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Oil companies are salivating at the prospect of prospecting for crude in the Arctic. Early tests have shown significant potential for oil in the cold waters of the far North, but there was always one slight problem: ice. The ice-choked seas of the Arctic presented serious technical challenges and dangers to offshore drilling, which is [...]
Oh Greenpeace. Only PETA outshines you in the shameless publicity stunt department, and yet here I am, falling for your tricks, because this week your eco-warriors have attached themselves — literally — to a topic I can’t resist: the quest to find oil in the Arctic. At 3AM on May 29, a Greenpeace team left [...]
Here’s an interesting piece of news from Tim Webb at the Guardian about Greenland’s latest pitch to the oil industry: pay us $2 billion dollars, and then you can drill. Greenland — which is divided on whether the recent interest of global companies in its oil and gas resources is a blessing or a curse [...]
Arctic security wonks are gathering in Cambridge this week for a workshop on the challenges ahead for environmental security in the Arctic. Sound familiar? It should: When Russia planted a flag on a seabed in Russia’s Arctic waters in the summer of 2007, the specter of a circumpolar military race hung over the globe as [...]
