Photo: Montreal talks about “the Arctic in transition”

Yvette Vaguet, far right, a geographer from the University of Rouen in France, talks about the impacts and future of oil exploration in the Russian Arctic Oct. 3 at a Montreal conference called “Arctic in Transition.” Vaguet spoke about the challenges facing communities where oil extraction operations have appeared in western Siberia — particularly for their
indigenous residents. Vaguet and other researchers, lawyers and historians are gathered at the Université du Québec à Montréal today and tomorrow to discuss economic, political and security issues across the Arctic. (PHOTO BY SARAH ROGERS)