Global powers eye melting Arctic for its bounty

This past summer, APTN’s Montreal videographer Tom Fennario was onboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza as it made its way around the island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean.

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This past summer, APTN’s Montreal videographer Tom Fennario was onboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza as it made its way around the island of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean.

The environmental organization went on the trip to warn the world about the effects of the melting ice-cap.

But there’s something else going on up there. Countries like Canada, Russia, Norway and the United States believe a melting ice cap makes the North a wide open resource extraction opportunity.

On the third and final instalment of Canary in a Coal Mine, Fennario examines Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic.

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