Today we would like to welcome a member of the AEC Executive Committee, Ms. Lillian Hvatum-Brewster representing ATCO. ATCO is a global provider of energy, energy infrastructure and housing, disaster response and logistical support. With headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, Canada they operate in the Arctic region with partnerships spanning across Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory... Source ..read more

Years of collaboration between the Arctic Economic Council (AEC) and the Korea Arctic Research Consortium (KoARC) has been formalised during the AEC Annual General Meeting that took place in Tromsø on May 10th. “In the Arctic region companies work closely together with researchers and share some of the same infrastructures and exchange data. With global warming happening at four times the global... Source ..read more

Blue eyes, black nose and four paws. This is the typical portrait of a participant in Finnmarksløpet, the longest dog-sled race in Europe. Finnmarksløpet takes place in Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway. Every spring, locals are looking forward to welcoming mushers from all around the world. The race creates regional pride, catalyses tourism in Northern Norway and puts Finnmark in the... Source ..read more

A strong focus on the people of the Arctic is important in Norway’s priorities for its chairship of the Arctic Council, according to the Arctic Economic Council. “It is positive that Norway’s priorities for the coming two years has a strong focus on sustainable economic development and the people of the north. To have thriving communities we need to make sure that there are attractive jobs... Source ..read more

Arctic Sweden is a vast territory, where average temperatures are low, and the electricity is affordable and green. These unique conditions together with power grid and fibre capacity infrastructure, make the region an attractive location for hosting data centres for big international companies. Since 2013 Swedish city of Luleå has been hosting Facebook data centres, making the Swedish Arctic a... Source ..read more

”It all started when Facebook located their first data center outside of the U.S. in Northern Sweden, which kickstarted the green industrial revolution based on access to fossil-free and competitively priced energy in the region. Suddenly the demand for a new workforce was growing. We historically thought it was primarily white-collar, highly educated people we would need, but we now see that we... Source ..read more

The local population is aging and rapidly decreasing. In 2021 on average, one person left the municipality every second day. Kirkenes is a town of 3500 people in Northern Norway. It takes more than two hours to fly south to the capital Oslo, but only 20 minutes to drive by car to the Russian border in the east, and around 40 minutes to drive to Finland in the west. Kirkenes has a diverse... Source ..read more

Arctic Business Network (ABN), a network of Greenlandic and Danish companies operating in the Arctic, has signed up to become a member of the Arctic Economic Council (AEC). This is a part of the efforts from ABN to strengthen their members’ competencies by uniting with a pan-Arctic business organization like the AEC. “We join the AEC to expand our international network and thereby share the latest... Source ..read more

The Arctic region is not only located on the top of the world it is also top of mind in many policymakers these days. In the north we find many of the solutions to our globe’s major challenges . The region has a sustainable blue economy to feed a growing urban population. The Arctic has all kinds of energy sources from oil and gas to geothermal, hydro, wind and solar and now also hydrogen makes... Source ..read more

Today Arctic Economic Council is celebrating its birthday. It is eight years ago since the creation of the AEC in Iqaluit in Canada. Since then, private sector representatives and indigenous groups have been the voice of the people in the region promoting sustainable economic development. Having originally been created to inform the Arctic Council on the views on business in the region the... Source ..read more