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Fennovoima hopes to build the nuclear power station at Hanhikivi, 30 km south of the western city of Raahe in western Finland. (Fennovoima)
Business Finland 

Finland: Nuclear power plant to use Russian fuel

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 09:46
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A nuclear power plant slated to be built on Finland’s west coast would source its fuel from Russia, the contractor

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A Cruz Construction mechanics' truck leaves an exploration rig in Umiat, Alaska, via an ice road on March 8, 2013. (Courtesy Stephen Nowers / Cruz Construction / Alaska Dispatch)
Business USA 

Ice-road construction reaches new levels in Arctic Alaska

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 10:08
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Hundreds of miles of ice and snow roads are built from scratch every winter across the unforgiving Arctic wilderness, a

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(Talvivaara)
Business Finland 

Finland: Talvivaara mine laying off almost half of workforce

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 12:32
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The Talvivaara Mining Company announced Wednesday that it has concluded cooperation consultations with personnel and that it will be laying

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Last year storms blew down thousands of trees and now warm weather is muddying dirt roads, making removing downed logs harder. (Marcus Frånberg/Sveriges Radio)
Business Sweden 

Weather deals double blow to Sweden’s timber industry

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 10:39
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The weather has dealt Sweden’s timber industry a double blow this year and now loggers are looking at lower profits

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‘When they were going to go through Steensby, they did all kinds of environmental testing on walrus, baseline data, and all that kind of stuff… but they haven't done that in Milne Inlet,’ says Clyde River mayor, Jerry Natanine. (Courtesy Baffinland )
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Arctic Canadian mayor worried about mine’s shipping route

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 10:21
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Hearings are scheduled to begin in the Arctic Canadian community of Clyde River today into Baffinland’s Mary River mine project.

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Map of Block 6, the area awarded to Statoil off east Greenland. (Statoil)
Business Norway 

Statoil awarded exploration licence off Greenland

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 08:29
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I missed this over the holidays, but Norway’s Statoil, along with partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil, has been awarded an exploration

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The coast near the village of Kivalina, Alaska. Ships in the upper right wait to be loaded from the Red Dog copper mine. (Al Grillo/AP)
Business USA 

Waste pollutants: Discharge permits or pipeline for Alaska mine?

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, January 6, 2014 at 16:19
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Wastes from the Red Dog Mine and its port will continue to flow into the creek alongside the huge lead-zinc

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Road in Stockholm, Sweden. Sales of electric cars in the country remain tiny. (Johan Nilsson / SCANPIX / AFP)
Business Sweden 

Weak sales of electric cars and hybrids in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, January 3, 2014 at 17:02
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Just 1,500 new electric and hybrids vehicles were sold last year in Sweden, a fraction of the total number of

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(Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
Business Sweden 

Demand ups Sweden’s reindeer meat prices

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, January 3, 2014 at 15:11
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Higher demand and a stagnant supply has driven up the price of reindeer meat in Sweden as consumers shop for

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(The Canadian Press)
Business Denmark/Greenland Special Features 

Danish shipper plans more Arctic trips

The Canadian Press
Posted: Friday, January 3, 2014 at 12:55
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The company that made the first commercial transit of the Northwest Passage plans to increase its shipments through the legendary

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A Coast Guard helicopter crew lands on frozen sea ice in front of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy outside the Port of Nome on Jan. 18, 2012. (U.S. Coast Guard)
Business USA 

Alaska fuel companies reach settlement in Nome fuel delivery

Jill Burke | Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 15:36
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Bulk fuel supplier Delta Western and Nome fuel distributor Bonanza Fuel are ready to settle up, ending a fight about

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(Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
Business USA 

Cook Inlet activity suggests boosted oil and gas production may be on the way for Alaska

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, December 30, 2013 at 11:57
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A subsidiary of Alaska’s wealthiest homegrown corporation is expanding its footprint in Cook Inlet to support increasing industrial activity there,

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Foxes are one animal farmed for their fur rather than their meat. (Kalle Niskala / Yle)
Business Finland 

Mild winter affects Finland’s fur farming industry

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 11:51
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One business casualty of the milder winter will delight animal rights activists: the Saga Furs auction house. The company’s auction

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Piplines runing from the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope in 2006. (Al Grillo / AP)
Business USA 

Alaska: Oil industry spends $1 million against referendum

APRN
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 11:42 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:23
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Vote No on 1 registered as a political group in October, and already they’ve broken the million-dollar mark. They’ve taken

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Åsa Persson with the Mining Inspectorate of Sweden. (Nils Eklund / Sveriges Radio)
Business Sweden 

Sweden: Mine applications hit new low in 2013

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 11:13
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The number of mining applications for exploration permits has dropped to a new low this year, leading some to believe

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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