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Tromsø wants to host 2014 Olympics

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

The city of Tromsø in Arctic Norway is making a bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2014.

Tromsø officials called the bid "a unique project with enormous significance for Norway." Local politicians said the bid is realistic because the city already has promises of financial support from government agencies and athletic groups.

Lying above the Arctic Circle, Tromsø is in total darkness until mid-January. But by the time the Olympics would roll around in February, the sun would be above the horizon for several hours a day.

May 16, 2003

Computer games linked to violence in Icelandic teens

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

New research from the University of Iceland shows that there is a link between how much Icelandic teenagers play violent computer games and physical and mental violence.

One out of 10 teenagers who plays video games experiences physical abuse at the hands of a parent or guardian, and one out of five witnesses violence at home – rates higher than those found among teenagers who don't play video games.

May 16, 2003

Alaskan villages ban plastic bags

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

The Alaskan villages of Emmonak, Galena and Kotlik have banned plastic bags, joining 30 other communities in Alaska that have turned to less environmentally damaging ways of carrying groceries.

"It's working out good here," said Peter Captain Sr., chief of the tribal council in Galena, where the city banned stores from using plastic bags in 1998.

Ireland and Taiwan tax bags to curtail their use. South Africa banned them completely, as did Bangladesh after floods were linked to plastic bags clogging up drains.

The Alaskan city of Bethel is now considering banning the bags. Clair Grifka, Bethel's public works director, told the Anchorage Daily News that he looked out his office window and saw an enormous flock of snow geese. Then he realized it was 800 to 1,000 white plastic bags.

If adopted, the Bethel ban could cost violators up to $500.

Alaska's department of environmental conservation promotes the recycling of plastic bags by turning them into crocheted crafts, backpacks, handbags, bath mats and baskets.

May 16, 2003

Greenland and Denmark agree to move ahead on Thule

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

NUUK, GREENLAND - Officials from Denmark and Greenland signed a landmark agreement-in-principle this past Wednesday that will set the stage for an upgrading of Greenland's Thule air base into a missile defence site.

The deal, signed in the tiny community of Itilleq, the home town of Greenland Prime Minister Hans Enoksen, offers Greenland a much stronger voice in foreign affairs than the Home Rule government previously had.

Greater control for Greenland over foreign affairs and security matters was one of five major points covered in the agreement-in-principle signed by Enoksen and Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller.

The promise of more direct influence for Greenland and more equality between Greenland and Denmark means that when developments affecting Greenland require international negotiations, cabinet ministers from Greenland will sit with Danish government officials at the negotiating table.

Greenland wanted this guarantee before starting any discussions with the U.S. on upgrading Thule.

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