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Greenpeace activists board arctic oil drilling rig

2014-05-27 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Greenpeace activists boarded an oil rig in the Norwegian Arctic on Tuesday to try to stop exploration plans in the far north. Greenpeace, which regularly calls Statoil an 'Arctic aggressor', said plans to drill in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea threaten Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary which is home to rare species and occasionally to polar bears. Oil firms are drilling further north in Norway than ever as the Arctic ice retreats and recent regulation changes let firms work in areas...

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Greenpeace protesters board Statoil's Arctic drilling rig

2014-05-27 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Activists from environmental group Greenpeace have climbed aboard an oil drilling rig in the Norwegian Arctic on Tuesday, trying to stop Statoil's exploration plans in one of the world's northernmost prospects, the group said on Tuesday. Greenpeace, which regularly calls Norwegian state-owned Statoil an 'Arctic aggressor', said plans to drill in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea threaten Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary which is home to rare species and occasionally to polar bears....

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Unprepared for Arctic Oil

2014-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Living on Earth: As sea ice melts, the arctic is increasingly a target for oil exploration. But as scientist Mark Reed of the Norwegian Research Center SINTEF tells host Steve Curwood, there's a lack of infrastructure in place to clean up an oil spill in the fragile arctic ecosystem. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. As the Arctic regions warm with the changing climate, the oil industry has sought to drill offshore in the northernmost seas. But even though the Arctic Ocean has less...

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Technip confirms award for the engineering, procurement and construction of Arctic Yamal LNG project

2014-05-18 14:30:31| Green Car Congress

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Norway bets on global warming in Arctic oil and gas drive

2014-05-14 13:21:21| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Norway wants to let oil and gas companies drill in Arctic seas that were frozen as recently as the 1980s even though some climate experts say it is too early to trust global warming to keep the ice away.

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