page 10 page 2 ‘Guitar Frenzy’ Antigonish coming to page 11 celebrates Strathspey Place Dalbrae wins win in Aviva contest December 14 Richmond tournament porthawkesburyreporter.com Vol. 40, No. 50 December 13, 2017 117623 Design teams get to work on Strait area launch site by Matt Draper The Reporter get out to the proposed launch site on De-
[email protected] cember 13, weather permitting. Last March, MLS selected Canso as the site of a rocket launch base after looking DARTMOUTH: It’s a busy week for a at several communities in North Amer- company looking to establish a rocket ica. launch site in the Strait area. “Things are progressing at an ex- Maritime Launch Services (MLS) tremely rapid pace,” said Matier. “It’s hosted a Canso Spaceport project team been one year since we submitted our kick-off event on December 11, which lease application to the Department of included partners Lindsay Construction Natural Resources [DNR] and we’ve got and the Yuzhnoye State Design Offi ce, the the [environmental assessment] that is Ukraine company tasked with designing almost done and will go in the fi rst week rockets for the project. or second of January. All of this is on MLS president Steve Matier called the schedule for basically getting to a point meeting a signifi cant ramp-up in activi- of starting construction in May.” ties associated with the project. If the company receives approval from “It’s about getting these teams together the Department of Environment, Matier to iron out some of the roles and respon- said they have to fi nalize the land lease sibilities associated with design,” said with DNR.