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Bid to rename Arctic shipping route hits rough seas
Ottawa :: Canada | about 5 hours ago
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A bid to formally rename the country's Arctic shipping route the "Canadian Northwest Passage" — initially headed for clear sailing through the House of Commons — has hit rough seas and may be dead in the water amid Opposition concerns that Inuit leaders...
Tags: Daryl Kramp, northwest passage, Canada, Ottawa, Aboriginal peoples in Canadian territories, Indigenous peoples of North America, Politics, Hunter-gatherers, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Nunavut, Arctic Ocean, Inuit, Inuktitut
Alaska to auction petroleum rights in disputed Arctic waters
Toronto :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility The Alaskan government has announced plans to auction an oil and gas lease in a disputed section of the Beaufort Sea along the Yukon-Alaska border — an "incursion" on Canada's Arctic sovereignty that the Conservative government has failed to stop, the...
Tags: Canada-U.S, Beaufort Sea Areawide, U.S. Department of State, Alaskan, State of Alaska, Yukon-Alaska, Dennis Bevington, Canada, Toronto, Geography of Canada, Northwest Passage, Politics, North Slope Borough Alaska, Arctic Ocean, Territorial claims in the Arctic, Foreign relations of Canada, Beaufort Sea, Arctic
Canada an ‘energy superpower' in Arctic, Cannon says
Toronto :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 12:22AM EST T he Tory government says it believes in co-operation among the Arctic's coastal nations – as long as everyone is clear on Canada's superior role as an “energy superpower” when it comes to the north....
Tags: Economic Club of Canada, Lawrence Cannon, Canada, Toronto, Arctic, Poles, Northwest Passage, Territorial claims in the Arctic, Environment, Geography of Canada, Arctic Ocean, Shipping routes, Politics, North Pole, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Foreign relations of Canada
Inuvialuit examine Smithsonian artifacts
Yellowknife :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility A record 23 vessels, from rowboats to cargo ships, travelled through the Northwest Passage this year, the Canadian Coast Guard says. A group of about 10 Inuvialuit people has returned from Washington, D.C., after examining 19th-century Northwest Territories...
Tags: Northwest Passage, Canada, Yellowknife, Nunavut, Provinces and territories of Canada, Yukon, Beaufort Sea, Inuvialuit, Politics, Takhini River, Gendarmerie, Public Safety Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The final meltdown
El Dorado :: AR :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic Virgin Books £20, 298 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season Putnam $26.95, 294 pages The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle Jonathan...
Tags: Alun Anderson, climate change, Arctic Circle, Arctic Labyrinth, Glyn Williams, Sara Wheeler, Peter Nichols, final voyage, ft bookshop, old arctic, El Dorado, Arctic Ocean, Shipping routes, Arctic, Northwest Passage, Polar ice packs, Geography of Canada, Poles, Sea ice, Environment
SILENT SOUND is home safe & sound!
Some of you old Allvoices readers may remember my travel serial "Sailing to Solitude on Silent Sound" in which I chronicled some adventures of a sailing journey from Alaska to San Francisco on a 40 foot sailboat. If not, you can use the search engine...
Tags: sailing, allnews, silent sound, northwest passage
Inuit and military key to Arctic claims
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Climate change has now overturned traditional thinking and reshuffled the deck. New issues are emerging, primary among them being maritime traffic, natural resources and the environment, as well as many others. The circumpolar nations are already waking...
Tags: Northwest Passage, Canada, Toronto
Ottawa, Inuit near agreement on marine park for eastern Northwest Passage
Calgary :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Canada is moving to firm up control over the disputed Northwest Passage by designating the waters of its eastern entrance a national marine conservation area. Inuit officials have confirmed that talks are progressing on protecting Lancaster Sound, an...
Tags: Northwest Passage
Edmonton Sun, Canada: Impasse over Arctic passage
Calgary :: Canada | 7 months ago
Credibility Canada and the U.S. will partner on a strategy to develop the melting Arctic, but remain sharply at odds over transit rights through the Northwest Passage...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said the...
Tags: Canada, North Pole, Northwest Passage, sea ice, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, Arctic
Researchers plan first drive across Northwest Passage
Vancouver :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility An international team of scientists will try to avoid polar bears, frostbite and cracks in the sea ice, as they drive across the Northwest Passage in April. The expedition to monitor the effects of global warming will mark the first time the fabled high...
Tags: Northwest Passage, sea ice
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