The Arctic Drilling Ban: Much Ado About Nothing?
Outgoing President Barack Obama is about to invoke a 1953 law in a bid to protect the Arctic and Atlantic shelf of the United States from the claws of the Continue Reading
U.S., Canadian voices chime in on drilling ban
U.S. and Canadian voices debated the wisdom of the indefinite ban on oil and gas work in some of its territorial waters, the Arctic in particular. As part of a Continue Reading
Obama Banned Arctic and Atlantic Offshore Drilling and Big Oil Isn’t Happy
President Obama has announced what amounts to a ban of offshore drilling in huge swaths of continental shelf in both the Alaskan Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, a decision which Continue Reading
US, Canada designate nearly all Arctic waters off limits to drilling: White House
The US and Canada agreed Tuesday to designate the majority of their Arctic waters off limits to oil and natural gas drilling. The US is also permanently withdrawing areas of Continue Reading
Could Tillerson Open Up The Russian Arctic For Exxon Again?
If the ExxonMobil CEO is confirmed as the new U.S. Secretary of State, the evolving relationship between Russia and the United States will take an interesting turn. Rex Tillerson could Continue Reading
Russian oil producer pushes deeper in Arctic
Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft said it was starting sea trials for a vessel meant to support oil work, including spill response, in extreme Arctic climates. The company said the Continue Reading
More reserves uncovered in Barents Sea
Swedish energy company Lundin Petroleum said Tuesday it made an oil and gas discovery in a frontier area near an existing field in the Barents Sea. The company’s Norwegian subsidiary Continue Reading
Obama Scraps Arctic Drilling Ahead Of Trump Presidency
The Obama administration is rushing to get a flurry of priorities done before Donald Trump takes office. One of those items was a five-year lease plan from the Department of Continue Reading
‘Things are getting weird in the polar regions’
A collage of melting sea ice in the Kane Basin between Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island. As extraordinarily warm temperatures continue in the Arctic — temperatures tens of degrees Fahrenheit Continue Reading
Obama’s Offshore-Oil Plan Forces Drillers to Focus on U.S. Gulf
Five-year schedule of lease sales leaves out Arctic, Atlantic Environmentalists have pressed for permanent protections The Obama administration’s decision to forgo auctions of new oil and gas drilling rights in Continue Reading