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Article: Villagers of `Tuk' brave climate's front line ; Residents build wind turbines
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2009
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TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories - Caught between rising seas
and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of
Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic
coastline. They're building windmills.
That's wind-power turbines, to be exact - a token first try at
"getting rid of this fossil fuel we're using," said Mayor Merven
Gruben.
It's a token of irony, too: People little to blame, but feeling
it most, are doing more to stop global warming than many of "you
people in the south," as Gruben calls the rest of us who fill the
skies with greenhouse gases.
They're feeling climate change not only in this lonely corner of
northwest Canada, but also in a wide ...