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Arctic oil rig departs Seattle-area port despite protest
2015-07-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. Coast Guard and police boats cleared a way through protesters in kayaks at a Seattle-area port on Tuesday so Royal Dutch Shell's second of two Arctic drilling rigs could depart for Alaska. The activists, who have staged frequent demonstrations during the past two months against Shell's planned oil exploration in the Chukchi Sea, said 21 protesters in kayaks took to the waters just beyond the Port of Everett from where the oil rig left. The activists who entered the safety zone around the Noble...
Is Arctic oil a losing gamble?
2015-06-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe And Mail: Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of International Law and the Arctic, which was awarded the Donner Prize in 2014. Eighty-three billion barrels: Thats how much oil could be present in the Arctic, according to a high-profile U.S. geological survey report released in 2008. But the wave of excitement from the report is now receding, as some harsh realities sink in. First, 83 billion barrels...
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Green groups urge US Interior to withdraw Shells risky Arctic drilling approval
2015-06-24 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Green groups have urged the US Department of Interior to withdraw its conditional approval for Royal Dutch Shell's Arctic oil exploration plan.
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Exceptional view of deep Arctic Ocean methane seeps
2015-06-22 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Close to 30,000 high definition images of the deep Arctic Ocean floor were captured on a recent research cruise. This gives researchers insight into the most remote sites of natural methane release in the world. Over a course of 12 days Dr. Giuliana Panieri and her colleagues from Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate collected images from seven areas of known methane release in the Arctic Ocean. One of them was Vestnesa Ridge, with over 1000 active seep sites at the depth of over...
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Offshore US: regulating risk in the Arctic
2015-06-16 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
US regulators have for the first time recognised the unique challenges of drilling for oil in the storm-tossed waters of the Arctic. New proposed Arctic-specific rules, unpopular with industry, have created a higher regulatory bar for responding to s
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