By Shelagh Grant, The Globe and Mail, June 30, 2010
Troubled Arctic waters
Canada needs to take immediate action to retain control over the North. Of all the polar countries, Canada is the most vulnerable to a potential loss of de facto control over its Arctic waters because of its lack of appropriate ships, port facilities and infrastructure to enforce the existing regulations. Read more
NUNATSIAQ online, June 28, 2010
Canada’s incomplete, Nunavut premier tells ICC
“Many people are surprised when they learn that Nunavut does not have a single port which connects its 25 communities”
NUNATSIAQ online, June 28, 2010
Canadian Inuit leader urges focus on children, youth
The Inuit Circumpolar Council should use its 2010 general assembly to mark “an new era in social change for Inuit,” especially the health and education of Inuit children, Mary Simon, the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said June 28.
CBC news, June 28, 2010
Inuit circumpolar summit begins in Greenland
SIKUnews, June 30, 2010
Survey shows little shipping interest in the NW Passage
"Companies are really, really not interested in Arctic routes"— Frederic Lasserre of Quebec's Laval University
SIKUnews, June 30, 2010
All knowledge is knowledge
"I think we should stop to distinguish between traditional knowledge and general knowledge. Knowledge is knowledge - whoever has it"— researcher Minik Rosing, ICC, Nuuk
SIKUnews, June 29, 2010
Inuit lash out at European Union official
No Arctic Council for the EU, ICC delegates say,
SIKUnews, June 28, 2010
Nuuk: ICC starts June 28
The Inuit Circumpolar Council starts its general assembly today in Nuuk, Greenland.
BarentsObserver, June 29, 2010
Floating NPP to be set afloat
The world’s first floating nuclear power plant will be set afloat on Wednesday. The plant will be operational in the Russian Arctic by the end of 2012.
BarentsObserver, June 29, 2010
Operations centre for BarentsWatch to Tromsø
The operations centre for the public information portal for northern sea areas will be located in Tromsø, while the parallel closed monitoring system for the sea traffic activities in the Norwegian and Barents Sea will be in Norway’s north easternmost town of Vardø.
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