Wrong. Read the article.
Furthermore, it is unresolved why the incident was repressed for so many years:
This correspondent has been unable to find any contemporaneous articles published about the incident. It has all the ingredients for a great human interest story, a giant predator preying on humans; the struggle for survival; a hostile, dark, cold environment, heroic actions by the victim’s colleagues, man and machine against the predator in a scene similar to that in the movie “Aliens”. If any readers find a contemporaneous account, please let us know of it.The Panarctic Oil company had been fined $150,000 by the Canadian government, for dumping oil residue and garbage, which had no environmental effect, according to the court, in January of 1983. The corporation was still on probation in December of 1983, so it likely worked with the government to repress news of the polar bear attack. Bear researchers knew of the incident in 1988.
One motive may be the incident shows a sow polar bear with a year old cub in an unprovoked, predatory attack.
That is contrary to the narrative of the peaceful polar bear.