Roundup: The Arctic This Week - News for March 26 - March 31, 2012   

(Tom Fries/The Arctic Institute Center for Circumpolar Security Studies, 2 April 2012) -- Only have a few minutes to read? Here’s the most interesting and informative writing from this week: 1. Michael Byers on Canada’s icebreakers, in the Globe and Mail. 2. A good article on the delay in Shtokman, and on Gazprom more generally, from BusinessWeek. 3. Good blog post from Tom Barton on road construction in the Yamalo-Nenets region. 4. The history of Ellesmere Island’s name, from Nunatsiaq Online. I would also like to add my own thanks and praise, for whatever it’s worth, to that of the Quebec Newspaper Association for the staff of Nunatsiaq Online, who provide seriously high-quality, information-rich writing on a wealth of different issues in Canada’s Arctic. ...

Posted 2 April 2012; 3:50:53 PM.   Permalink

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