Inuit in two countries are angry over Russian plans to drop a rocket stage potentially carrying highly toxic fuel into some of the most productive waters in the Arctic. An Inuit group says that the area where Russia wants to drop the space debris is their front yard and Russia has no right to treat it as a no-man’s-land. She says that part of the ocean is their front yard and Russia has no right to treat it as a no-man’s-land. Okalik Eegeesiak of the Inuit Circumpolar Commission says Inuit from a dozen communities in Nunavut and Greenland regularly hunt and travel on the sea where the space debris is slated to splash down. In a statement, Russia has downplayed environmental risks from the rocket.

Source: thestar June 03, 2016 20:54 UTC