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Taxing carbon in Canada’s diesel-dependent North

7 October 2019 15 h 32 min — 11 October 2019 13 h 25 min CBC Radio 0 Comments climagte change, diesel, First Nations, Fort Providence, fuel, indigenous, Northwest Territories, NWT, remote communities

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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Sweden’s rising fuel prices spark protest rally in Stockholm

23 September 2019 10 h 51 min — 23 September 2019 14 h 03 min Liv Lewitschnik, Radio Sweden 0 Comments fuel, remote communities, rural, Stockholm

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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Government to boost fuel storage in Canada’s Northwest Territories

30 August 2019 16 h 15 min CBC News 0 Comments energy, fuel, Northwest Territories, NWT

The Canadian and Northwest Territories governments have announced a plan to increase fuel storage in the territory, which they say

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

2 July 2019 16 h 00 min Kaila Jefferd-Moore, CBC News 0 Comments carbon tax, emissions, fuel, Yukon

The federal government first announced its carbon pricing program back in 2018. It began in Ontario, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and

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Fuel shortage hits small community in Arctic Canada

28 June 2019 13 h 53 min CBC News 0 Comments fuel, Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, supply, transport

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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LNG could fuel towns in Arctic Russia

3 April 2019 11 h 20 min Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, fuel, gas, LNG, Novatek, Yamal peninsula

Local authorities along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) are starting to plan for deliveries of a new energy source. The

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Communities in northern Canada struggling with high fuel prices

17 December 2018 17 h 20 min Sidney Cohen, CBC News 0 Comments Aklavik, energy, fuel, isolated communities, NWT

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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Greenland joins push to ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic

18 September 2018 16 h 23 min — 21 September 2018 15 h 38 min Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments fuel, heavy fuel oil, indigenous, International Maritime Organization, shipping, Water pollution

Environmental and northern Indigenous communities are welcoming the decision by Greenland to push for a ban on the use of

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Jet fuel shortage disrupts flights in isolated region of Northern Canada

1 August 2018 15 h 27 min Kaila Jefferd-Moore, CBC News 0 Comments airports, flight, fuel, isolated communities, Norman Wells, North-Wright Airways, Northwest Territories, NWT, transport

North-Wright Airways Ltd. has had to cancel flights and reschedule others due to a fuel shortage. The airline’s jet fuel

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Longread – The quest to turn Norway’s Arctic coast into Northern Europe’s wind power hub

13 July 2018 15 h 27 min — 13 July 2018 15 h 31 min Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Barents Sea, Berlevag, Davvi, energy, Finland, Finnmark, fuel, hydrogen, Infrastructure, Kjøllefjord, Raggovidda, Rastegaisa, reindeer, reindeer herding, Renewables, Sami, ST1, Varanger Kraft, wind power

The big winds that come in from the Barents Sea carry flush green power and profits. But developers are held

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Finnish chemistry professor develops “revolutionary” biofuel

22 May 2018 16 h 57 min — 23 May 2018 12 h 24 min Yle News 1 Comment biofuel, environment, fuel, Jyri-Pekka Mikkola, pollution, Renewables, Sweden, Turku, Umea University

A professor at Turku’s Åbo Akademi and Sweden’s Umeå University says he has managed to develop a fuel based entirely

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Efforts to ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic gather steam

10 October 2017 15 h 39 min — 11 October 2017 9 h 54 min Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Clean Arctic Alliance, fuel

The international campaign to end the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) by ships plying the waters of the increasingly

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Renewables help keep energy costs low in Finland: experts

25 July 2016 13 h 20 min Yle News 0 Comments electricity, fees, fuel, hydropower, nordic, Sweden, wind power

Some households’ electric rates have risen incrementally this summer, but overall prices remain low compared to long-term averages. Experts attribute

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Sweden wants lower emissions for new icebreakers

8 January 2016 13 h 41 min Radio Sweden 0 Comments energy, environment, fuel, oceans, pollution, shipping

Sweden’s five state-owned icebreakers are nearing retirement, and so the Swedish Maritime Administration has started work to develop designs for

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Barges deliver energy savings to rural Alaska

7 May 2013 11 h 23 min Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments AVEC, fuel, North

An electric cooperative looking to combat high energy prices in rural Alaska villages has reduced the costs of transporting fuel