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...committee chairman in the late 1990s, he took on environmentalists and the Bill Clinton administration in pushing for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and logging in Alaska national forests. He headed the transportation committee...
ANCHORAGE - Crews aboard two aircraft flew over an oil drilling ship Tuesday that went aground in a severe Alaska storm and saw no sign that the vessel was leaking fuel or that its hull had been...
...main reason."It's hard to get to," he said.Sheer distance has saved this place from fur trapping, mining, oil drilling, airstrip building and other endeavors that leave a mark. A moist climate good for decomposition is also allowing...
ANCHORAGE - No damage has been found on a Shell Oil drilling ship that lost its mooring in Alaska's Dutch Harbor, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.Coast Guard Lt. Jim Fothergill said video...
ANCHORAGE - Two environmental groups say cold-water corals discovered near a proposed Shell Oil drilling site in the Chukchi Sea deserve additional review, but the company contends they have been studied and are not threatened.Greenpeace...
...western Greenland."It felt slightly surreal," recalled Ben Ayliffe, now the head of Greenpeace's campaign against oil drilling the Arctic. "After what happened in the Gulf of Mexico, how can anyone respond to that by going to drill in similar...
...gained momentum as it won necessary permits from the Interior Department.Shell's project would be the first time oil drilling occurred in the U.S. Arctic Ocean since the early 1990s. But environmentalists, some indigenous Alaskan groups...
...and Alaska Native groups on Wednesday appealed an air permit granted by the Environmental Protection Agency to a Shell Oil drilling ship that could be used this summer in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's northern shore.The groups claim the Kulluk...
...Permit drilling on federal lands and offshore, build the Keystone pipeline, open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, stop intentionally bankrupting coal plants and approve more nuclear reactors.? Eliminate tax incentives and regulations...
...25-year high. This activity is adding to the natural gas glut because natural gas is almost always a byproduct of oil drilling.Analysts say that before long companies could have to start slowing the gas flow from existing wells or even take...