Underground Tunnel

This response is to the article “Tunnel Vision” in the Sunday March 18th edition of the Toronto Star.

There is currently a project to dig a 10 kilometre tunnel under the City of Niagara Falls. The purpose is to provide more hydro electricity to Ontario. The whole process of cutting though large amounts of rock will take 2 years, with 300 meters so far being dug up.

It is amazing what the whole scope of this project represents. To be able to go underground, under a place such as the City of Niagara, and now create a new space under it. Not even solid rock that is millions of years old is safe from being reshaped. It also raises an interesting point. Is space underground part of the place above it? If it is deep enough is the ownership circumvented and a new space created for whoever dug it?

As counties fight over land space, air space and ‘water space’, it is interesting to think of how things might turn out if there would be issues over ‘underground space’.