‘Poverty porn,’ Obama & Inuit health: Arctic week in review
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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energy
No new nuclear power programmes in Sweden
The plans to start new nuclear programmes in Sweden seem to have come to a halt as the roughly 50
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‘Arctic oil is incommensurate with 2ºC target:’ WWF
TROMSØ: Norway’s decision to offer more Barents Sea drillings would be incommensurate with efforts to limit global warming to 2ºC,
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Russia still open for cooperation in the Arctic
TROMSØ: “In the Arctic there are no problems that cannot be solved on the basis of mutual understanding and constructive
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Keystone XL: Bad for Alaska Crude?
The fight over the Keystone XL Pipeline is likely to heat up in Congress this week. Senate Bill 1 would
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Russia wants Total out of Arctic project
The Kharyaga oil project should be taken over by a Russian company, the country’s Ministry of Energy argues. Total has failed
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Norway offers 34 Arctic blocks along Russian border
Oil companies will get licenses at unprecedented latitudes and along the border to Russia. More than half a year after
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Blog: #SavetheArctic… from Greenpeace
I take a deep and annoyed breathe every time I see a Greenpeace #SavetheArctic tweet, video, or article. Not because
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Will Barents oil investments be financial disaster?
TROMSØ: To drill or not to drill, that’s the Arctic Frontiers question of the year. Investor Jens-Ulltveit-Moe warns Troms and
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Russia, Finland, oil – Arctic week in Review
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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New Russian oil fields along Barents ice edge
Gazprom Neft gets a 83,000 square kilometer oil license area in the northern part of the Barents Sea. As oil
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Solar and wind power yield cheapest energy say Finnish experts
Scientists at the eastern Lappeenranta University have calculated that China would become even more profitable if it were to make
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Gazprom Neft meets production level at Prirazlomnoye oil field
Russia’s only offshore oil-producing field in the Arctic, the Prirazlomnoye, reaches the 300,000 ton production limit. With the production figure, Gazprom
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Oil prices expected to stay low through 2016
The news remains bleak for a state hooked on oil production and price, with the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasting an average price of $58
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Russia’s former prime minister suggests pause in Arctic oil & gas projects
“Arctic offshore oil production is only profitable at an oil price of 100-120 dollars per barrel” says Russia’s former prime
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