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Laval gets $41.7 million for Arctic project

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

Last week it became official – a group of 40 researchers from 13 Canadian universities, and 11 international experts, will be able to draw on $41.7 million in financing from various sources for their Canadian Arctic Shield Exchange Study.

The study, to be coordinated by Université Laval in Quebec City, is looking at the interplay of climate change, ocean currents and ice on the Canadian Arctic Ocean.

In 2003-04, the refitted Canadian research icebreaker, Sir John Franklin, will head out to study ice-melt and its impact on the Mackenzie ice shelf environment.

The boat will anchor off of Inuvik while scientists on board build a camp two kilometres from the ship and take daily measurements of the ice depth.

Over the past 40 years, the Arctic ice pack has thinned and shrunk significantly. Some scientists have predicted that the northern ice cover on the Northwest Passage will disappear by 2050, changing the environment for people and animals, and opening a much shorter transportation route to Asia.

May 2 , 2003

Iceland boasts world's first hydrogen fuel station

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

Iceland opened the world's first hydrogen fuel station last week to provide clean energy instead of polluting fossil fuels for three specially outfitted buses.

The station, run by the Royal Dutch Shell oil company, will power three buses in Reykjavik under a US$7-million project that is partly funded by the European Union.

Iceland would like to find a way for other vehicles, such as cars and boats, to also use hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen fuel emits only water as waste, but it's expensive and challenging to store and distribute.

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