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Oil and Arctic Ocean Make A Highly Troublesome Mix
2015-06-08 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Last October, an unmanned barge with 950 gallons of fuel on board was in the Beaufort Sea when it broke free from the tug towing it. The weather was stormy and the tug captain decided it was too dangerous to try to retrieve the barge in turbulent seas. Ideally, the Canadian Coast Guard would have been on hand to deal with the situation. But the icebreaker it routinely dispatches to the Beaufort Sea Krichevsky/Wikimedia Commons The Russian oil rig Prirazlomnaya, operated by energy giant Gasprom,...
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