is currently cut off from the Labrador mainland due
to ice conditions that do not allow snowmobile travel,�
said Minister Hedderson. �It is important, especially
during the holiday season, that residents of Black
Tickle are able to travel to and from their community
and we are pleased to be offering the same assistance
that we are offering to Williams Harbour.�
Effective immediately,
government will pay 50 per cent of the cost of
commercial airline travel between Black Tickle and
Cartwright once a week. As is the case with the service
announced for Williams Harbour, this subsidy will end as
soon as ice conditions allow snowmobile travel to
commence.
�I am pleased that we
have been able to step up to address the unique
transportation challenges of another isolated Labrador
community,� said the Honourable John Hickey, Minister of
Labrador Affairs. �We have demonstrated, time and again,
our commitment to serving the transportation needs of
the people of the province and this is just one more
example of that commitment.�
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Media contacts:
Roger Scaplen
Director of Communications
Department of Transportation and Works
709-729-3015, 697-5267
rogerscaplen@gov.nl.ca |
John
Tompkins
Director of Communications
Department of Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs
709-729-1674, 728-7762
jtompkins@gov.nl.ca |
2009 12 22
4:55 p.m.
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