Oil Companies Sign Agreement in Canada.

• Position: Oil & Gas - Brief Article

A blue-ribbon group of oil companies signed an agreement with Native leaders in Canada's far north that would allow construction of a C$3 billion ($2 billion) pipeline to ship natural gas from the Arctic to markets across Canada and the U.S.

The agreement, reached after months of intensive talks, which had stalled in the summer over land claims issues, will give Natives up to one-third ownership in the 2,200-km (1,375-mile)...