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1/ Nuiqsut is the only town in Alaska's prolific North Slope oil region, which is poised for another drilling boom.
The community has long been concerned about industry air pollution. There is reason to be anxious.
@shankman reports from the #Arctic: insideclimatenews.org/news/01082018/…
The community has long been concerned about industry air pollution. There is reason to be anxious.
@shankman reports from the #Arctic: insideclimatenews.org/news/01082018/…
2/ "I was really stunned when I was up there in July [2017] to hear the fears that are so pervasive in the community that it even impacts the teenagers," said Barbara Trost of @alaskaDEC.
3/ More than three-quarters of Nuiqsut residents still live a traditional subsistence life, off the fish they catch, the whales they harvest and the caribou they hunt.
And they've found themselves on the frontlines of a modern crisis.
And they've found themselves on the frontlines of a modern crisis.
