Forty Years of Northern Non-Renewable Natural Resource Development

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Nassichuk, W.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Coal; Economic geology; History; Hydrocarbons; Mineral resources; Mining; Transportation; Weather stations; Canadian Beaufort Sea; Canadian Arctic Islands; Mackenzie Delta; N.W.T; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cornwallis; Cornwallis Island; Echo Bay; Faro; Keno Hill; Little Cornwallis Island; Mer de Beaufort; Mount Skukum; Nanisivik; Yellowknife; archipel arctique; Arctique*; Baffin; Beaufort Sea; Terre de Baffin
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64838

Northern Canada is endowed with abundant non-renewable natural resources, and exploration and development of those resources have increased steadily since World War II. Particularly during the past 20 years new regulatory controls have been emplaced in response to elevated concerns about the possibl...