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(Aaron Jansen illustration / Alaska Dispatch)
Business USA 

Some Alaska industries increasingly staff out-of-state workers, report

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 15:36
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It’s something that never fails to rile Alaskans — valuable in-state jobs going to Outsiders. More of those jobs are

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Blog Environment Environment (Russia) Russia 

Ice-Blog: Arctic infrastructure cannot keep pace

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, February 10, 2014 at 15:06
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The Russian response to Greenpeace’s protest at the Arctic Prirazlomnoye oil rig made it clear to a lot of people

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Federal officials will travel to ten Nunavut communities starting next week to talk about the potential for oil and gas exploration in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)
Canada Society Society (Canada) 

Oil and gas consultations in Canada’s eastern Arctic next week

CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 31, 2014 at 12:19
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Federal officials will travel to ten communities in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut beginning next week. They’re inviting people

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Politics Politics (Norway) 

Ice-Blog: Arctic hot topic in icy Tromso

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, January 20, 2014 at 15:31 — Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 10:01
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It’s standing room only for anyone who came a bit late to the opening of Arctic Frontiers this morning. This

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What will the new Arctic highway mean for residents in Inuvik (pictured above) and elsewhere in the region? Photo Credit: (Eilis Quinn / Eye on the Arctic)
Blog Business Business (Canada) 

Feature Interview: What Arctic highway project tells us about Canada’s plans for North

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 17, 2014 at 13:23 — Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 10:48
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Construction on Canada’s long planned Arctic highway project in the western Arctic got underway this month. The project will connect

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Airborne light detecting and ranging is being used in Arctic Alaska to identify polar bear denning sites. (The Canadian Press)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Laser technology used to map polar bear den habitat

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2013 at 14:17
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What is the best way to find sites that could be used for polar bear dens, the cozy snow caves

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Royal Dutch Shell's Kulluk drillship in the Beaufort Sea in fall 2012. (Royal Dutch Shell/Alaska Dispatch)
Business USA 

Shell plans Arctic Alaska comeback

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, December 6, 2013 at 16:12
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Royal Dutch Shell is back, baby! Well, maybe. The Netherlands-based oil giant has long said it would not return to

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(LM Otero / AP)
Business USA 

Conoco adds rigs to Alaska operations

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 12:27
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Oil rigs usually do their work in obscurity, but the two that ConocoPhillips hopes will help boost production on the

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Blog 

Ice-Blog: Philippines, Warsaw, Arctic – join the dots

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 15:49
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I have very mixed feelings as the UN climate conference gets underway in Warsaw just as the Philippines are devastated

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Blog 

Ice-Blog: Greenpeace: Pirates, Hooligans – what next?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 11:27
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If it didn’t involve thirty committed conservationists being imprisoned and intimidated, I might be inclined to see the Russian authorities’

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Norway's new Prime Minister Erna Solberg.(Stian Lysberg Solum, /NTB Scanpix / AP)
Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Conservative government takes office in Norway

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at 15:25
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STAVANGER, Norway — A conservative government promising tax cuts and stricter controls on immigration has taken office in Norway. Incoming

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The Norwegian Sea off Norway's Arctic archipelago Lofoten. (Nina Larson / AFP)
Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norway faces minority government after coalition talks fail

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Monday, September 30, 2013 at 15:56
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Ruling parties agreed to keep some sensitive areas off limits to Norway’s sprawling oil industry, including the Arctic Lofoten and

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January sunset in Northern Norway. (Mia Bennett)
Blog 

Commodifying nature: The price of ice

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 11:44
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A graduate student recently interviewed me for his dissertation on Russia, the Arctic, oil and gas. During the interview, he

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Erna Solberg led her Conservative Party to victory in the September 9, 2013 vote alongside three other centre-right parties, putting an end to eight years of centre-left rule. (Lise Aserud / NTB scanpix / AFP)
Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norway’s new government to reshape world’s largest wealth fund

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 14:39
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Norway’s incoming centre-right government plans to revamp and possibly break up the country’s $750-billion oil fund, changing how one of

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New U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell is headed to Alaska to spend a night in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a perennial battleground for environmentalists and proponents of oil drilling on Alaska's North Slope. (USFWS / Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

U.S. interior secretary to spend night in ANWR

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 09:15
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New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is headed to Alaska to spend a night in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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