Photo: Kunnaq and Konek meet the press in Durban

Curtis Kuunaq (right) and Jordan Konek, dressed in light-weight atigiit, speak to a reporter from the South African Broadcasting Corp.’s morning show at the United Nations climate change summit, still underway in Durban, South Africa. The two members of the Nanisiniq Arviat history project say they have sympathy for the six members of the Canadian youth delegation who were booted off the conference site Dec. 7 after protesting at a news conference featuring federal Environment Minister Peter Kent. “If we were treated like that and had tried to talk to him and he had refused to meet with us or to listen to anything we had to say, I would do something like that,” Kuunaq said. Read more about what’s happening in Durban on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY FRANK TESTER)