Inuit in Canada and Greenland want to jointly control a unique area of the Arctic Ocean to protect crucial hunting grounds and restore a crucial travel corridor.
Although the area is crucial to Inuit for hunting and other traditional activities, the federal government has approved underwater seismic blasting by a consortium of energy companies.
In the middle of a hot spot for marine mammals, why does Environment Minister Catherine McKenna want to climb up a cliff to an "office" 300m above the Arctic seas?
On Saturday, a stage of a Russian satellite-launching rocket is expected to fall into Baffin Bay between Ellesmere Island and Greenland within seas over which Canada has economic control.
"No company will continue to be successful if their integrity and their reputation is questioned," said the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell.
Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the key to dealing with climate change in the Arctic is to have "real conversations" with the Inuit peoples who live there.