Arctic shipping critical issue for new ministers

Governments must support a safe Arctic shipping fleet and support industry to transition to cleaner, safer fuels so increased costs are not passed onto communities. Furthermore, none of our communities has the capacity to deal with a large search and rescue operation or pollution response.

Shipping as envisioned by most is a large tanker vessel loaded with everything from produce to computers, to vehicles. For Inuit, shipping and, broadly, marine transportation is critical infrastructure. Inuit are a maritime people. We rely on free movement, first and foremost, to eat, since so much of our diet is derived from hunting. Photograph courtesy of NASA

Opinion

BY MONICA ELL-KANAYUK

November 1, 2021

Today, Nov. 1, 2021, is the first full day of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland. There is a strong delegation of Inuit leaders there, supported by Inuit elders and youth. Our decades old message about climate change is no longer contested. Indeed, the most recent IPCC Report h...

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