[Ost-news] "Still no interest in exploring high Arctic": official

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Still no interest in exploring high Arctic: official  
Last Updated: Friday, January 4, 2008 | 9:36 AM CT  
CBC News

Companies have yet to take up the federal government's invitation to explore the high Arctic for oil and gas, even though that invitation has been extended for the sixth year in a row.

Richard Casey, an official with the federal Indian and Northern Affairs Department, told CBC News that there has been no interest from any company to explore for oil and gas around Axel Heiberg Island, located west of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, or in any surrounding areas.

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