Radio Canada discusses a Report highlights dramatic increase in fuel consumption in Arctic shipping.
Fuel consumption by ships plying Arctic waters grew by 82 per cent in recent years, according to a new report by the Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group.
The report looked at fuel consumption by marine traffic in Arctic waters as defined by the Polar Code, which includes all of North American and Russian Arctic above 60 degrees north, but excludes Iceland and large chunks of the Norwegian and Barents seas in the European Arctic.
The report shows that between 2016-2019 most ships in the Arctic used distillate marine
fuel oil.