Editing Yellowknife (section)

=== Utilities and services ===

==== Communications ====
Yellowknife's telephone services were established in 1947 by the independent Yellowknife Telephone Company, owned by investors mostly within the community. The system was sold at the end of 1963 to [[Northwestel|Canadian National Telecommunications]], now Northwestel. Northwestel also provides manual mobile telephone service on VHF frequencies, and by the 1990s also provided cellular services that were later transferred to [[Bell Mobility]]. In 2008, northern-based company [[Ice Wireless]] entered the market in Yellowknife, providing digital cellular products and services.

Yellowknife's television services, in addition to over-the-air transmission begun in 1967, included the Mackenzie Media cable television system placed in service 1 September 1972, which was sold to Northwestel in late 1995.

==== Electricity ====
[[File:Jackfish Lake generating station 02.JPG|thumb|The Jackfish Diesel Plant provides power for Yellowknife. It is operated by the [[Northwest Territories Power Corporation]].]]
Electricity is provided to Yellowknife by [[Northland Utilities]], serving 6,350&nbsp;residential and 800&nbsp;commercial customers. Yellowknife operates almost entirely on [[hydroelectricity]] from the Snare-Bluefish systems,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iti.gov.nt.ca/publications/2009/energy/FShistoryofelectricityNWT.pdf|title=Energy Generation|publisher=Government of the Northwest Territories|access-date=23 January 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> provided by the [[Northwest Territories Power Corporation]] (NTPC). NTPC's local production capacity is 67.9&nbsp;megawatts, 30.89&nbsp;MW from 10 generators at the Jackfish Diesel Plant, 28.8&nbsp;MW from Snare Lake, and 7.5&nbsp;MW from Miramar Bluefish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ntpc.com/communities/powergeneration.html|title=NTPC Profile|publisher=[[Northwest Territories Power Corporation]]|access-date=23 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321093108/http://www.ntpc.com/communities/powergeneration.html |archive-date=21 March 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==== Solid waste services ====
Residential garbage removal is through a user pay system, in which residents are allowed three {{cvt|77|L}} garbage bags per week; any additional bags must have a purchased tag.<ref name="community profile 07" /> The City of Yellowknife Solid Waste Management Facility is located on the [[Ingraham Trail]] (Highway 4) {{cvt|2|km}} north of the city;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cjeffery.com/images/City_Facilities_Map.pdf |title=City Facilities |access-date=2 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708161440/http://www.cjeffery.com/images/City_Facilities_Map.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> salvaging is encouraged, and the dump is infamous for the number of still useful items often found in it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2007-09/sep19_07dm.html|title=Treasure hunting at the dump|publisher=[[Northern News Services]]|access-date=23 January 2008|df=dmy-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204161913/https://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2007-09/sep19_07dm.html|archive-date=4 February 2008}}</ref>

==== Water and sewage treatment ====
The City of Yellowknife provides pressurized [[Drinking water|potable water]] throughout the majority of the city, and has a network of gravity-fed sewage lines; trucked water and sewage is provided in areas not serviced by piped infrastructure. [[Sewage]], with the aid of lift stations, is pumped to a series of lakes, referred to as Fiddler's Lake Lagoon, where it is held and allowed to naturally decompose. Water is obtained from the Yellowknife River and is disinfected with [[chlorine]] and liquid [[Water fluoridation|fluoride]] is added, but is not otherwise filtered or treated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pws.gov.nt.ca/water/Communtiy_Desc/Yellowknife.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404140419/http://www.pws.gov.nt.ca/water/Communtiy_Desc/Yellowknife.htm |archive-date=4 April 2009|title=Yellowknife Water Supply|publisher=Public Works & Services, GNWT|access-date=23 January 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref>