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Melting Arctic easing access to fossil fuels
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FuelFix: More direct routes may be opening up in the Arctic, as melting ice has made previously unnavigable routes a growing possibility for large ships, including tankers carrying oil and gas, an expert said Wednesday at the Third Houston Shipping and Offshore Conference. "The ice is melting and a new ocean is opening up," said Johan Vold, managing director of the Energy Policy Foundation of Norway and a former executive at Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil. The conference was held at the Houstonian Hotel...
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'Arctic 30' journalist Kieron Bryan says Jane Eyre is helping him in detention
2013-10-21 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardians: The British freelance journalist held in Russia on piracy charges following a Greenpeace demonstration against Arctic oil drilling last month has told his family that he is coping with his detention by exercising, writing and reading Jane Eyre. Kieron Bryan, a 29-year-old videographer who was hired by the environmental group to document its protest in the Pechora Sea, said he was doing his best to look after himself in "very basic conditions". In a 20-minute phone call to his mother from the...
Hundreds of Protests in 36 Countries Demand Release Arctic 30
2013-10-18 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Today, as the Arctic 30 face their 30th day of imprisonment in Russia, nearly 10,000 people are taking to the streets at more than 100 events in 36 countries to call for their immediate release, according to a Greenpeace press release. Last night, the grounds of the Greenpeace office in Murmansk, Russia, were broken into. CCTV footage, released today by Greenpeace International, shows six men in balaclavas scaling a fence and entering the grounds. A mock cage--which was to be used to highlight...
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Do you really want your oil from the Arctic?
2013-10-18 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Oil is oil, right? The fuel that powers the cars, jets, tractors and industry that drives the global economy is a commodity. Quality standards ensure, for the most part, that each barrel of oil, each visit to the petrol pump, is the same as any other. Meanwhile, the combination of OPEC and global exchanges set a price, meaning the underlying cost of each barrel of oil is the same. But anyone who peeks beneath the bonnet of the global oil industry quickly discovers that, when it comes to how oil...
UK aims to become hub for Arctic oil exploration
2013-10-17 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government wants the UK to be a global centre of expertise in opening up the Arctic to exploration by oil and gas companies, promoting London as a hub of business services for the burgeoning exploitation of the polar regions, according to a Foreign Office strategy published on Thursday. The green light is likely to enrage conservationists, as a group of Greenpeace activists and journalists have been imprisoned in Russia after protesting against fossil fuel exploration in the region. But...
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