Tag: Inuvialuit
One Arctic, One Future, One Spill?
Dan Slavik July 25, 2014
Exploring the shared risk – to people, nature, and wildlife – of an oil spill in the Beaufort Sea
Exploring the risks of oil spills in the Beaufort Sea
David Miller July 25, 2014
With growing interest in Arctic development, WWF has new research modelling how spilled oil might spread in the Beaufort Sea.
Just when I thought I couldn’t go any further North…
Dan Slavik May 21, 2013
In late-April, I boarded a plane with a group of Inuvialuit and Canadian scientists and embarked on a flight from Inuvik, NWT, across the pure wilderness of the Arctic North Slope, to the Barrow, Alaska- the northernmost town on the North American continent.
Beaufort Sea initiative
Sue Herbert January 21, 2011
But I don’t have a head scarf, I said, looking at my taxi driver, who came here via Calgary from the Sudan. It’s fine, he said, no one minds.
Settling into my new role in Inuvik
Sue Herbert December 16, 2010
The Mackenzie River crossing is open - that is, it is frozen hard. I know because today I could find lemongrass, fresh basil and wonderful pears at Arctic Foods. The price of which you do not want to know. Trucks are on the Dempster Highway again.