Oil prices dive, Arctic projects could be at risk
North Sea crude trading prices are now the lowest since June 2012. On Monday morning the price had reached USD
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Disappointing result in Rosneft’s first Norwegian well
The drilling of the Pingvin well in the Barents Sea did not prove suffient hydrocarbons for further field development. The
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Kara Sea oil discovered a week before sanctions hit
Exxon and Rosneft have found oil at the first well drilled, but the unanswered question is how to exploit it
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Finland: Nuclear reactor project still possible despite cabinet rejection
Finland’s prime minister Alexander Stubb has denied that the government’s rejection of an application for a nuclear licence by energy
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No Norwegian services to Russian Arctic offshore oil
Norway’s foreign minister Børge Brende says Norway joins the restrictive measures against Russia introduced by EU earlier in September. The
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Finland names new environment minister
Finland’s new Environment Minister is to be Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, who until her selection had served as Prime Minister Alexander Stubb’s
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Secret nuclear cargo transported along coast of Norway
Despite a cold political climate, the U.S. and Russia cooperated on a secret September voyage with highly-enriched uranium from Poland
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Finland’s president dismisses claims of Russian ‘appeasement’
Finland’s president Sauli Niinistö has refuted claims by the leader of the Green League, Ville Niinistö, that the government’s approval
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Alaska: LNG project advancement raises question of pipeline coordinator’s role
With the federal environmental review process recently launched for a massive Alaska liquefied natural gas project, the federal gas pipeline
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Finland’s biggest waste-to-energy plant opens in Vantaa
The biggest power plant turning refuse into electricity has officially been taken into use on Wednesday in Vantaa. The new
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Russia: $600 million Kara Sea drilling could be shut down
The United States new round of sanctions on Russia could force Exxon to alter its ongoing drilling in the Kara
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Nuclear power project debates expose political divide in Finland
The Social Democratic Party’s parliamentary group proposed on Tuesday that supplementary applications from both the Fennovoima and TVO nuclear projects
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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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Finland’s economic minister says Fennovoima reactor can go ahead, Greens may quit cabinet
Finland’s Minister of Economic Affairs Jan Vapaavuori has announced that he will not recommend that the government and Parliament approve
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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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