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From an "ABC News" article: Video games; the international debate over whaling in the Southern Ocean has entered a new frontier.
Ship Simulator Extremes is the name of a new PC game, created by Greenpeace and a Netherlands-based video game developer, allows players to take control of famous Greenpeace ships and re-enact real-life campaigns on the high seas.
Confrontations, which took place in real life Greenpeace campaigns off the southern coast of Australia require players to save whales from Japanese whaling vessels.
Greenpeace International spokesman Daniel Kessler says players are required to hassle the Japanese whaling fleet using "non-violent" actions. "The simulator... reinforces our commitment to peaceful direct action," he said. "If you ram a whaler, for instance, your game is over."
Mr Kessler says Greenpeace became involved in the project so it could promote its environmental message to a new audience.
Jeffrey Brand, the head of Bond University's school of communication and media studies, says the game may be one of the first to feature a political message from a non-government organisation. He said "Many games are now being used for advertising and commercial messages... but you don't see very many blatantly political or cause-related games." he said. "The medium is increasingly a viable channel through which to carry different kinds of messages, whether they be political, commercial or indeed simple entertainment messages," he aded.
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ABC News, 1st September 2010
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by Raven
last update: Sep 02, 2010
From a "CRI English" article: A contract was signed by the Argentine Defense Ministry to purchase two multipurpose Mi-17 Russian helicopters, which will be used for logistic and rescue operations in the Antarctic bases.
The agreement was signed by Argentine and Russian officials, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The Mi-17 helicopters have capacity to transport 26 passengers and 5 tons of external load, have floaters for emergency water-landing, cargo cranes for upload and download in the deck of vessels and supplementary tanks for long-range operations.
The purchase of these helicopters was done as a "government to government" contract and it includes the training of the crew and mechanics when the helicopters will arrive in Argentina in September 2011.
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CRI English, 2nd September 2010
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by Raven
last update: Sep 01, 2010
From various articles: The Stena Don rig, owned by Scotland-based Cairn Energy PLC, were forced to stop drilling when four Greenpeace activists climbed up the rig and fastened themselves to it.
The 1,650-feet (500-meter) security perimeter around the Stena Don rig off western Greenland was breached, triggering an automatic shutdown of the rig's operations according to police spokesman Morten Nielsen, who spoke to The Associated Press. He also added that the activists are still on the rig and will be arrested.
"When someone breaks the law, and it has happened here, the person or persons will be prosecuted," Nielsen said by telephone from Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
Greenland Premier Kuupik Kleist called Greenpeace's stunt an "openly illegal act" and a "gross violation" of safety rules. "It is really worrying that Greenpeace uses all means to break the safety rules made to protect human lives and the environment in its quest for media coverage," Kleist said in a statement.
Cairn said in a statement that safety was its top priority.
"The actions taken by Greenpeace are primarily a matter for the Greenlandic authorities and Cairn will work with these authorities as they seek to deal with the matter in the most appropriate way," the company said.
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Associated Press / Google, 31st August 2010
Upstream Online, 31st August 2010
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last update: Sep 01, 2010
From an "MSNBC" article: The NASA satellite ICESAT, ended its successful mission earlier this week after spending seven years studying Earth's Polar Regions.
It burned up in the atmosphere on its way back to earth and some debris from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation satellite (ICESat), fell into the Barents Sea north of Norway and Russia at approximately 5 a.m. EDT Monday. This information came from the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA officials said that the craft's lasting legacy will be its impact on the understanding of ice sheet and sea ice dynamics as the ICESat mission has led to scientific advances in measuring changes in the mass of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, polar sea ice thickness, vegetation-canopy heights, and the heights of clouds and aerosols.
Jay Zwally, ICESat's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said "ICESat has been a tremendous scientific success. It has provided detailed information on how the Earth's polar ice masses are changing with climate warming, as needed for government policy decisions."
"Thanks to ICESat we now also know that the Antarctic ice sheet is not losing as much ice as some other studies have shown," Zwally said.
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MSNBC.com, 31st August 2010
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Franklin's final resting place not found
The failure to find his final resting place deepens of the most enduring mysteries of the Arctic.
John Franklin set sail from England with 134 men aboard two ships, the Terror and Erebus in May 1845, to search for the fabled Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific Ocean, and most of them were never heard from again.
A six-man Canadian government survey team, supported by the Canadian Coast Guard vessel the Sir Wilfrid Laurier and its near 50-man crew, last week surveyed hundreds of square miles of frigid sea floor hoping to succeed where some 100 other expeditions failed, discovering the fate of the ships and a crew whose demise has been attributed to factors from lead poisoning to cannibalism.
Ryan Harris, a government archeologist who is leading this summer's search said "for Canadians, the disappearance is "a Victorian gothic horror story that played out across the Arctic."
When Franklin and his crew disappeared, some 36 expeditions, financed mostly through Franklin's wife and the British Navy, sought the lost crew but to no avail. The bodies of some sailors, some in formal graves that identified the crew members by name and some sailors' possessions and other relics were discovered. When in 1859, a Royal Navy search party found a message under a cairn on King William Island that detailed how the crew had abandoned their ships after being trapped in ice for a year and that Franklin had died in 1847 and the remaining crew would head to Back's River, hundreds of miles to the south, the British gave up the search. But not the Canadians, as in the 1960s, it has sent its army to look and amateurs have put fortunes and lives on the line after catching what they call the "Franklin bug."
The mystery remains.
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Wall Street Journal, 31st August 2010
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Sea Shepherd Activist Pete Bethune returns home
Bethune was arrested and taken back to Japan after confronting with the Japanese whaling vessel called Shonan Maru #2. Now four months later and after spending half a million dollars in legal fees, Pete Bethune was greeted by his wife, Sharyn, and their two daughters, Danielle, 15, and Alycia, 13, in New Zealand.
Initially, Bethune was sentenced for 2 years in Japanese prison for the involvement in direct clashes with Japanese whalers, but the sentence was suspended after four months.
In his press conference, Pete Bethune clearly stated that he doesn't feel any regret at all for what he did in the Antarctic waters as he attempted to invoke the realization in the government that whaling should be stopped.
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All Voices, 28th August 2010
Right Celebrity, 27th August 2010
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Cruise ship stuck in the Arctic Ocean
The MV Clipper Adventurer was en route from Port Epworth to Kugluktuk, Nunavut, when it grounded on an uncharted rock in the northwest Arctic and although the crew tried to dislodge the vessel during high tide on Saturday, it was unsuccessful.
Luckily, no passengers or crew were injured and although the 90-metre vessel was sitting on a slight list, it is stable according to the Mississauga, Ontario-based cruise company said.
According to the company's website, the Clipper Adventure is "among the very few vessels in the world specifically constructed for expedition voyages to the far reaches of this remote land," the site says. "Her ice-strengthened hull permits her to glide easily and safely through ice-strewn waters that are not accessible to conventional cruise vessels."
Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen took passengers to Kugluktuk, a small town on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, where accommodations had been arranged by the cruise ship company. They were then expected to fly to the Canadian city of Edmonton.
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Toronto Sun, 29th August 2010
CNN, 30th August 2010
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Sanctuary for Beluga whales in Beaufort Sea
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that they are establishing theTarium Niryutait Marine Protected Area, a 1,800 square kilometre space in the mouth of the Mackenzie River Delta and the Beaufort Sea
Every summer, the world's largest seasonal population of Beluga whales gather in the sea to socialize, feed and raise their calves.
According to Harper it's important to protect the "Arctic treasures" as well as the harvesting traditions of Inuvialuit groups in Aklavik, Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk. He said "It balances ecologial and conservation imperatives with the social and economic needs of the people who live in this region. It balances the beluga harvesting traditions of Inuvialuit with the protection of a species which is threatened or endangered in other parts of the world."
This marine protected area will be the first of its kind in the Arctic ocean.
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HQ Yellowknife, 31st August 2010
Vancouver Sun, 27th August 2010
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Canadian PM denounces EU seal product ban
According to Harper, the ban discriminates against Canadian sealers, who are hardworking people of modest means. "This is flagrant discrimination against the Canadian seal industry, against Canadian sealers ... people who are doing animal husbandry, no differently than many other industries," he said after the announcement. Harper called the EU's decision a disgrace, that was not based on rational facts.
The ban was to be implemented Friday but has been suspended because of a European General Court of Justice decision on a challenge launched by a Canadian Inuit group arguing that it threatens their livelihood.
The Canadian government will ask the World Trade Organization this fall to establish a dispute settlement panel that would consider whether the EU ban complies with WTO rules. This comes after Canada already filing a complaint with the WTO arguing the ban, adopted by 27 European countries earlier this year, is a violation of the EU's trade obligations.
The sealing industry on Canada's East Coast has steadily dwindled in recent years amid the global recession, the vocal animal rights protests and the looming European ban. Fewer hunters went out last year because pelt prices bottomed out at $14 compared to more than $100 a skin only a few years ago. A pelt is now valued at around $23-$25.
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Business Week, 19th August 2010
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Norwegian watchdog seeks better spill prevention
The director general of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway, Magne Ognedal, told Reuters in an interview that oil companies aiming to tap the riches of Norway's Arctic waters will have to invest in additional safety measures. "We asked the OLF (Norway's oil industry lobby) to look into the possibility of developing equipment that could handle subsea blowouts regardless of water depths. They will need to look for better technologies to help detect a leak on subsea installations. We are looking for improvements in that area."
Norway is is Europe's second-largest energy exporter and already has some of the toughest safety regulations in the world.
Norway is asking oil companies to have an additional safety device on a blow-out preventer, a measure not required in the United States but which many say would have prevented BP's Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to Ognedal, an international meeting of oil safety watchdogs would be held in Washington DC on September 8-9, on the initiative of his office, to address the blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Australia.
"There are special safety issues that need to be addressed (in the Arctic)," Ognedal said. "New equipment will need to be made available ... and we will need new designs for installations."
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Reuters, 19th August 2010
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Government apologises for Inuit relocation to High Arctic
John Duncan, the newly appointed Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, says the government is sorry for relocating 19 Inuit families from Northern Quebec in the 1950s. They were moved with three families from Pond Inlet to help the them adapt to the barren landscape of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord, where temperatures were 20 degrees below to what they were used to.
According to INAC, the 19 families were not prepared for their new climate, and were left to live in "flimsy tents with inadequate food and supplies." Duncan said in his speech in Inukjuak, Quebec "The Government of Canada deeply regrets the mistakes and broken promises of this dark chapter of our history and apologizes for the High Arctic relocation having taken place."
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HQYellowknife.com, 19th August 2010
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Polar bears a threat to migratory birds
This causes increased problems, for instance in Canada, this has led to a higher number of Polar bear - human interactions whilst on the island of Svalbard, north of Europe, it has placed another species, the Barnacle geese, in danger.
Barnacle geese on Svalbard spend their summers nesting on the island. The birds are infrequent breeders and even if they do lay eggs, the typically small clutch sizes mean that only a few chicks join the flock each year. Now their low breeding rate is facing a new challenge: Hungry polar bears.
This year, it is known that 10 polar bears were stranded on the island after Arctic ice melted. Hungry and trapped, the marauding bears began feeding on the eggs of the barnacle geese, observers saw one bear eating more than 1,000 eggs.
60 years ago, the goose population on Svalbard had dipped below 300 and after decades of conservation work, the population has climbed above 30,000. However, this most recent threat, however, could jeopardize that seemingly robust number.
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Treehugger, 18th August 2010
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Canada's military Arctic exercise to include U.S.and Denmark
Capt. Tanya Thordarson, the military's deputy commanding officer in Resolute, said that this three-nation exercise is a chance to share knowledge. "Well, some of these other countries also have expertise in doing these types of operations in the North, or they want to learn from us because we have more expertise than them. So, it's kind of a collaboration and a dual learning process, if you will."
According to Jim Hordinski, a chief warrant officer with the United States Navy, Canadians are experts in Arctic operations. "Anything we can learn from them is of great value to us, just to make us better all around. "For us, it's been a huge learning experience in as far as logistics with our movements up here, exercising our cold-weather gear, our cold-weather operating procedures,something we don't do a lot of in Virginia Beach."
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CBC News, 18th August 2010
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National Science Foundation's research vessel ready by 2014
At long last, their dream ship soon will become a reality. Matthew J. Hawkins, program officer for ship acquisition in the National Science Foundation’s division of ocean sciences said “It’s going to be a great tool for science. It is definitely a next generation research vessel, the first of its kind.”
The R/V Sikuliaq, a 254-foot oceanographic research ship, expected to be one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world, likely will be ready for use by 2014, with construction scheduled to begin in October.
The name Sikuliaq, pronounced “see-KOO-lee-auk,” is an Inupiat word that refers to “young ice,” “new ice,” or “thin ice,” and describes ice without snow that is safe to walk on. The new vessel will be able to break ice as thick as three feet, and navigate in seasonal sea ice and open ocean waters near Alaska, including the Chukchi, Beaufort and Bering Seas, as well as the eastern Arctic.
“Changing Arctic climate may well be one of the critical drivers for climate change over the entire planet,” Hawkins said. “All of these scientific missions and activities are of continuing interest and great importance, not only to the U.S., but also to the economic and environmental welfare of the entire globe.”
“Along with the significant ecosystem changes and impact on coastal communities, this change could impact national security and commerce by providing regular trade routes further into regions along the north coast of Alaska,” Hawkins said. “Opening this fragile area to commerce will heighten the importance of scientific research to understand the effects. We need to learn more about the impacts of climate change, and understand the natural processes around us,” he added. “This is just the tool to do that. Having this ship is particularly important for our emphasis on climate research. Being able to have it now, with the current focus on climate change, really was an alignment of the planets.”
The ship is the first funded by the National Science Foundation since the 1980s. The total project will cost $199.5 million. Of that, $148 million comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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US News Science, 17th August 2010
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Petermann Glacier looses huge ice block
This loss from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland was expected as cracks in the glacier were observed last year.
Professor Andreas Muenchow from the University of Delaware commented on the phenomenon “It is the largest Arctic iceberg to calve since 1962."
Scientists observing the event have declared that it is not known yet if the separation of this huge iceberg (which contains huge reserves of fresh water) is due to the global warming and the contribution of Greenland’s decaying ice sheet to the rising of the sea levels are being looked into.
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AFP/Google, 14th August 2010
Hot Spring Net, 12th August 2010
AFP/Google, 12th August 2010
Examiner, 13th August 2010
New Tang Dynasty Television, 18th August 2010
EC Pulse, 10th August 2010
All Voices, 8th August 2010
Providing News, 18th August 2010
Sentenial Source, 16th August 2010
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100-day Arctic expedition for the Academician Fedorov
The expedition will also involve the nuclear-powered icebreaker Yamal and will explore the geological structure of the Laptev and East-Siberian Seas, as well as other water areas, all the way to the geographical North Pole.
Research in the Arctic has been launched to gather evidence that the continental Arctic shelf, specifically the Lomonosov and Mendeleev ridges, is part of Russia. It is believed by scientists that the shelf harbours huge mineral resources.
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The Voice of Russia, 28th July 2010
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US and Canada to delineate outer limits of Arctic continental shelf
The US State Department said that coast guard ships from the US and Canada will map the shape of the disputed area's seafloor and determine sediment thickness as part of a survey from August 7 to September 3. "The mission will help delineate the outer limits of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean for the US and Canada," it said in a statement. It "will also include the collection of data in the disputed area where the US and Canada have not agreed to a maritime boundary. Coastal States have sovereign rights over the natural resources of their continental shelves. Both the US and Canada will be collecting scientific information to satisfy the criteria for delineating the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles as set forth in the Convention on the Law of the Sea," it added.
The 2010 continental shelf survey mission will cover regions over the Canada Basin, the Beaufort Shelf, and the Alpha Mendeleev Ridge.
An US Geological Survey in 2008 said that within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore.
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AFP / Google, 27th July 2010
Anchorage Daily News, 27th July 2010
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19th Century HMS Investigator wreck found
Canada's government says the discovery in Mercy Bay bolsters its claim to sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, which is feared threatened by increased shipping.
The British ship HMS Investigator, captained by Robert McClure, left Britain in 1848, to search for the Franklin expedition, lost with all its crew during a mission to discover the passage. The ship was eventually abandoned on the western side of the Canadian Arctic when it became trapped in pack ice.
Canadian Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice told the BBC by telephone from Mercy Bay "It's an incredible site. You're looking at what people have not seen in 156 years, which is a remarkably intact British sailing vessel. You could make out all the planking on the deck, the details on the hull, all of the detail of the timber," Mr Prentice said. "It's sitting perfectly upright on the floor of the ocean."
The Canadian researchers also found three graves of British sailors who died of scurvy on the 1853 expedition.
Parks Canada, a government agency, will inventory and study the ship and other artefacts but will not remove them. It has been in touch with the British government regarding the sailors' remains.
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BBC News, 28th July 2010
The Hindustan Times, 29th July 2010
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Boats to steer clear of Migaloo
Acting Climate Change and Sustainability Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk renewed the Special Interest Declaration which was needed as the current protection had expired. Now the Queensland state government has issued a stern warning message to boats - steer clear of Migaloo. The great while whale was spotted off Snapper Island, 20km north of Port Douglas, last week.
"The extension means Migaloo and other white whales are now fully protected until the end of the migration season," Ms Palaszczuk said. "That means boats or jet skis have to keep at least 500 metres away to give Migaloo plenty of room to move."
In addition to the restrictions on boats and jet skis, aircraft must not get closer than 2000 feet to white whales.
"The future of whale watching in Queensland, both as a valuable tourism industry and as recreation, depends on the respect we show these animals when we encounter them," Ms Palaszczuk said. "This is about safety for people as well as for the whales, which can weigh more than a fully loaded semi-trailer," she added.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 25th July 2010
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Greenpeace founder Dorothy Stowe dies
The Greenpeace movement was started and founded by Dorothy, her husband, Irving Stowe, and Jim Bohlen.
Back in 1970, in Vancouver, Dorothy and Irvin met Jim Bohlen and Marie Bohlen and then started the protests against the American test nuclear bombs on Amchitka Island, off the coast of Alaska. Their protest group was named ‘Don’t Make a Wave Committee’. Shortly before her death Ms Stowe said “Who knew that four people at a kitchen table could give rise to a movement that has offices in 40 countries? You couldn’t possibly have predicted it.”
Another early Greenpeacer, Rex Weyler, said “She was the real deal. She was the sort of person that actually made things happen.”
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Headliner Watch, 24th July 2010
Montreal Gazette, 24th July 2010
Vancouver Sun, 24th July 2010
IBN Live, 24th July 2010
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Whale lands on yacht near Robben Island
Prior to the incident, Paloma Werner, Cape Town Sailing Academy Administrator and sailing instructor Ralph Mothes had been watching the whale flip its flukes back and forth for about half an hour. They then thought it was diving beneath the boat and but were surprised to see it suddenly breach and come crashing aboard their yacht.
Werner was reported to saying "It reached about 100 to 200 meters from us, then it disappeared under water and reappeared about 10 to 20 meters from the boat, but we didn't think we were on a collision course. My boyfriend told me to go to the other side of the boat," she said, explaining that they thought it would dive under their vessel. All I heard him say was 'Oh sh*&,' and I saw the whale come out of the water and crash against the mast of the boat. I ducked behind the coach house and my boyfriend ducked behind the steering wheel and we saw the mast crashing toward us and the whale slip back into the water."
Werner and Mothes believe the whale escaped without much injury. The yacht fared far worse.
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Examiner, 23rd July 2010 (incl. photos)
CBS News, 22nd July 2010 (incl. video)
Examiner, 24th July 2010 (incl. video)
Examiner, 24th July 2010 (different article / incl. video)
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Macquarie Island pest cull postponed
The Tasmanian and Federal governments, who jointly funded the project, aim to eradicate rabbits and rodents from the sub-Antarctic island, which is about 1,500 kilometres south-east of Tasmania. However, strong winds and low clouds meant Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife staff could not use their helicopters to distribute poisoned baits.
Peter Mooney, the General Manager of the Parks and Wildlife Service, says they were simply unlucky. "We're just going to re-group and look at next winter."
David O'Byrne, Tasmania's Environment Minister, says only about 8 per cent of the baiting program was completed.
"We now need to sit down with the project team to work through what the expected costs will be, in terms of the coming years, in terms of the management. It's not something that we're able to quantify at this stage but I can say that the Tasmanian Government is absolutely committed to ensuring that this project goes ahead. It's absolutely not a waste, what it does is just unfortunately set us back some time."
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ABC News - Australia, 23rd July 2010
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NOAA to update maps through Bering Straits
The Arctic ice recedes and countries are looking forward to faster, safer and more efficient sea routes across the top of the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is responding to a request from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska Maritime Pilots and the commercial shipping industry, sending one of its premier surveying vessels, NOAA Ship Fairweather, to detect navigational dangers in critical Arctic waters that have not been charted for more than 50 years.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said “We have seen a substantial increase in activity in the region and ships are operating with woefully outdated charts. I have introduced legislation that authorizes a significant increase in funding for mapping the Arctic, and I am pleased to see NOAA beginning the process. While this is a good start, we still need more resources to adequately map this region.”
Captain John Lowell, director of NOAA's Office of Coast Survey said “Commercial shippers aren’t the only ones needing assurances of safety in new trade routes. The additional potential for passenger cruises, commercial fishing and other economic activities add to pressures for adequate response to navigational risks.”
Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska said “In Alaska we are seeing the effects of climate change more rapidly than anywhere else in the U.S. As Arctic sea ice recedes, economic activity in the region is going to expand dramatically. Alaskans rely on NOAA to help us make sure that things like oil and gas development and marine transportation are done safely and responsibly. The 21st century mapping technology the Ketchikan-based Fairweather brings to this important charting mission is a great example of what the federal government needs to do as activity in the Arctic grows.”
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 20th July 2010
The Arctic Sounder, 21st July 2010
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Shackleton's whiskey thawed for analysis
Earlier this year, the crate of whisky was recovered, along with four other crates containing whisky and brandy, beneath the floor of a hut built by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition.
The other fourcrates were left in the ice, but the one labeled Mackinlay's whisky was brought to the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island, where officials said it was being thawed in a controlled environment.
Nigel Watson, executive director of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, said the whisky might still be liquid. "When the guys were lifting it, they reported the sound of sloshing and there was a smell of whisky in the freezer, so it is all boding pretty well," he said.
The Antarctic Heritage Trust team that was restoring the explorer's hut found the crates in 2006 and drinks group Whyte & Mackay, the Scottish distillery that now owns the Mackinlay's brand, launched the bid to recover the whisky for samples to test and potentially use to relaunch the defunct Scotch.
Watson said "This was a blend so they are hopeful if there is enough alcohol left and it is in good condition they may be able to analyze and hopefully replicate the liquid so in fact everyone could partake in this. It has been put on ice for 100 years so I don't think it is too unromantic a suggestion. The reality is that it is very limited quantities and our focus is on the conservation and not the drinking."
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NPR / Associated Press, 22nd July 2010
New Zealand Herald, 22nd July 2010
Stuff Co NZ, 21st July 2010
3News NZ, 21st July 2010
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