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New shipping channel will carry natural gas through the Arctic
2014-07-11 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Most people think the thinning of the sea ice at the top of the world is a bad thing. But not shipping and fossil fuel interests. Shipping companies this week announced that they would use icebreakers to carve a new Arctic shipping route to help them deliver natural gas from a processing plant in western Siberia to customers in Japan and China. The Wall Street Journal reports: Once virtually impassable, the Arctic Ocean is now attracting interest as a shipping route because global warming has...
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