Controversial copper mine in Arctic Norway gets green light
Indigenous Sami interests and environmental groups will appeal the Norwegian Government’s decision on Thursday to grant permission for controversial mine
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Northern Canadian territory tables mining act requiring benefit agreements with Indigenous govs
The Northwest Territories government, in Canada’s central Arctic, says more accountability on negotiations between industry and Indigenous governments is a
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Diamond believed to be first-ever found in Arctic Finland
What is thought to be the first diamond discovered in Lapland has been confirmed as such. German geologist Kasper von
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Northern Canada: Small deficit projected in Northwest Territories budget
Money in the latest budget that’s allocated to go to five shelters in the Northwest Territories will go a long
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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories criticize new mine benefits agreement
An agreement the Northwest Territories government (Canadian central Arctic) signed at a mining conference in Vancouver, southwest Canada last week
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Indigenous gov concerned about new proposed mine agreement in Northern Canada
The Tlicho (First Nations) government boycotted the signing of a socio-economic agreement between the Northwest Territories and a company proposing
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Mining company boosts spending to lobby U.S. government for contested Alaska project
Pebble Limited Partnership spent more than $1 million last year to lobby the U.S. government on its plan to dig
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Northern Canada: Northwest Territories gov, mining company sign agreement on benefits of proposed mine
A proposed mine in the Northwest Territories (Canada’s central Arctic) is closer to reality after a socio-economic agreement was signed
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Dozens of northern leaders attending mining conference on Canada’s West Coast
Dozens of leaders from across the North are in Vancouver, British Columbia this week for one of the country’s largest
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Blog – Snapshots from up and down the Arctic in 2018
In 2018, conferences, workshops, and meetings brought me to seven of the eight countries with territory north of the Arctic
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Ribbon cut on college mine training centre in Canada’s Northwest Territories
Federal and territorial officials cut the ribbon on a $10.4 million mine training facility at Aurora College on Monday. The
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Canada: chamber of mines says mining industry in Northwest Territories ‘will die’ without investment
The City of Yellowknife, in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), was given a grim update on the state of the territory’s
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Blog – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic
Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three
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Alaska drilling, China, and the Arctic Council handover to Iceland : Northern news to watch for in 2019
All year long, Eye on the Arctic brings you news, and newsmakers, from around the North. But as 2019 gets
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Russian miners dig deeper into vast Kola nickel reserve
The resources of the Zhdanovskoye field remain huge in Northwestern Russia, but mining company Kola MMC needs to go increasingly
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