Leaving Ulukhaktok? Not so fast!

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 04:36
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We got into our small plane this morning ( I was told it was a Beech 9). We got the safety drill and the plane taxied down the runway. As it was doing so I noticed all the windows icing up, me and the other 5 odd passengers tooked at each other quizzically but didn’t say anything.

Then, just as we were about to lift off, the plane turned around and came right back.

The pilots said they had to fix something and that it would take 10 to 15 mintues. Well, 10-15 minutes turned into an hour. We got word that the heater on the plane was broken and that they were flying another plane and crew up to Ulukhaktok from Norman Wells (a community further south in the Northwest Territories).

We’s have to go back to down and wait another five hours or so…

Here we go again….

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

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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