Finally, we can talk about Prince Edward’s little island. Being the nation’s mining newspaper and P.E.I. being our only virgin province, untouched by mining, we’ve had precious few opportunities to include it in our pages.
But now there is talk of driving a tunnel to the island. Applied Science graduates from the University of P.E.I. headed for a degree in mine engineering will no longer have to face jokes from their classmates at the Technical University of Nova Scotia about mining potatoes and beach sand. Spud Islanders may some day have a real undergound, albeit civil engineering, project all their own — complete with big capital expenditures, revenues and, one day, maybe even profits.
If and when the project actually gets underground, Islanders could very well see a tunnel boring machine in action, chewing its way through the rocks under the water and ice of the Northumberland Strait heading for the distant shores of New Brunswick.
By voting in favor of the fixed link to the rest of Canada, Islanders have become united to the rest of the country in more ways than one.
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