High Arctic planning area included in latest U.S. offshore oil & gas lease plan
With energy security continuing to be a key issue in the U.S., the Trump administration is moving forward with plans
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Alaska governor asks Trump to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling
By Becky Bohrer Gov. Mike Dunleavy pushes for ‘critical agency actions that would restore opportunity to Alaska’ Alaska Gov. Mike
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Arctic Canadian community says oil moratorium renewal doesn’t go far enough
An Arctic Canadian community says it’s disappointed with Ottawa’s one-year extension of an oil exploration moratorium, saying it doesn’t go
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US takes aim at some Trump offshore safety rule rollbacks
The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday that it wants to reverse some Trump administration rollbacks of offshore safety
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Russia taking over ownership stakes in Arctic oil field
Russia announced further moves Tuesday to take over foreign ownership stakes in energy projects, saying it would acquire the stock
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Canadian Gwich’in leaders and conservationists suing U.S. over leasing program for Arctic wildlife refuge
A Gwich’in organization created to protect nearly 20 million acres of sacred, traditional land in Alaska, along with 12 other
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Trump Administration approves oil, gas leasing plan for Alaska Wildlife refuge
The Trump administration on Monday took another step to opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling for oil and
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Deutsche Bank won’t finance any new Arctic oil and gas projects
The Frankfurt-based bank adopted its new Fossil Fuels Policy on Monday with strict limitations on future involvement in coal, oil and gas.
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Over 100 million cubic meters of sea bottom removed for natural gas project in Russian Arctic bay
Never before has the Arctic seen an industrial expansion of this magnitude. In only few years, volumes of extracted hydrocarbons
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Blog – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic
Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three
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Regional government to undertake big cleanup before gas drilling in Arctic Russia
Regional authorities will spend 100 million rubles on environmental upgrades of tundra lands as Gazprom starts development of its new
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Ottawa signals it’s open to talks on offshore Arctic oil and gas development
The Canadian government says it is open to talks with territorial governments, industry, and Indigenous governments and communities on the
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Traffic on Northern Sea Route surging 80 %, says Russia
A total of 9,95 million tons of goods have so far this year been shipped to and from ports on
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Russia’s Gazprom wants to build manmade islands for Arctic drilling, but will it clean up when it’s done?
Gazprom wants to build islands on shallow Arctic waters for well drilling, but argues that it will be too difficult
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Norway and EU clash over rights to resource-rich waters around Svalbard
The dispute over rights to snow crab fishing steps up as the Committee on Fisheries says the European Commission’s diplomatic
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