Arctic boom town lit up by gas development
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HAMMERFEST, Norway  - A 100-metre-high flame from a new gas plant symbolizes the rebirth of Hammerfest, which claims to be the world's northernmost town and is seeing its fortunes transformed by fossil fuels found off its coast.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA - The number of oil and gas wells to be drilled in Canada next year could climb 8 percent to a record because of a surge in coal-bed methane activity, the oil-field service industry predicted last week.
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Aida Edemariam on how the world's biggest oil rush is tearing apart a frontier town in Alberta and its people
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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Red lines on a map show cracks in the ground menacing Kiruna, a model town in Sweden's frozen north which may have to be moved as the world's biggest underground mine is dug deeper beneath it.
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The federal government will open up nearly 46,000 square miles off Alaska's northwest coast to petroleum leases next month, a decision condemned by enviromental groups that contend the industrial activity will harm northern marine mammals.
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Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb.
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There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.
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By BOB WEBER  EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta's oilsands are in for increased worldwide scrutiny as international environmental groups set up shop in Edmonton to monitor the expansion and impact of the greenhouse gas-emitting mega-projects.
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Shares rise in Cairn Energy following its latest discovery of another gas reserve in north west India.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Imperial Oil Ltd and Exxon Mobil Corp turned heads in the oil industry in July with a nearly $600 million bid that won them a big exploration block in Canada's Beaufort Sea.
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A breakthrough technology is generating hyper growth.
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By THE DENVER POST The Rocky Mountains' recent cold and snow has put a chill on natural gas production.
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Global warming (news - web sites) is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods
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Canada has said it will build two military facilities in the Arctic. Are we witnessing a scramble for resources in the region?
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Oil prices surged nearly 6 percent on  Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a fall in heating oil  stocks in the midst of an arctic cold blast in the Northeast,  the world's largest heating oil market.
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By Tran, Tu-Uyen  With business booming in Grand Forks' lndustrial Park economic development experts are seeing the need for better streets and, in the long run, more land.