Greenpeace activists board oil platform in Arctic Norway
Four representatives of Greenpeace jumped onboard oil rig West Hercules as it was being made ready for the drilling of
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Russian researchers applaud construction of Arctic station
There was pride and celebration among the people who assembled on 20th December at the Admiralty Yard in St.Petersburg (Western
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Washington urged to cancel offshore plans in Arctic
Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm about the Interior Department’s efforts to hold an offshore oil lease sale in
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Blog: A glimpse of the Arctic’s past and future in Newfoundland, Canada
For five hundred years, the island of Newfoundland was known for its seemingly infinite cod stocks. The confluence of the warm
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Goliat remains shut down, Norway orders power outage prevention plan
ENI has been ordered to identify and implement necessary measures following the loss of power on the Barents Sea oil
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Blog: Parallels drawn between space race and Arctic offshore development
The reaction to the U.S. government’s decision to conditionally allow Shell to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer has
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Blog: Obama defends Arctic drilling weeks after Kerry promotes clean energy at Arctic Council
At the Arctic Council ministerial in Iqaluit, Canada on April 25, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waxed poetic about
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Blog: Goliat arrives in Hammerfest, poised to open new frontier in Arctic offshore oil
April 17 was a historic day for humanity on the earth’s final and last frontiers. As the International Space Station berthed SpaceX’s Dragon this
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Blog: Sanctions on Russia – Helping or hindering the Arctic environment?
Many in the Arctic have vowed that tensions outside the region between Russia and the West would not affect circumpolar
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Blog: China-Russia gas deal creates Arctic winners and losers
The $400 billion, 30-year China-Russia gas deal signed in Shanghai on May 21 has sparked a lot of excitement about
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Blog: Putin signs law allowing oil and gas corporations to defend infrastructure
On September 28, 2013, 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists sailing on the non-profit organization’s icebreaker, Arctic Sunrise, boarded Russia’s
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Blog: What’s in a name? The Japanese-built, Chinese-chartered icebreaker – MV Nunavik
At the Nunavik Nickel Project mine in northern Quebec, Japanese shipbuilding skills, Chinese mining expertise, and European demand are combining
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Blog: Air Greenland nixes helicopter order
Earlier this week, we looked at some stories about how the reality of drilling in the Arctic wasn’t necessarily living
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