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Ice-Blog – Former UN climate chief speaks out against Arctic drilling

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 13:45 — Last Updated: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 09:50
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One good thing about people no longer being in office is they are freer to come out with their own

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Oil field data worth millions of dollars is about to be made public by Alaska

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 15:29 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 18:30
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The state is planning to release a trove of seismic data from oil exploration surveys as early as mid-September that cost

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Alaska rejects ExxonMobil plan to expand oil production in Arctic

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, September 1, 2017 at 14:15
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On Tuesday, the Walker administration denied a proposal by ExxonMobil Corp. to expand oil production at the Point Thomson field,

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‘We will come back’, Statoil says after disappointing results in Barents Sea

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 18:10 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 19:20
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Failing to find oil at the Korpfjell prospect doesn’t make Norway’s oil major give up. We will come back next

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Norwegian leaders believe in Arctic oil despite Statoil’s unsuccessful drilling

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 13:55 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 14:01
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«It is like a football match; you do not always strike a goal in the first attack», says Mayor of

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Alaska youth environmental group asks state to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 18:16
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A group of youth activists, impatient with the state’s response to global warming, formally petitioned Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s administration

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Massive let down for Statoil as Arctic well comes up short

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 15:36
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The Norwegian oil company had great expectations to its northernmost ever well. But the Korpfjell turned out to be a

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

French company Total will play important role in Arctic Russia LNG project

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 15:28 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 19:08
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Company Total likely to play crucial role in Arctic LNG-2, the grand project planned on the remote Arctic coast of

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Federal geologists to update oil potential in northern Alaska

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 15:11 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 15:13
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Spurred by a president who wants oil companies to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, federal geologists have begun poking

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Greenpeace activists released after oil protest in Arctic Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 13:51 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 18:15
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Six activists, including the captain of «Arctic Sunrise», have been fined for violating the safety zone around the Norwegian oil-rig

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U.S. congressmen look for ways to open up Alaska’s natural resources

Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 18, 2017 at 15:31 — Last Updated: Friday, August 18, 2017 at 15:33
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Alaska Rep. Don Young has spent the week guiding some of his fellow Republican members of Congress around some of

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Moratorium on Arctic offshore licenses will continue, says Russian minister

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 13:41
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«It will last at least until year 2020». The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources introduced the moratorium on oil and

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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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Drilling from man-made island into Arctic Ocean approved by U.S. government

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 19:50
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The Trump Administration Wednesday approved an oil company’s plans to explore for oil in federal territory of the U.S. Arctic

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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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