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drill a test well on Shoal Point, near the Port Au Port
Peninsula. The company has been exploring in the area over the last few years. It discovered some oil there in 2008. "At the turn of the century there were several wells on the Port Au Port Peninsula, and Shoal Point, that produced somewhere between 20 to 25 barrels a day," said Kirby Mercer, CIVC's vice-president. "Now, we're going in with modern technology, modern tools. So we hope to extract the black gold using modern technology." Mercer said if the company receives approval for a test well and drilling is successful, CIVC hopes the Offshore Petroleum Board will then approve a significant discovery licence. That would bring the company one step closer to establishing an oil-producing well in western Newfoundland.
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A Canadian energy company may soon get the green light to begin drilling for oil off
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The Port au Port
Peninsula's economy is based on natural resources, namely fishing. Limited forestry takes place in the unsettled areas of the interior, and a small amount of subsistence farming takes place along coastal areas. Many residents of the peninsula, particularly the communities at the
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Scattered settlement continued in the area until 1904, when France relinquished its right of use to the "French Shore". The Port au Port
Peninsula represents the most varied ethnic and linguistic mix in the entire island of Newfoundland, including Mi'kmaq families with the highest proportion of
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In 2022, a "hydrogen alliance" was forged between Canada and
Germany. As part of this project, a network of 164 wind turbines was announced, taking advantage of the favorable wind conditions in Port au Port. However, the project has yet to undergo full environmental review.
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chain which runs along
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and northwest 50 km to the fingerlike Long Point which by itself is approximately 25 km in length. The eastern shore of the peninsula is irregular, jutting into Port au Port Bay.
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and Basque fishermen used the west coast of
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community, the peninsula has been designated the only bilingual district on the island of
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families, who came from Nova Scotia with the French to fight the
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The French Treaty Shore: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
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585:Le Gaboteur
514:Winterhouse
504:Salmon Cove
361:Communities
308:Nova Scotia
161:sedimentary
966:Categories
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596:References
563:Piccadilly
539:Following
529:Long Point
524:Blue Beach
480:Following
435:Lower Cove
400:Felix Cove
381:Following
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300:steel mill
197:reserves.
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157:geological
897:12 August
573:Aguathuna
568:Boswarlos
541:Route 463
482:Route 463
455:Red Brook
430:Ship Cove
383:Route 460
292:Aguathuna
288:limestone
195:petroleum
191:sandstone
183:limestone
179:carbonate
170:to early
101:Geography
867:Archived
862:CBC News
753:CBC News
727:CBC News
624:CBC News
579:See also
553:Tea Cove
494:Mainland
168:Cambrian
87:Canadian
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936:48°34′N
548:Lourdes
509:Lourdes
450:De Grau
277:Kippens
270:Economy
249:Acadian
215:Mi'kmaq
201:History
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304:Sydney
211:French
189:, and
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