BP plans Alaska layoffs
BP plans to cut its Alaska workforce by 17 percent by early next year. The oil company announced on Monday
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Bill aims to create Arctic port on Bering Sea coast
A U.S. House subcommittee considered a bill Wednesday aimed at creating a deepwater dock at Point Spencer, a narrow curlicue
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Arctic satellite image of the week | Bárðarbunga: of lava lakes and reservoirs
Iceland’s temperamental geography has gone haywire again with Bárðarbunga, the latest volcano to erupt under the Vatnajökull ice cap. It’s
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Gasline partners take steps toward permitting, marketing of project in Alaska
The partnership to build a natural gas megaproject has initiated the environmental review process. BP, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Transcanada and the
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Feature Interview: Arctic Economic Council raises environmental concerns
Canada’s Arctic Council chairmanship has garnered mixed reviews. The Arctic Economic Council (AEC), a Canadian initiative that would have northern
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Finnish nuclear utility seeks shorter extension on Olkiluoto 4 reactor
Finnish nuclear utility Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) has revised its request for an extension to its preliminary permit to build a
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Ice-Blog: Arctic Economic Council – and the environment?
I would like to share my thoughts with you on the founding meeting of the Arctic Economic Council, taking place
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Shell’s new Chukchi plan: Two rigs drilling wells at the same time
Two years after its ill-fated drilling season in Arctic waters off Alaska, Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday submitted a revised
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Sweden’s potato farmers face big losses
Potato farmers in Sweden’s Värmland region risk losing big parts of their crops because of intense rain. Farmer Gunnar Carlsson
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First ‘luxury’ cruise ship will sail Arctic passage
A U.S. cruise company plans to send a luxury cruise ship through the Northwest Passage in August 2016. It would
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TVO: Rethink could kill Finland’s Olkiluoto 4 nuclear project
The TVO utility wants an extension of its preliminary permit for a fourth unit at the ill-fated Olkiluoto plant –
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Blog: The new Arctic real estate boom – Tromso, Norway
In 2010, I went to Nuuk, Greenland for the first time. And I was surprised that as soon as people
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Blog: The Russian Far East, the Arctic and Foreign Trade
On Monday, I wrote about the diamond mine located in Mirny, a city in the Sakha Republic in the Russian
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Alaska oil tax referendum ignites a neighborly sign war
On top of being the most expensive ballot measure in state history, next week’s referendum on oil taxes may also
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Sweden’s finance minister says cut to 2015 growth forecast likely
Sweden’s Finance Minister Anders Borg painted a gloomier picture of the Swedish economy on Monday, saying the nation’s growth forecast
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