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Norwegian ships accompany Chinese rig to Russian Arctic drill site

16 July 201917 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments China, energy, Gazprom, Kara Sea, Murmansk, Novatek, offshore drilling, oil, Rosneft, Russia

A fleet of supply ships surround the Chinese rig “Nan Hai Ba Hao” as it gets ready to spud a

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Russia’s Rosneft demands tax breaks to build pipeline to Arctic shipping lane: report

11 July 201911 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, Northern Sea Route, oil, pipelines, Rosneft, taxes, Taymyr peninsula

Rosneft makes clear that it can build a 600 km long pipeline to the Arctic Ocean and export millions of

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Chinese drilling rig returns to Arctic Russia

5 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic drilling, China, energy, gas, Kara Sea, LNG, oil

It is the third year in a row that drilling rig Nan Hai 8 arrives in Murmansk to prepare for

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Small town in Arctic Russia to become Northern Sea Route shipping hub

26 June 201926 June 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, Dikson, energy, Infrastructure, Northern Sea Route, oil, shipping

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signs the decree that is to turn the remote Arctic settlement of Dikson, in the

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Another dry well for Norway’s Equinor in promising Arctic area

17 June 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Barents Sea, energy, Equinor, oil

Equinor drills its second dry well in the license area located on 74 degrees North, near the border to Russia.

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Northern Canada: Rail link downed by Alberta wildfire won’t raise fuel prices in Northwest Territories, minister says

7 June 2019 Richard Gleeson, CBC News 0 Comments Alberta, energy, forest fires, Imperial Oil, Northwest Territories, NWT, oil, rail, transport, wildfires

The added expense of trucking fuel north from Edmonton, Alberta for the annual barge resupply won’t be passed along to

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Moscow’s new energy doctrine warns against green shift

5 June 20196 June 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments climate change, energy, global warming, LNG, oil, POLICY

International efforts against climate change are alright, but only as long as they do not encroach on the country’s oil

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Inuit in northwestern Canada warn new law could entrench federal authority of Beaufort Sea

3 June 20193 June 2019 Randi Beers, CBC News 0 Comments Beaufort Sea, energy, gas, indigenous, Inuit, Inuvialuit, legislation, NWT, oil

As the federal government enters negotiations on how to co-manage oil and gas development in the Beaufort Sea, the Inuvialuit

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Unfazed by youth climate protests, Norwegian gov expands Arctic drilling

29 May 201931 May 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic drilling, climate change, energy, global warming, oil, youth

Environmentalists say the Norwegian government neglects not only the young protesters, but also professional advice of leading experts. Forty thousand

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Democrats continue fight against drilling in Arctic wildlife refuge in U.S. Congress

23 May 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, ANWR, Arctic drilling, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, energy, legislation, oil

Democrats in Washington, D.C. are still hoping to block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The latest attempt

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Chinese rig makes massive gas discovery in Arctic Russia

21 May 201921 May 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic drilling, China, energy, gas, Gazprom, Kara Sea, oil

The Nan Hai Ba Hao platform has found more than a trillion cubic meters of natural gas in the Kara

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Russia’s new energy security doctrine focuses on global threats and challenges

15 May 201916 May 2019 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments climate change, energy, energy security doctrine, gas, national security, oil, Vladimir Putin

Western sanctions, armed conflicts and cyber-attacks against energy infrastructure, moving of the centre of global economic gravity towards the Asia-Pacific