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Arctic Canada: over 140 businesses left stranded by shutdown of major trucking companies

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 6, 2019 at 14:12 — Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2019 at 14:19
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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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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Mining boost in Russian central Arctic to feed electric vehicle market

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 12:03
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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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BUSINESS Business Countries General Russia 

Shipping figures rising on Russia’s Northern Sea Route

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, November 15, 2019 at 10:38
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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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Canada Countries General Politics POLITICS 

Northwestern Canada: Yukon gov pressed for details on expropriations for highway upgrades

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 12:02
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The Yukon Party is pressing the government for details on any planned expropriation of property to make way for Alaska

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Canada Countries General Politics POLITICS 

Design of Alaska Highway upgrades in Whitehorse, Northern Canada displayed

Steve Silva, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 11:52
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Whitehorse, northwestern Canada residents saw Tuesday evening the nearly finished design of upgrades to a section of the Alaska Highway

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Second shipment of fish via Russia’s Northern Sea Route cancelled

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, November 1, 2019 at 09:38 — Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2019 at 10:37
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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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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Politics POLITICS 

Government to attempt another ice bridge at Dawson City, northwestern Canada after failing last two winters

Paul Tukker, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 10:11 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 11:25
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The Yukon government, in northwestern Canada, is going to give it another shot. Plans are being made to try again

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Business Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 General POLITICS Russia 

Fertilizer shipment presents opportunities for Russia’s Northern Sea Route

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 11:44 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 11:47
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The Arctic route opens new opportunities for our deliveries to Asia, says company Acron. It is the first ever shipment

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured Featured • Zone 1 General Russia 

Putin wants new rail link between Arctic coast and Indian Ocean

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, October 7, 2019 at 14:21 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 12:06
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The construction of a railway line to Sabetta is what is needed, the Russian president argues. It was Asia and

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Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 General POLITICS Politics Russia 

US sanctions against Chinese shipping company could hurt Russia’s LNG exports

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 10:30 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 16:32
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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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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 General Politics POLITICS 

Will Canada’s next government pick up the tab for a major northern highway project?

John Last, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 11:18
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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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Countries Cyber Cyber-1 Featured Featured • Zone 3 Finland General POLITICS Politics 

Long read – The Arctic railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 14:52 — Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 13:56
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The Arctic railway project from Rovaniemi, Finland to Kirkenes, Norway caused heated debate in Europe until it was tanked by

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Canada Countries General Politics POLITICS 

Canadian gov to fund runway upgrades for Inuvik, Northwest Territories airport

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 14:51
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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

Angela Hill, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 11:58
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People across the North are pleased to see changes to Nutrition North, the federal program that aims to make food

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Canada Countries Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Politics POLITICS 

Construction of Tlicho all-season road in Northern Canada begins

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 26, 2019 at 14:07 — Last Updated: Monday, August 26, 2019 at 14:15
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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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