Newsletter This Way Up!
Winter is here, enveloping the world in quiet cotton. (Photo from Bodø: Trine Jonassen)
Dear Reader. We proudly present the first Arctic Council podcast, “This Way Up”, a positive innovation from and about the Arctic. If there is one thing we need right now, it is stories from those who live here at a time when cooperation and dialogue are increasingly difficult. Here is the latest news from the high north.
Who will tell the story of us who live in the north? asks commentator Arne O. Holm.
Newspaper editorial offices in the north are being cut, and when the proximity to the sources, to the history, to the people, to the terrain is lost, journalism loses its validity, writes Holm.
Demanding Russia questions
"It is demanding," says Norwegian Minister of Fisheries, Marianne Sivertsen Næss (Labor), when I meet her in Bodø.
And with sea ice closing the Northern Sea Route often poorly insured shadow fleet vessels are again using the ice-free waters of the Barents Sea.
Industry in the north
It is good news that the northern Norwegian company Leonhard Nilsen and Sons is looking to acquire the cornerstone company Skaland Graphite. (Norwegian)
And Norwegian municipalities and counties with aquaculture activities will be allocated over NOK 1.4 billion through the Aquaculture Fund. (Norwegian)
Cooperation and defense
Cooperation in the North is going in waves.
Recently, the leadership of Norway, Finland and Sweden's northern brigades and home guard forces met in Northern Norway to forge even closer ties. (Norwegian)
An extra piece of good news is the collaboration we have entered with the Arctic Council to publish the new podcast, This Way Up. Head of Communications, Anja Salo, says the podcast will showcase that the Arctic people have many of the answers to the region's issues.
On the other hand, there will be less interaction with Finland going forward.
At the turn of the year, Finland will withdraw from the Barents Council, and the search for a new cooperation framework has so far not yielded any results.
Read this and more at High North News.
This week, research journalist Birgitte Annie Hansen is in Greenland to cover the Greenland Science Week Conference. You can already look forward to reading more about this next week.
Arctic greetings from editor-in-chief Trine Jonassen