VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press, February 12, 2009
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will modernize its icebreaker fleet and station
more researchers in the Arctic as part of its push to stake its claim
to the vast resources of the disputed polar region, a presidential
envoy said Thursday.
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A Canadian iron mine company seeks to build a 143-kilometre private railway on Baffin Island
Oliver Moore, Globe & Mail, September 4, 2008
It will be
the world's most northerly railway, a private line snaking across the
permafrost and rock of Baffin Island at a projected cost of $10-million
per kilometre.
The ambitious project is part of
a plan to tap iron-ore deposits 900 kilometres northwest of Iqaluit.
The plan is subject to regulatory approval and securing financing, but
preliminary drilling is already under way, say officials of Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.,which is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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