12-05-2019 18:01 via ctvnews.ca

'No negotiations:' Inuit group wants Arctic areas saved from development

IQALUIT, Nunavut -- An Inuit land-claim group is asking the federal government to permanently protect large sections of the Eastern Arctic from any industrial development. The request is part of a huge effort to map out how and where oil, gas and mining should go ahead on land and water around Baffin Island and how they can co-exist with traditional Inuit life. It comes in the final year of a five-year moratorium on Arctic offshore energy development, which is to be reconsidered in 2020. "There'
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