Via Nunatsiaq Online:

…A proposed coal exploration project on Ellesmere Island threatens an
internationally-important collection of rare fossil sites, a group of
fossil scientists said last week.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology asked its members to lobby
the the Nunavut Impact Review Board about a coal exploration project at
several sites on Ellesmere Island.

A firm called Weststar Resources Corp. is proposing to search for
coal near an area on Ellesemere called Strathcona Fiord, where
scientists have already found ancient fossil records bearing crucial
information about climate change and early life on earth….