Arctic Infrastructure Development News Today

Canada's pivotal role in Arctic sovereignty amid resource race: balancing development and Indigenous engagement for sustainable future.

The Trump administration’s Arctic Refuge oil lease auction was a total bust Photo by Shelley Wales/iStock On the afternoon of Wednesday, January 6—as many Americans were transfixed by the violent insurrectionists laying siege to the US Capitol—the Department of the Interior was undertaking what some conservationists have likened to another kind of plunder: the first-ever oil and gas lease sale in one of North America’s most iconic wilderness landscapes.  For more than 40 years, enviro...