A group of senators is urging the federal government to invest in infrastructure funding to help Arctic residents adapt to a landscape that is being rapidly altered by climate change.
A special Senate committee has called for increased infrastructure spending, defence in the Arctic as retreating ice brings increased foreign interest in northern resources and navigation.Mr. Patterson said many problems in the North are related to infrastructure, such as melting permafrost’s impact on housing, roads and airport runways.
Ms. Bovey said that melting permafrost is affecting communities all over the Arctic, adding that southern building codes don’t work in the North. She said Indigenous knowledge needs to be used in combination with scientific research in the Arctic to properly address these issues.
globepolitics How sad thousands of Canadian acres might soon be put to the plough a month earlier & could feed extra millions abroad & it might be the same in Russia. Global warming is a bad thing. Fools look at the geographical landmass. Warmth is beneficial in North & deep South
globepolitics Please update your pictures, Canada Coast Guard doesn’t use any more those helicopters