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US EPA fines Shell for Arctic pollution violations
2013-09-10 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Shell Gulf of Mexico and Shell Offshore have agreed to pay fines of $1.1m imposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for violations of the Clean Air Act by vessels used to drill two oil-exploration wells in Arctic waters off Alaska last
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Climate change: Size of Arctic ice caps increases
2013-09-09 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: After last year's record low ice cover in the Arctic, the size of the northern ice caps appears to have increased this year. The Mail on Sunday cites a leaked report to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which says there was 60 per cent more Arctic sea ice this August than at the same time last year. The minimum reading for the year normally comes in September. Arctic sea ice partially melts each summer, returning in the winter. But the summer retreat has been increasing...
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Drones Find New Purpose Studying Arctic Ice Melt
2013-09-08 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The logical next step for exploring some of the world's most inhospitable terrain is being taken. Researchers are using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) -- drones -- to explore the last great repositories of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska. Researchers are using unmanned aerial vehicles -- drones -- to explore the last great repositories of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska. About two dozen universities and research organizations, including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Shell to pay $1.1 million in fines for Arctic air-quality violations
2013-09-06 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Shell has agreed to pay $1.1 million for air-quality violations from the vessels it used to drill two oil-exploration wells in Arctic waters off Alaska last year, federal regulators said. Shell will pay the civil fines for Clean Air Act violations that were discovered during inspections of the Discoverer and Kulluk drillships, which operated in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, the Environmental Protection Agency said late on Thursday. The breaches of air-quality permits that Shell needed to operate...
Tullow makes first Arctic oil discovery
2013-09-06 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tullow Oil, one of the Britain's most successful exploration groups, has made its first discovery in the Arctic in a move which will encourage more drilling and anger green groups campaigning against fossil fuel extraction in the region. Shares in Tullow climbed more than 3% as well operator OMV said it had struck a reservoir in the Barents Sea off the far north of Norway which could contain up to 160m barrels of oil and 40bn cubic feet of recoverable gas. "This is a major frontier light oil...
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