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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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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General News 

Greenland joins push to ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 16:23 — Last Updated: Friday, September 21, 2018 at 15:38
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Environmental and northern Indigenous communities are welcoming the decision by Greenland to push for a ban on the use of

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General News 

Jet fuel shortage disrupts flights in isolated region of Northern Canada

Kaila Jefferd-Moore, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 15:27
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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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General News Norway Society Society (Norway) 

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

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 13, 2018 at 15:27 — Last Updated: Friday, July 13, 2018 at 15:31
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The big winds that come in from the Barents Sea carry flush green power and profits. But developers are held

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Environment (Finland) Finland General News Science 

Finnish chemistry professor develops “revolutionary” biofuel

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 16:57 — Last Updated: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 12:24
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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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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Efforts to ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic gather steam

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 15:39 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 09:54
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The international campaign to end the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) by ships plying the waters of the increasingly

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Business (Finland) Environment Finland General 

Renewables help keep energy costs low in Finland: experts

Yle News
Posted: Monday, July 25, 2016 at 13:20
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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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