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From Obama to ANWR to Arctic drilling, news from Alaska dominated many headlines this week:
– Shell announces it intends to restart drilling in Arctic Alaska this summer, at the same time that ConocoPhillips announces it will be scaling back operations in Alaska’s
-President Obama’s move to increase protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ignited praise from environmental groups and condemnation from some politicians and Inupiat communities
-And in the European Arctic, fierce reaction to photos of Russian submariners feeding polar bears with garbage
And in our Friday Feature Interview, the Quebec Bar Association has issued a scathing report on the state of justice in the province’s remote northern aboriginal communities.
Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn speaks with Bernard Synnott, president of the Quebec Bar Association about the language issues, cultural misunderstandings and infrastructure struggles he’s witnessed first-hand, and what’s at stake if governments don’t do something to fix it:
ListenWrite to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca
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