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New Scientist: Arctic oil and gas drilling ready to take off.

”Nothing much can be done to cope with a spill in the winter beyond tracking the ice, waiting for the oil to surface in the summer melt, then setting it alight. Yet calls for an Arctic-wide moratorium on oil exploration until safety measures are in place have gone unheeded.” Big Oil’s hoping ‘out of sight, out of mind’ will rule the Arctic oil field production.

09/01/10 • 12:07 PM • Environmental • History • Nature • Travel • No Comments

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