The Arctic is Warming and Turning Red

The Arctic is Warming and Turning Red: Implications for Canada and Russia in an Evolving Polar Region Page 7 by Ron R. Wallace January 2019 Title: Impliactions for Canada and Russia in an Evolving Polar Region becoming one of the most ambitious challenges for the west in the twenty-first century.” Felshtinsky and Pribylovsky (2008)7 chronicled Putin’s astonishing rise to power, a development that [...] The Arctic is Warming and Turning Red: Implications for Canada and Russia in an Evolving Polar Region Page 12 by Ron R. Wallace January 2019 Title: Impliactions for Canada and Russia in an Evolving Polar Region diminish the economic decision-making of devolved northern governments in the face of the ideological forces shaping the climate change agenda. [...] The Department of the Interior subsequently announced plans to offer offshore leases for Arctic oil and gas exploration with access to previously inaccessible acreages and overturned the indefinite drilling bans in much of the Arctic Ocean announced during the final days of the Obama administration. [...] The Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (now the Canadian Global Affairs Institute) had an early involvement in examining Russian-Canadian interests in the Arctic during the rise of the Putin presidency, including the Yamal development. [...] Wright42 and Dolata43 have chronicled the developing Chinese presence in, and their attentions paid to, the Arctic, with the parallel observation (by Dolata) that fortunately tensions related to the Russian annexation of Crimea appear not to have “substantially affected co-operation in the Arctic Council.” Canadian Arctic Perspectives While the importance of a viable and capable icebreaking fleet