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Arctic Finds Make Case for Northern Norway Oil Hub, Lundin Says
2014-01-29 16:09:53| Appliances - Topix.net
Recent oil discoveries in Norway's Arctic Barents Sea, including one by Lundin Petroleum AB , have made the case for the construction of billions of dollars of export infrastructure, the Swedish oil explorer said.
Is climate change a northern catastrophe or an Arctic opening?
2014-01-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: This is part of The North, a Globe investigation of unprecedented change, to the climate, culture and politics of Canadas last frontier. Join the conversation with #GlobeNorth The Globes Artic Circle panel of experts and leaders is discussing five key questions about Northern issues. Their responses and conversations have appeared on Globe Debate. Doug Saunders: The crucial factor in the future of the North is the melting of the polar ice cap, already well underway. How will this change the lives,...
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Why Are Arctic Bird Populations Declining?
2014-01-24 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: On Coats Island, in northern Hudson Bay, thick-billed murres--members of the auk family--have been under assault on several fronts in recent years. Polar bears, faced with a sharp decline in the sea ice from which they hunt ringed seals, have retreated to the island and are eating the murres eggs. As the sea ice disappears, the murres now have to fly farther and work harder to get food that they normally find along the ice edges. And as temperatures around Hudson Bay rise, mosquitoes are hatching...
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Shell's Arctic drilling set back by US court ruling
2014-01-23 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Shell's hopes of drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska this summer faced a serious setback when a US federal court ruled that the full range of environmental risks had not been assessed by the government. The 9th circuit court of appeals ruled in favour of green groups and Native Alaskan tribes which want Shell and its partners to call off their exploration programme for fear of an oil spill. The Anglo Dutch oil group declined to comment on the implications of the court case and would only say:...
U.S. appeals court throws Arctic drilling into further doubt
2014-01-23 07:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Interior Department wrongly awarded offshore oil leases in the Chukchi Sea near Alaska in 2008 without considering the full range of environmental risks posed by drilling in the Arctic. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the on-going dispute - pitting environmental groups and Native Alaska tribes against the federal government and energy companies - back to U.S. District in Anchorage, Alaska. It was not immediately...
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