Canada-Norway Subsea Cable to Improve Inuit Connectivity

A subsea network that would stretch from northern Canada to Norway could open a path for significantly better internet connectivity in Inuit communities, and also open the potential for data centres being built in Labrador to export their processing power, according to CBC Canada. 

The proposed network, which would connect Nunavut and Nunatsiavut, the Inuit-owned land in northern Labrador, is being developed by CanArtic Inuit Networks and Bulk Infrastructure Inc.

"Now we have a project to interconnect the Nordic region with the Atlantic Canada region," Peder Nærbø, Chairman of Bulk Infrastructure, said in an interview.

The proposed network is divided into two projects. CanArtic's SednaLink cable will run from Sheshatshiu, in central Labrador, through Nunatsiavut to Iqaluit in Nunavut, spanning a total of 1,904 kilometres. Phase 2 of the SednaLink cable would be routed to the High Arctic, spanning another 2,960 km. The southern part of this cable would connect an area near Happy Valley-Goose Bay with a terminal point 4,200 kilometres away in Norway.