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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

‘Hazards to the community’: How plans for a Nunavut fuel tank farm fell apart

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 10:29
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A director with the Government of Nunavut warned his department that a plan for a new fuel tank farm in

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Resupply of aviation fuel in Norman Wells, N.W.T., slated for January

CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 22, 2023 at 12:04
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By Robert Holden · CBC News  Airlines still having to ‘eat the cost’ of the delay, says North-Wright Airways Imperial Oil is

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Norman Wells, N.W.T., is running out of aviation fuel

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 09:21
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‘To have this land on our lap, it’s not good, It’s not good at all,’ says North-Wright Airways president The

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Three months after Moscow’s delivery law, crisis looms in Arctic

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 10:44
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“Our region is on the verge of an emergency situation,” a woman from the far northern Nenets Autonomous region warns

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Featured • Zone 3 General 

Construction starts on new access road to Inuvialuit gas plant in N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 3, 2023 at 10:53
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Plant will eventually fuel Inuvialuit communities for decades Work has started on a new access road off the N.W.T.’s Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk

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* Featured * Business Business (Finland) Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

Tourism in Finnish Lapland faces uncertainty due to sanctions on Russia

Saara-Maria Salonen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, April 11, 2022 at 17:14
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The closure of Russian airspace is causing uncertainty in Lapland’s tourism industry, which has relied heavily on travel from Asian

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Environment Environment (Russia) Russia 

Russian Indigenous groups call on Elon Musk to boycott company behind Arctic environmental disasters

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 7, 2020 at 11:10
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The company that recently made international headlines for causing environmental disasters on the Taimyr Peninsula by spilling 20,000 tons of

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

New “Frankenstein” shipping fuel could further pollute the Arctic, environmental groups say

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 12:33 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 09:33
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A coalition of environmental groups is demanding answers from the oil refining and shipping industries after it emerged that new

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Taxing carbon in Canada’s diesel-dependent North

CBC Radio
Posted: Monday, October 7, 2019 at 15:32 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:25
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People living off-grid in the Northwest Territories witness climate change every day, but in remote communities where power and heat

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General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s rising fuel prices spark protest rally in Stockholm

Liv Lewitschnik, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, September 23, 2019 at 10:51 — Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2019 at 14:03
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Less than a kilometre away from a large climate action protest outside Sweden’s parliament, protesters from the countryside staged their

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Government to boost fuel storage in Canada’s Northwest Territories

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 30, 2019 at 16:15
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The Canadian and Northwest Territories governments have announced a plan to increase fuel storage in the territory, which they say

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Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

What you need to know about the federal carbon tax in Yukon, northwestern Canada

Kaila Jefferd-Moore, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 16:00
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The federal government first announced its carbon pricing program back in 2018. It began in Ontario, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Fuel shortage hits small community in Arctic Canada

CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2019 at 13:53
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There was no fuel in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic, for most of this week after the hamlet’s

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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

LNG could fuel towns in Arctic Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 11:20
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Local authorities along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) are starting to plan for deliveries of a new energy source. The

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Communities in northern Canada struggling with high fuel prices

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 17, 2018 at 17:20
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In Aklavik, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, $40 worth of gas won’t get you very far. “You barely get five gallons

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Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

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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