Eye on the Arctic news round-up
A round-up of stories that made headlines across the North this week.
Canada
Harry Winston Diamond Corporation announces it will buy BHP Billiton’s Ekati diamond mine located in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Finland
Investigations begin into the environmental crisis at the Talvivaara mine in east Finland.
Greenland
A new study from Norway’s Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research suggests Greenland’s ice sheet is particularily vulnerable to the changing climate.
Iceland
Finland’s prime minister says next year’s patrolling mission in Icelandic airspace is a peacetime exercise, not a combat mission.
Russia
Russia orders the shutdown of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East (RAIPON).
Sweden
Commerical shale gas drilling may be coming to Sweden.
United States
A lawyer representing several Yup’ik fisherman in Alaska charged with illegal fishing is planning a religious defense. He says fishing is central to the fisherman’s culture and that it’s unconstitutional to criminalize a protected right to religious freedom and cultural identity.
Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca
