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TABLE 2-30: TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, HEALTH BAY Transportation Mode/ Infrastructure Air Services & Infrastructure KINGCOME Description Transportation Assessment of the Central & North Coast of BC • Scheduled seaplane service via Port Mc Neill-based Pacific Eagle Aviation Ltd. Ferry/Water taxi • Chartered water taxi services available from Port McNeill Private/commercial vessel • The Kwicksutaineuk First Nation is attempting to acquire a vessel to provide local water taxi services Road • no road access Kingcome (also known as Gwa’Yi Village) is a Tsawataineuk Aboriginal community located at the head of remote Kingcome Inlet. There are approximately 90 residents at Kingcome and approximately 420 band members who live elsewhere. There is an on-demand scheduled seaplane service to Campbell River via Vancouver Island Air and to Port McNeill via Pacific Eagle Aviation (a “mail run” service to a few locations). There is a small government dock with no breakwater, which lies approximately three kilometers from the community so residents must travel by boat down the Kingcome River to reach the dock. There was a dock for float plane service on the river but it was destroyed in flooding and the exposed dock must now be used. The band council and administration have a proposal to develop a road between the community and the dock and improve the float dock. The community currently relies on chartered water taxi services from Port McNeill but may use the service being developed by the Kwicksutaineuk First Nation. TABLE 2-31: TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, KINGCOME Transportation Mode/ Infrastructure Air Services & Infrastructure Description • Scheduled seaplane service to Port Mc Neill-based Pacific Eagle Aviation Ltd. and to Campbell River via Vancouver Island Air Ferry/Water Taxi • Chartered water taxi services available from Port McNeill Road • no road access Chisholm Consulting 60
3. SWOT ASSESSMENT Transportation Assessment of the Central & North Coast of BC During the process of preparing the situation analysis (Section 2), we have obtained an information base to use in the first stage of assessment. Our research findings have demonstrated each region and community’s strongest transportation assets, and where the challenges lie. The next step is to use a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) to help focus on key transportation issues. By taking a regional approach to the SWOT assessment, we can identify the key overarching issues that affect current and future transportation development on the Central and North Coast, and Kitimat. 3.1 Air Transportation CENTRAL COAST Strengths • Scheduled flights available to Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Klemtu • All communities served by charter fixed wing and/or helicopter • Pacific Coastal Airlines and charter fixed wing and helicopter companies that serve Central Coast are profitable, have long history in region, well-established • Paved landing strips in Bella Coola, Bella Bella & Shearwater • Gravel landing strip at Wuikinuxv • Klemtu, Denny Island (Shearwater), Dawson’s <strong>Land</strong>ing & Ocean Falls accessible by float plane • Local pilots have extensive knowledge & experience in region Opportunities • Growing demand for ecotourism, heliskiing, adventure travel • Limited growth of shellfish aquaculture & herring roe on kelp shipments to overseas market • Construction of new energy projects (transportation of supplies & workers to camps) • Long term emergence of new industries such as drinking water export, non-timber forest products • Central Coast model of ecologically-based growth as a draw for more visitors Weaknesses • No direct scheduled air connection between inner and outer Central Coast • Wuikinuxv has unpaved landing strip, used seasonally • Airport landing strips do not have lights for nighttime evacuation • Weather and prohibition on night flying can delay response to medical emergencies that require air evacuation • Airport in Bella Bella congested during summer months & needs larger terminal • Local travelers given lower priority during summer months • No local training in avionics or aeronautics Threats • Weather conditions during winter limits reliability of air travel • Loss of local industry & govt offices means fewer professional air travelers than in the past • Rising fuel and other operating costs • Risk of flooding of Bella Coola airport under extreme winter conditions Chisholm Consulting 61
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