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…the first principle of Arctic sovereignty is: Use it or lose it
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Resolute Bay, August, 2007

Sergeant Kevin MacAulay/Canwest News Service
Background
CBC archives: Creation of Nunavut
On April 1, 1999, the new territory of Nunavut was born. It meant the Inuit gained self-rule and control over their own institutions.; Canadian Arctic Sovereignty prepared by […]

BP Spill Seeps Into Norway’s Arctic Drilling Debate
(Planet Ark/Reuters) Norway’s decades-old political consensus on offshore drilling is under attack in the wake of the BP oil spill, just as it covets new riches in the Arctic.
The powerful oil industry says it needs to tap resources off the Arctic archipelagoes of Lofoten and Vesteraalen and in […]

Natural Resources Defense Council: Transition to Green
Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Question of the Day: What do the oil catastrophe and the Wall Street collapse have in common?
In both cases, a powerful, politically protected industry invented something that could not easily be repaired when it broke….
The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES)
John Stewart on the […]

It’s a big year for Canada on the world stage:
Mr. Harper’s keynote speech at Davos, The Vancouver Olympics, Presidency (and host) of the G7, [Muskoka] G8 Summit and Toronto G20, host of the NAFTA “tres amigos” … And in keeping with the role, the Canadian government responded swiftly, efficiently and compassionately to the January 12 […]

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Solar-Powered Plane Flies for 26 Hours
The flight was the longest and highest by a piloted solar-powered craft, reaching an altitude of just over 28,000 feet above sea level at an average speed of 23 knots, or about 26 miles per hour. The plane, Solar Impulse, landed where it had taken off 26 hours […]

Pembina Institute; Arctic & Antarctic
U.S. lawmaker wants halt to TransCanada pipeline
House Energy and Commerce committee chairman Henry Waxman urged the State Department to block TransCanada’s planned Keystone XL pipeline.
“This pipeline is a multi-billion-dollar investment to expand our reliance on the dirtiest source of transportation fuel currently available,” Mr. Waxman said in a letter to […]

As we approach the second decade of the twenty-first century, the changes, or reluctance to change, on the part of governments and business, becomes more evident, not always to the benefit of the majority of citizens.  A cynic’s point of view might be that we have been invaded by local native Martians.
The Russian spies
Espionage may […]

Svalbard Diary: The unending light
The trip to Oslo is the first leg of a journey to the Svalbard archipelago, a set of islands north of Norway which boast the most northerly settlement in the eastern hemisphere: Ny Alesund. On the western shore of the island of Spitsbergen, this place is devoted more or less entirely […]

Chatham House Briefing Paper - Cleo Paskal: How climate change is pushing the boundaries of security and foreign policy ; More of Cleo’s publications ; Global Warring website;  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Climate Change and Security ; The Regional Impacts of Climate Change ; Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Cleo Paskal’s Global Warring […]

Background on UN Convention of Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
Real Climate - Climate science from climate scientists Arctic & Antarctic

Photograph: Louise Murray/Science Photo Library
Global warming accelerated by Arctic ice loss
recent reports by climate scientists state that global warming may be getting more critical than usual. It is known globally by everyone that the temperature […]