New survey suggests new gas and oil reserves for Norway

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 21:14
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Norway may be in for an even bigger economic boom after a new survey in the previously disputed area of the Barents Sea has uncovered significant gas and oil, reports the Barents Observer.

Norway’s Oil and Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe is quoted in the report as saying that the country’s Arctic Finnmark region is poised as “Norway’s next oil province.”

Norway and Russia settled a decades old territorial dispute in the Barents Sea in 2010.

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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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