La communauté de Deline dans les TNO

The community of Deline in Canada's Northwest Territories. A move to reduce diesel use in communities like this one, were among your most read stories this week.
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Fishing, science missions and the end of diesel in the North? – Arctic week in review

On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this week:

– The five nations that boarder the Arctic Ocean signed a moratorium this month on fishing in the region. Does this mark a return of the Arctic Five?  Expert Heather Exner-Pirot explains.

-A story by Alaska Dispatch News takes readers along on an Arctic mission by scientists and the U.S. Coast Guard to better understand weather and environmental conditions in the region

-Has diesel power outlived it’s usefulness as the main power source in Canada’s remote communities? For several regions of Canada, including Yukon and the Northwest Territories, the answer is ‘Yes.’

-Arctic expert Mia Bennett looks at recent comments from Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski that in the Arctic, the United States “has a strategic geographic advantage that no other nation can match.”

– Wind power investments are down in Sweden, for the first time since the power trade organization Svensk Vindenergi began keeping track in 2012.

For more news and views from the Arctic, visit Eye on the Arctic 

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca

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