Alaska oil exploration to begin
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The US offers rights for oil and gas in an area of north-western Alaska renowned for its wildlife.
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A decision on whether to protect Alaska's polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, although staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
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Russian geologists say they have data that would support a claim to a huge energy-rich area in the Arctic.
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MOSCOW  - Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed off Friday on a project to build an oil pipeline stretching from eastern Siberia to the port of Pervoznaya on Russia's Pacific Coast.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge has upheld  the Bush administration's plans to allow oil drilling  throughout a large section of federal land on Alaska's North  Slope, rejecting arguments by environmental groups that  unfettered oil development would harm the region.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people were ready  to begin cleaning up an oil spill threatening endangered  animals on Sunday, four days after a ship broke apart and six  people died in a helicopter rescue attempt.
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Three companies led by Chevron say they have found what may be the biggest US oil field outside Alaska.
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New mapping data that shows Alaska's continental shelf extending farther out to sea than previously believed may bolster U.S. claims to oil and gas reserves contained in areas currently the subject of an international dispute.
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Crude oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill still lingers in Alaska's Prince William Sound and nearby areas, with parts of the environment still far from recovery, several scientists said at a three-day conference.
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Denmark is joining Russia and Canada to see if it can lay a claim to the North Pole &#151; and whatever natural riches may lie beneath it.
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In a win for environmentalists, the  U.S. Interior Department says it is willing to withdraw  sensitive wetlands from a large area in Alaska's western Arctic  region that it wanted to open next week to oil and natural gas  drilling.
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Denmark is vying with Russia in a race to map the Arctic seabed and stake a claim to its resources.
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A decision on whether to protect Alaska's polar bears under the Endangered Species Act might not come before the government opens a major bear habitat to oil leases next week, though staff recommendations are completed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chief said Wednesday.
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The directors of two Interior Department agencies said Thursday they're confident oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska can proceed without threatening polar bears that depend on the sea ice
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The terms of a proposal to develop and ship North Slope gas have Alaskans up in arms.
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By Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 21--WASILLA -- An Anchorage engineering firm wants to build a small, run-of-the-river hydroelectric project on Fishhook Creek, in a ravine below the road to Hatcher Pass.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A U.S. federal appeals court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc  to suspend oil exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by environmental activists and Alaska native groups.