Much-delayed Arctic pipeline environmental study expected this week, years late

Even at noon, Inuvik’s weak December sun never seems to light the Arctic community brighter than twilight

“Everyone’s hoping for a positive announcement and away we go,” says Kurt Wainman, who’s got a yard full of heavy equipment sitting idle just waiting for some nice, juicy oilpatch work.

Sometime this week, a little of Wainman’s limbo will lift.

More than three years after its original deadline, the long-awaited Joint Review Panel will finally table its report on the pipeline’s environmental and social effects.

Canadian Press