Posted Aug 24, 2012, 1:44 AM
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Location: Otisburgh
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Originally Posted by Airboy
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Harper giveth with one hand, and taketh with the other.
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Eureka station forced to close
Harper's funding announcement for the new centre Thursday comes soon after another research facility had to close its doors because of a lack of funding. The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Nunavut, was Canada's northernmost research laboratory.
The station, on Ellesmere Island, had been tracking ozone depletion, air quality and climate change in the High Arctic since 2005. Its research was used to detect and analyze the largest hole in the ozone over the Arctic ever detected last year.
The Canadian Network for Detection of Atmospheric Change, an informal network of university researchers that ran the station, wasn't able to secure the $1.5-million annual funding needed to operate it year-round so operations are are winding down.
Three-quarters of its funding came from the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences and the International Polar Year program, but Harper's government stopped funding those programs and the money dried up. The scientists applied for other government grants but weren't successful.
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ttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/08/23/pol-harper-thursday-arctic-research.html
ol' skinflint steve strikes again.
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