Arctic Canada: over 140 businesses left stranded by shutdown of major trucking companies
More than 140 businesses have been left in the lurch by the shutdown of two Tlicho-owned trucking companies. For the
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Mining boost in Russian central Arctic to feed electric vehicle market
Russia’s Nornickel says it can supply enough battery packs to reduce global CO2 emissions by 50-100 million tonnes over the
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Shipping figures rising on Russia’s Northern Sea Route
Goods volumes on the Russian Arctic route reaches 26 million tons. Russia’s development of the Arctic shipping route proceeds ahead
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Northwestern Canada: Yukon gov pressed for details on expropriations for highway upgrades
The Yukon Party is pressing the government for details on any planned expropriation of property to make way for Alaska
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Design of Alaska Highway upgrades in Whitehorse, Northern Canada displayed
Whitehorse, northwestern Canada residents saw Tuesday evening the nearly finished design of upgrades to a section of the Alaska Highway
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Second shipment of fish via Russia’s Northern Sea Route cancelled
Sailing fish from the Far East via the Northern Sea Route to St. Petersburg on board the nuclear-powered container vessel
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Government to attempt another ice bridge at Dawson City, northwestern Canada after failing last two winters
The Yukon government, in northwestern Canada, is going to give it another shot. Plans are being made to try again
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Fertilizer shipment presents opportunities for Russia’s Northern Sea Route
The Arctic route opens new opportunities for our deliveries to Asia, says company Acron. It is the first ever shipment
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Putin wants new rail link between Arctic coast and Indian Ocean
The construction of a railway line to Sabetta is what is needed, the Russian president argues. It was Asia and
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US sanctions against Chinese shipping company could hurt Russia’s LNG exports
Washington’s blacklisting of COSCO includes potentially devastating consequences for Russian LNG exports from the Arctic. The sanctions announced on the
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Will Canada’s next government pick up the tab for a major northern highway project?
For six decades, it’s been the biggest project on the territory’s to-do list: a 1,500-kilometre highway from the N.W.T’s southern
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Long read – The Arctic railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?
The Arctic railway project from Rovaniemi, Finland to Kirkenes, Norway caused heated debate in Europe until it was tanked by
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Canadian gov to fund runway upgrades for Inuvik, Northwest Territories airport
Two months after announcing $22 million to protect permafrost underneath Inuvik’s airport, the federal government has returned to the Northwest
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Northerners welcome changes to Canada’s Nutrition North program, but wish for more
People across the North are pleased to see changes to Nutrition North, the federal program that aims to make food
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Construction of Tlicho all-season road in Northern Canada begins
Elected officials stabbed at muddy ground with clean shovels at the official groundbreaking on the Tlicho all-season road in Whatı̀,
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