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How a new Inuit-run non-profit could help foster sustainable development of the Northwest Passage

The waterway’s Indigenous inhabitants need a bigger say in its future.

By Nick Eidemiller July 25, 2019
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There are problems on the horizon for the Canadian Arctic and, to be more specific, the Northwest Passage. This fabled, once unpassable, waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is now becoming navigable a few months out of the year due to a sizeable reduction in sea ice. This development has meant that traffic in the region nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015 and is exacerbating two problems.

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