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US Gov preparing for oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, June 8, 2018 at 09:35 — Last Updated: Friday, June 8, 2018 at 11:38
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The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday announced it is undertaking a series of construction projects to prepare for oil exploration

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Blog – The automation of Arctic oil: Good for companies, hard for communities

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, February 19, 2018 at 10:18
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Big Oil is often regarded as an industry of yesteryear, unwilling and slow to change with the times. In some

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Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Statoil starts controversial drilling in Arctic waters

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 17:02
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With operations more than 400 kilometers north of mainland Norway, Greenpeace says it is the most controversial and aggressive drilling

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Mystery surrounds only oil well ever drilled in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 16:04 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 12:32
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With oil development advocates again emboldened by the prospects of cracking open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a big secret that

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Russia ordered to pay €5.4 million for seizing Greenpeace vessel

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 14:04
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An international tribunal formed under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea has ruled that Russia will have

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Blog: In the Arctic Ocean, an Alaska Native corporation seeks to fill void left by Shell

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 19:34
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When Shell aborted its $7 billion Arctic drilling efforts in the Beaufort Sea in September 2015, environmentalists breathed a sigh

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Record oil volumes shipped out of Russian Arctic, says company

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 14:49
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Twenty million tons of crude oil has been shipped out of the Russian Arctic in the last six months, shipping

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The Trans-Alaska Pipeline near the Dalton Highway.(Barry Williams/Getty Images)
Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

What environmentalists won by losing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline battle

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, July 7, 2017 at 17:52 — Last Updated: Friday, July 7, 2017 at 17:55
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In the late 1960s, the oil companies knew they needed a pipeline to get Prudhoe Bay oil to market, and they

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Trump administration launches plan to boost offshore oil development in Arctic and elsewhere

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, June 30, 2017 at 14:21 — Last Updated: Friday, June 30, 2017 at 14:25
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Less than two years after Royal Dutch Shell abandoned its offshore Arctic oil exploration program and triggered an exodus of other

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Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Statoil’s new Arctic project needs $30 a barrel oil prices to be profitable

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 15:15
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The Johan Castberg will come on stream in year 2022 and prepare the way for the development of more northern

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Hilcorp makes oil industry’s first move in decades into federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, June 23, 2017 at 14:36
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For the first time in decades, an oil company has put significant money into leases in federal waters of Southcentral

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Conservation groups girding for battle over National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska

Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, June 12, 2017 at 15:48
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Oil industry boosters and Alaska politicians are joining President Donald Trump’s administration to push for more development in an area

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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Alaska lawmakers set to end cash subsidies for oil companies

Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 18:54 — Last Updated: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 19:03
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JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate approved a House proposal Monday to repeal a cash-subsidy program for oil companies. But a

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Oil experts eye “significant resources” along Norway’s maritime border to Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 14:14
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The area, parts of which are located in ice-covered waters, could hold more than 2 billion standard cubic meters of

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Business Business (USA) General 

Caelus claims offshore Arctic oil discovery that could rank among Alaska’s biggest ever

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 18:12
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Caelus Energy Alaska said Tuesday it has made a “world-class” oil discovery that, if estimates prove true, could be one

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