Company behind contested Alaska mine project pays $1M to hire Washington lobbyists
The U.S. House will hold a hearing on the Pebble Mine, in Southwest Alaska, on Wednesday. Members of Congress should be
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Moody’s downgrades rating on $550M bond owed by Northern Canada mines owner
The murky future for two diamond mines in the Northwest Territories has led a major credit ratings agency to doubt
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Mining companies to pay higher deposits for environmental damage in Finland
Finland’s government is committed to increasing the guarantee fees paid by mining companies to offset the environmental damages mine operations
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Blog – Greenland isn’t for sale, but it is for lease
Even if global norms allowed America to buy Greenland, the neat redrawing of national borders and flag-raising that would follow
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Large gold mine in Yukon, northwestern Canada set for first pour
The Eagle Gold mine property is an industrial behemoth of heavy machines, buildings and workers hidden away in a obscure
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Murmansk region welcomes its first EV fast-charger during air pollution spike
Festivity in the mining town of Zapolyarny, northwest Russia as Nornickel-sponsored fast charger for electric vehicles opened on Thursday. At
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MLA worried hydro expansion in Northern Canada is ‘subsidy’ for mining project
A Yellowknife, Northwest Territories MLA is questioning whether a proposed transmission line connecting Whatì, N.W.T., to the Snare Forks hydroelectric
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Alaska governor sends letter encouraging potential Pebble mine investor
Officially, Gov. Mike Dunleavy is neutral on the Pebble mine, in southcentral Alaska. But a letter he wrote to a
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Can the environment withstand Arctic Russia’s coal mining boom?
Climate crisis and environmental concern notwithstanding, Russia says it aims for a big dig of the carbon-rich rock. Much of
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All-season road project linking Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada gets first major funding
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
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
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
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
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
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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