Oil and gas exploration in northern Canada

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Davidson, A. T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1961
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Canada; British Columbia; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400051482; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400051482

About 80 million acres on the mainland of the Northwest Territories and Yukon, and over 40 million acres on the Arctic islands, are under oil and gas exploration permit. Exploration permits were issued in the Arctic islands for the first time in June 1960, following promulgation in April of new Cana...