Petroleum and Environmental Management Tool (PEMT) – Eastern Arctic

The Eastern 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 east of Baffin Island, Nunavut and encompasses marine habitat in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. The boundaries of the study area are based on NOGB leasing grids applied in the Eastern Arctic, under which exploration and production licenses may be issued. Although portions of the study area hold high oil and gas potential and several small oil fields and substantial reserves of gas have been found since the 1960s in the north Baffin region, exploration for oil and gas has been limited to seismic operations and geological field work.

DISCLAIMER: Please refer to the PEMT Disclaimer document or the Resource Constraints - Use Limitation in the Additional Information section below.

Note: This is one of the 3 (three) datasets included in the PEMT application which includes the Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta and High Arctic datasets.

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Info additionnelle

Champ Valeur
Dernière modification janvier 16, 2026, 20:55 (TU)
Créé le janvier 16, 2026, 20:55 (TU)
contains_pii oui
criticality_level Élevé
data_formats CSV; ESRI REST; FGDB/GDB; KML; PDF; SHP; WFS; WMS
fair_openness Level 2 - Machine-readable
geographic_scope Canada
sensitivity_level Faible
source_inventaire Inventaire_W
source_url https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/4485b86b-f2e2-4f68-af96-fe2be1601c8c
subject economics_and_industry, form_descriptors, nature_and_environment, science_and_technology
update_frequency not_planned
year_most_recent 2025-03-07 19:50:23.362000
year_start 2019-03-27 15:40:05.942000