"A bid by [Canada's] federal government to impose sweeping confidentiality rules on an Arctic science project has run into serious resistance in the United States."

"'I’m not signing it,' said Andreas Muenchow, of the University of Delaware, who has taken issue with the wording that Canada’s Fisheries and Oceans department has proposed for the Canada-U.S. project.

It’s an affront to academic freedom and a 'potential muzzle,' said Muenchow, who has been collaborating with DFO scientists on the project in the Eastern Arctic since 2003.

DFO’s proposed confidentiality provisions say all technology and 'other information' related to the Arctic project 'shall be deemed to be confidential and neither party may release any such information to others in any way whatsoever without the prior written authorization of the other party.'"

Margaret Munro reports for Postmedia News February 13, 2013. [2]