Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool (PEMT) – High Arctic

Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool (PEMT) – High Arctic is an open dataset from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada with 28 files (PDF, CSV, ESRI REST, WMS, FGDB/GDB); catalogue record updated 2025-03-26. On CanQuery you can open 8 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

The High Arctic dataset comes from the Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool (PEMT). The online tool was decommissioned in 2019 and the data was transferred to Open Data in order to preserve it. The PEMT was originally developed in 2009 to help guide development in the Canadian Arctic by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). The online tool mapped the sensitivities of a variety of Arctic features, ranging from whales to traditional harvesting, across the Arctic. The tool was intended to aid government, oil and gas companies, Aboriginal groups, resource managers and public stakeholders in better understanding the geographic distribution of areas which are sensitive for environmental and socio-economic reasons. The study area is located in the High Arctic Archipelago and contains both marine and terrestrial components. The boundaries of the study area are based on the NOGB leasing grids applied in the High Arctic, under which exploration, significant discovery and production licenses may be issued. The Sverdrup Basin (and Lancaster Sound) has the highest known oil and gas potential of the sedimentary basins of the Arctic Islands (Nunavut Planning Commission 2000) and it…

Publisher

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Resources

28

Catalogue metadata updated

2025-03-26