Eye on the Arctic news round-up
A round-up of stories that made headlines across the North this week.
Canada
Canada’s national Inuit organization challenges the EU seal ban in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Finland
Controversy continues at the crisis-hit Talvivaara mine in east Finland.
Greenland
Greenland denounces Russia’s closure of RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East.)
Norway
The Norwegian armed forces stage a large-scale military exericise in the country’s Far North.
Russia
Some 46 vessels have travelled the Northern Sea Route in the 2012 navigation season.
United States
A new caribou study raises questions about oil development in Alaska.
Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca