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Politics, energy & climate: Arctic week in review

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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this week

Opinion and analysis overwhelmingly caught your attention in the first week of 2015:

– In Arctic Council: The evolving role of regions in Arctic governance, Heather Exner-Pirot, Managing editor of Arctic Yearbook, looks at  sub-national governments and whether they’re a missing link when it comes to international Arctic politics.

– A study in the science journal Nature recently looked at the cost of extracting fossil fuels on global temperatures. In Arctic oil and gas must stay in ground to restrict warming to 2°C says study Mia Bennett from the blog Cryopolitics looks what this could mean for people in Arctic regions like Greenland and Nunavut.

– And from Alaska Dispatch, a look at how oil price drops will effect the state’s tax revenues in World oil price decline siphons billions of dollars expected by Alaska

Those are the highlights from this week! We’ll be back on Monday with more stories and newsmakers from across the North.

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca

 

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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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