Point Lay News

Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration announced the start of an exchange program Thursday night between Mashantucket teenagers and their peers from Point Lay, Alaska, the small Arctic village where aquarium researcher Tracy Romano has studied beluga whales for many of the past 15 summers.

Link: Up Here magazine, Canada Like hunters in the Alaska village of Point Lay , those in the Canadian village of Kangiqsujuaq in northern Quebec this summer took their first bowhead whale in modern times, after getting the OK from the Canadian government.

SolveClimate.com: Where the natural gas from the Alaska natural gas pipeline will end up is a murky question tied up in a 30-year-old treaty, expansion of Canadian tar sands operations, and trends in natural gas supplies both in the United States and in Canada.

The Arctic coast village of Point Lay, long denied a subsistence whaling quota and once all but abandoned, is poised to hold its first Nalukataq blanket toss feast in 72 years to celebrate the landing of a spring bowhead.