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Business Briefs Guy Quenneville Monday, November 10, 2008 Previous columns 
Taxi service may close Kugluktuk's only taxi service, Triple A Taxi, may very well close soon, according to employee Tony Demerah. Of the business' 10 trucks, only one is working and there isn't a garage in town that can fix them, said Demerah. "We're pretty much screwed," he said. The one functional car is being used "sparingly," he added, exclusively for picking up people from the airport. The company has considered shipping cars down south by barge and getting them back next year, but Demerah said the most likely outcome will be the closing of the business. Premier touts pipeline Premier Floyd Roland made some bold statements about the Mackenzie Gas Project in Halifax last week while attending a closed-door meeting of premiers on ways to help Canadians use less energy. Roland said based on current gas prices, the Mackenzie project could bring $86.3 billion to Canada's economy and generate $9.5 billion for the federal government. Based on the support he received at the meeting, Roland said he will seek an audience with Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the trouble pipeline project. More wings Transportation provider Hoarfrost River Huskies Ltd., located 50 miles northeast of Lutsel K'e, recently added a new plane to its roster. In July, the company received a made-in-Canada Bush Hawk, similar in size to a Cessna 206, from Whitehorse, according to co-owner Dave Olsen, who runs the business with his wife Kirsten. The plane can seat five people besides the pilot. "It has quite a spacious cargo area, especially when you're not using the seats," he said. Catering to drilling needs Inuvik catering company Arctic Oil and Gas Services (AOGS) should do almost as much business as last year once the oil and gas winter drilling season begins next month, according to catering manager Mike Connors. Connors said AOGS will providing food to three camps for MGM Energy, which is drilling four wells north of Inuvik this year. "Each camp ought to have about five to six people working it," he said. Going mobile Snowmobile sales at the Katudgevik Co-op in Coral Harbour are strong so far this year, according to manager Stephane Daigle. "We have 12 in stock now," he said. "We'll probably sell a few before Christmas. "But it's when people get their taxes back in early March that things really pick up," he said. Christmas slowdown Business is good at the Igloolik Inn. The 14-room hotel currently has only three vacancies, according to supervisor Ione Awa, going on her fourth year at the hotel. "It's starts to slow down for Christmas during the first or second week of December," said Awa.
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