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Eye on the Arctic news round-up

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 11, 2013 at 19:32
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A round-up of stories that made headlines across the North this week.

Canada

A group of orcas trapped in the ice in northern Quebec are freed.

Finland

The Finnish Snow Sculpting Championship gets underway this weekend in the northern city of Kemi.

Norway

An environmental watchdog questions drilling plans in the southeastern part of the Barents Sea.

Russia

A special report from the Barents Observer on the rise in nuclear warheads deployed from the Kola Peninsula.

Sweden

A wind power company is questioned over the danger of ice build up on turbines in northern Sweden

United States

Several probes will examine the offshore drilling program in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

**The Eye on the Arctic news round-up will be back on Friday, January 25.

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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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

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