Oil comes to the rescue of Arctic town
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The sprawling fish processing plant that once dominated the downtown waterfront of this Arctic town is gone, with workers racing in the Polar darkness to build its replacement, a sparkling new cultural center.
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SWIFT action by Environment Agency staff helped prevent a North Wales river from being badly polluted after a tanker crash.   An estimated 4,000 litres of red diesel spilled into the Afon Elwy, near Pandy Tudur, Llanrwst, last Friday.
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Fuel oil from the Selendang Ayu has reached a fishing community 50 miles from the wreckage of the grounded freighter, prompting new concerns about the effect of last month's spill in the Bering Sea.
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Here's a way to benefit from an increase in the global demand for oil.
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By RASHA MADKOUR Associated Press  They will provide about 25 percent of the power when the outpost is completed.
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IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory -- Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures.
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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 the season's first arctic cold blast in  the Northeast.
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Residents of a Norwegian Arctic town cower as bullying reindeer seize control of their streets
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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Students in a struggling town in Arkansas benefit from the local petroleum company
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An Alaska National Guard helicopter reached a frozen Arctic village on Tuesday with technicians who hoped to repair its electrical generator, which failed Sunday during a blizzard that sent the temperature to 20 below zero.
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An operation is under way to evacuate an oil rig off Aberdeen in the North Sea, following a security alert.
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CORAL HARBOUR, Nunavut (CP) - An estimated 200 litres of fuel spilled near the northern coastal community of Coral Harbour during a resupply operation Friday, Nunavut officials said.
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THE LIVES lives of dozens of birds - including three rare avocet chicks - are in danger after an oil spillage polluted a North-East nature reserve.  Staff at WWT Washington Wetland Centre, on Wearside, were last night monitoring the water at Wader Lake after oil was found.
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An artist's rendering of a bowhead whale diving. (Richard Ellis) Our endless quest for that wondrous liquid fossil fuel, oil, is expanding toward the ends of the Earth as higher prices justify more extreme extraction efforts. Jad Mouawad, my friend and colleague covering the global oil industry, ventured to frigid Barrow, Alaska, recently to write about [...].
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Some hope the oil industry will prompt business and workers to return to the state, where the population peaked in 1930.
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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.