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Russia showing renewed interest in Svalbard’s oil potential

3 September 20194 September 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic drilling, energy, Grumant, oil, Svalbard

The well Grumantskaya-1 in Svalbard proved little or no oil and gas resources and was soon abandoned by Soviet authorities.

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Companies building Russia’s Arctic mega-projects expect major tax breaks: reports

29 August 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, gas, Northern Sea Route, Novatek, oil, pipelines, Rosneft

Natural gas company Novatek gets 40 billion rubles tax deductions for the building of a grand port terminal in the

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MLAs in Canada’s Northwest Territories approve updates to decades-old oil ans gas laws

15 August 201915 August 2019 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments energy, gas, legislation, Northwest Territories, NWT, oil

MLAs in the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, have passed two pieces of oil and gas legislation, replacing decades-old legislation.

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Putin’s Arctic shipping goals mobilizing officials, industry

8 August 20198 August 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, energy, gas, LNG, Northern Latitudinal Passage, Northern Sea Route, oil, shipping

How much goods can be shipped along Russia’s Arctic route between Europe and Asia? The Ministry of Transport believes shipments

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Rosneft announces more offshore drilling in Arctic Russia

30 July 201930 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic drilling, energy, Kara Sea, oil, Rosneft

Five years after it found one of the largest oil fields in Arctic waters, Rosneft makes clear that more drilling

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Russia’s Rosneft gives oil barrel-looking toys to zoo-enclosed polar bears

19 July 201922 July 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments oil, polar bear, Rosneft, Russia

The plastic plaything is aimed to prevent the animals from going nuts in captivity. You might have seen one in

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Norwegian ships accompany Chinese rig to Russian Arctic drill site

16 July 201919 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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