Will Norway make profits from Arctic oil?
Controversies about Norway’s oil-drillings off the coast of Finnmark continue as Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Terje Søviknes, this week
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Alaskans testified Thursday in U.S. Senate hearing on drilling in ANWR
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski brought together a slew of Alaskans, mostly pro-drilling, to testify at a Senate hearing about what
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Blog – Arctic nickel, not oil, could soon power the world’s cars
The Arctic is often imagined as a new energy frontier because of its ample oil reserves. But what if its
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Big dig in Kola Bay as Novatek takes new steps in Arctic gas project
Arctic gas is on the agenda as Leonid Mikhelson is in Beijing this week as part of Prime Minister Dmitry
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Sweden’s LKAB reports iron-strong earnings
Iron ore is good business and the state owned LKAB in Kiruna makes extra profit on selling highly upgraded iron
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U.S. Senate passes budget that could open ANWR
The prospect of drilling rigs in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge just got a little more realistic. The U.S. Senate
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Swedish mining company in court over toxic waste exported to Chile in the 1980s
Some 800 people in Chile have sued the Swedish mining company Boliden for damages after a pile of toxic waste
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Rosneft discovers more than 80 million tons of oil in new offshore Arctic well
It is the first ever well drilled in the Laptev Sea and drilling results show significant resources. According to Rosneft,
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A century of Norwegian coal mining in Svalbard comes to an end
The cabinet of Prime Minister Erna Solberg explicitly says it no longer wants to subsidise the digging out of black
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New bill aims to reverse Obama restrictions on Arctic offshore drilling
A U.S. House panel took up a bill Wednesday that would, among other things, block new environmental and safety standards
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Goliat oil production shut down in the Barents Sea
«Time has run out for ENI. The company is unable to adopt to standards needed to drill for oil in
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Finland’s biggest environmental crime case returns to court
An environmental crime trial about mining company Talvivaara’s past operations began at the Rovaniemi appeals court on Monday. Under scrutiny
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Sweden may start fracking in the north
Swedish mining group, LKAB, is testing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at two sites in northern Sweden. The process, where water
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Gazprom sends rig from Black Sea to new Arctic drill site
The «Amazon» makes it from the Turkish port of Tuzla to Gulf of Ob as owner Gazprom gets ready for
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Barents bishops ask Arctic Council to promote fossil-free future
«Nature and people in the Arctic region are vulnerable,» reads a letter to Finland’s Foreign Minister, currently the chair of
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