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All-season road project linking Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada gets first major funding

14 August 201914 August 2019 CBC News 1 Comment mining, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, roads, transport

The Canadian and N.W.T. governments announced $40 million in funding Wednesday toward pre-construction work on an all-season road that would

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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories expect ‘hectic’ sitting ahead of territorial election

12 August 2019 Sidney Cohen, CBC News 0 Comments carbon tax, education, elections, legislation, mining, Northwest Territories, NWT

Northwest Territories MLAs, in Northern Canada, have a jam-packed agenda as they head into their last scheduled sitting before the

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Moscow supports Vostok Coal’s expansion into protected Arctic tundra

7 August 20197 August 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, Dikson, energy, mining, national parks, Northern Sea Route, shipping, Taymyr peninsula, VostokCoal

Company Vostok Coal has been been fined several hundred million rubles for illegal mining in Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula, but still

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Greenland issues new exploration, prospecting licences to Anglo American

1 August 20191 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Avannaata municipality, copper, Erik Jensen, mining, Ministry of Mineral Resources and Labour, nickel, platinum group metals, politics, Upernavik

Greenland’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Labour has granted British multinational Anglo American a series of licences in western Greenland.

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Environmental Protection Agency decision now has contested Alaska mine developers cheering

31 July 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Environmental Protection Agency, mining, Pebble Mine

Pebble Limited Partnership, the company trying to build a mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska, is

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Canada announces $2M for research into carbon neutral mining in the Northwest Territories

24 July 201924 July 2019 CBC News 0 Comments carbon, carbon neutral, diamond, Gahcho Kue, mine, mining, nickel, resources

The Canadian government is investing millions in a Northwest Territories-based research project that has the potential to make some mining

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Citizens’ initiative to reform mining law heads to Finnish Parliament

15 July 201917 July 2019 Yle News 0 Comments environment, Finland, mine, mining

A citizen’s initiative to reform Finland’s mining law has received 50,000 signatures, meaning that the proposal now qualifies for consideration

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Environmental Protection Agency criticism of projected Pebble Mine ‘substantial’, says Alaska’s senator Murkowski

12 July 201915 July 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Murkowski, mining, Pebble Mine

The Environmental Protection Agency issued harsh assessments of the proposed Pebble Mine last week, and they’ve made an impression on

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Mining boom to drive economic growth in northern territories beyond rest of Canada, report says

12 July 2019 Ryan Patrick Jones, CBC News 0 Comments economy, employment, jobs, mining, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, Yukon

Economic growth in the territories will outpace the rest of Canada over the next two years, driven by the strength

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Business is good for Russian nickel giant Nornickel

9 July 20199 July 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Kola Peninsula, mining, Norilsk Nickel, Nornickel

Nornickel makes big money and has tripled payouts to its shareholders over the last three years. The annual General Meeting

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Alaska mine project may be riskier than thought

3 July 20193 July 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Environmental Protection Agency, mining, Pebble Mine

The Environmental Protection Agency has weighed in once again on the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, and it has mine

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Gendered impacts of resource development should be studied, says inquiry into violence against Indigenous women in Canada

2 July 20195 July 2019 Avery Zingel, CBC News 0 Comments indigenous, Indigenous women, mining, MMIWG, Northwest Territories, NWT, women

Before a resource development project goes ahead, it should be assessed for risks it poses to Indigenous women, girls and

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Royal Canadian Mint issues Nunavut gold collector coin to commemorate 20th anniversary of Arctic territory

27 June 201927 June 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments art, currency, Inuit, Meadowbank, mining

The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a collector coin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the eastern Arctic territory of

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U.S. gov reconsiders restrictions on controversial Alaska mine project

27 June 201927 June 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Environmental Protection Agency, mining, Pebble Mine

The Environmental Protection Agency announced good news Wednesday for the company backing the proposed Pebble Mine: The EPA is officially

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Alaska’s Senator Murkowski not taking a stand (yet) on contested Pebble Mine

21 June 201921 June 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, mining, Pebble Mine

Opponents of the Pebble Mine, in Alaska, are doing all they can to get Sen. Lisa Murkowski on their side.

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