Eye on the Arctic news round-up
A round-up of stores making headlines across the North.
Canada
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada’s national Inuit organization, decries the lack of increased funding for mental wellness or housing for northern Inuit communities in the federal budget tabled this week.
Finland
The country’s environment minister says there’s more opportunities for mining in the country’s Arctic as long as companies are socially responsible. Elsewhere, activists say they’ll appeal a decision from the government permitting uranium mining in Kainuu, located in the country’s northeast.
Norway
Environment ministers from the Nordic countries agree to fight emissions at a conference in Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic. Meanwhile wreckage of a Norwegian Hercules plane has been located in a mountain range in Arctic Sweden.
Russia
Barents Observer is reporting that the director of Kolskya, a rig that capsized and sank in the Sea of Okhotsk last December, has been fired.
Sweden
The Arctic Council met in Stokholm this week.
United States (Alaska)
In 2011, a bear attacked a group of students camping in the Alaskan wilderness. The National Outdoor Leadership School has completed a report on the attack. Alaska Dispatch has compiled a two-part series on the findings, walking readers through the chaotic events of that day. For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here.
*Friday, April 3 is a holiday in Canada. The next Eye on the Arctic news round-up will go out on Friday, April 13
Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca
