Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this week:
-Canada hands the two-year rotating chairmanship of the Arctic Council over to the United States today, and Arctic Council stories dominated northern coverage this week. You can check them all out at Eye on the Arctic’s Arctic Council 2015 section were we have interviews, articles, blogs and analysis
Elsewhere, energy and the environment dominated headlines in the European Arctic:
–Russia blames Norway for pollution in the Arctic Russian city of Murmansk
-A troubled Finnish mining company, previously responsible for environmental violations, is granted permission to construct a waste pipeline
-An in Canada, a company is proposing floating nuclear stations to power Arctic mining sites
And in this week’s Feature Interview, we talk to Arctic expert Rebecca Pincus, a visiting professor at the United States Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut and one of the editors of Diplomacy on Ice, about how the focus on conflict in the North is distracting us from facing the more pressing issues facing Arctic communities:
ListenFor more on your most read northern stories, visit Eye on the Arctic at RCInet.ca/arctic
Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca
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