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Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)
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As House leadership calls for end to Point Thomson, Alaska litigation, attorneys request extension

APRN
Posted: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 19:28 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 22:45
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Attorneys challenging the Point Thomson settlement have requested more time to prepare a new brief on the case. APRN’s Alexandra

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Norway has its full rights to engage in its part of the Barents Sea, Foreign Minister Børge Brende says. (Atle Staalesen/Barents Observer)
Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Deteriorating relations with Russia shouldn’t affect Barents drilling: Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 14:44 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 22:45
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Speaking to journalists in Kirkenes, the Norwegian border town, Brende stresses that plans for hydrocarbon exploration in the area should proceed

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Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)
Business Business (USA) General USA 

Arctic standards won’t be ready for Shell’s return

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 19:44 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 22:45
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After Shell’s troubled 2012 drilling season in the far north, the Interior Department began working on Arctic-specific standards for offshore

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(Pamela Dunlap-Shohl / Alaska Dispatch News)
Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Chukchi Sea shoal newly closed to oil leasing is well known as biological hot spot

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 18:28
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Hanna Shoal, a region of shallow water in the remote Chukchi Sea that President Barack Obama last week put off limits to

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Vagit Alekperov ,CEO, of the Russian oil and gas company Lukoil speaking at a press conference in London in 2013. (Alastair Grant/AP)
Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Lukoil eyes new Arctic licenses

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 16:44
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“We will support you”, Vladimir Putin tells Lukoil leader Vagit Alekperov as the oil company bids for long-wanted access to

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The tugs Aiviq and Nanuq tow the mobile drilling unit Kulluk 80 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska on Dec. 29, 2012. (Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis / United States Coast Guard / AP)
Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Obama, oil drilling and injustice in Canada’s North: Arctic Week in Review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 21:32 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:59
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this

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Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)
Business Business (USA) General USA 

Conoco dials back investment in Arctic Alaska

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 18:54 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 19:46
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While Shell  announced yesterday it’s investing in its Arctic prospects, ConocoPhillips Alaska says it’s dialing back a bit. Conoco issued a

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Åsa Romson, Sweden's environment minister, pictured above in September 2014. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty)
Business Business (Sweden) General Sweden 

Sweden’s environment minister wants nuclear reactors closed; company says no plans to do so

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 15:04 — Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 20:11
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The Green Party environment minister wants Sweden to close two nuclear power plant reactors over the next four years, the

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The West Alpha rig. (Rosneft)
Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Rosneft won’t resume drilling in Kara Sea in 2015

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 14:41 — Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 20:11
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Russian oil company Rosneft will probably not be able to resume drilling in the Kara Sea this year after ExxonMobil

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The tugs Aiviq and Nanuq tow the mobile drilling unit Kulluk 80 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska on Dec. 29, 2012. (Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis / United States Coast Guard / AP)
Business Business (USA) General Special Features USA 

Shell says it plans to drill in Alaska’s Arctic in 2015

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 19:21 — Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 20:11
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Shell says it plans to drill in offshore waters in Alaska’s Arctic in 2015, even as it retrenches on capital

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Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski listens during a session of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill January 8, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Alaska senator swings at Obama Arctic wildness plan but misses

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 16:24 — Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 20:11
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Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday failed to land her first counterpunch at the Obama administration’s new Arctic conservation policies.

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The old town in Greenland's captial city of Nuuk. (Eilís Quinn/Eye on the Arctic)
Blog Business Business (Denmark/Greenland) Denmark/Greenland General 

Blog: Greenland – barrels of oil and bottles of water

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 14:42 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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In the past week, there have been two interesting stories about Greenland in the news. The first is in The Economist,entitled, “Greenland

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Business Business (Finland) Finland General 

Finland: Does Nordea’s divesting of coal shares signal shift in Nordic market?

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 15:58 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 17:46
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One of the Nordic region’s biggest banks is pulling out of investments in coal. Though the sums involved are tiny

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A subdivision on the outskirts of Kaktovik looks into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's 1002 coastal plain. Sept. 10, 2012. (Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) General Special Features USA 

Arctic Ocean may be next as Alaska officials seethe over ANWR move

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 15:46 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 20:38
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Emotions continued to rise on Monday over President Barack Obama’s initiative to increase protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with

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(iStock)
Environment Environment (USA) General Special Features USA 

ARCTREX tests Arctic oil spill tracking techniques

Josh Edge, APRN - Anchorage
Posted: Monday, January 26, 2015 at 14:38 — Last Updated: Monday, January 26, 2015 at 20:24
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Offshore oil and gas exploration has become increasingly prominent over the past several years. But, questions remain about how effective

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