“Projects such as Polaris could be Canada’s best means of maintaining Arctic sovereignty,” he adds. (This very point was expressed in an editorial in The Northern Miner when Canada was proposing to purchase an extremely costly fleet of nuclear submarines.)
A graduate from Camborne School of Mines at Cornwall, England, in 1964, Keen worked at the Aunor mine at Timmins for three years as junior engineer and underground shift boss. Then he had another 3-year stint with Inco at Sudbury (Levack and Coleman mines) as planning engineer before he joined the Cominco organization in 1970.
His work at the big British Columbia-based complex involved a variety of engineering and operating positions, including three years as mine superintendent at its Black Angel mine in Greenland, eight years as underground superintendent at the Sullivan mine at Kimberley, B.C., and two years managing the Con gold mine at Yellowknife, N.W.T.
The North seems to attract some of the best people who handle well challenges such as those posed by Polaris, says Keen. Over the years its people have provided innovative solutions to its unique problems.
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