Feature Interview with Heather Exner-PirotEye on the Arctic: What Arctic headlines stood out for you this year? Heather Exner-Pirot: For me, the big thing is the Arctic Council handover. Then there was the question of how they would resume the work of the Arctic Council. We’re also seeing very little prospects for mining development in the Canadian Arctic. We’ve made it so expensive, so difficult and so time consuming to do mining in Northern Canada, that investors aren’t interested.