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"We're seeing multiyear ice that they've not seen in such large quantities in over a decade, and it could impact our ability to start the well," Slaiby said. Of particular concern, he said, is the region of the Chukchi Sea around the company's Berger Prospect - potentially the crown jewel of the company's offshore oil inventory - which in normal years would be accessible by mid-July. This year, it may be unreachable until late July or early August.
Probably because pack ice in one part of Alaska isn't a large enough sample of global climate change. I take it you didn't go to college or bother studying any statistics.
Go grab a globe from the 1950's and then go buy a new one. See how there's a bunch more white on the one from the 1950's. That's what has scientists concerned. You might want to leave things to them.
Probably because pack ice in one part of Alaska isn't a large enough sample of global climate change. I take it you didn't go to college or bother studying any statistics.
Go grab a globe from the 1950's and then go buy a new one. See how there's a bunch more white on the one from the 1950's. That's what has scientists concerned. You might want to leave things to them.
Have globe from the 50's and one I got last year. Neither one shows North Polar ice. The ice pack is also not shown for Antarctica.
Probably because pack ice in one part of Alaska isn't a large enough sample of global climate change. I take it you didn't go to college or bother studying any statistics.
Go grab a globe from the 1950's and then go buy a new one. See how there's a bunch more white on the one from the 1950's. That's what has scientists concerned. You might want to leave things to them.
Scientists are losing confidence in the assertion of global warming.
You know this, but you have an agenda. You will never stray from the Progressive hand guide.
It must suck not to be free. Your whole life is planned out for you.
A newly refurbished ice-class rig that is poised to begin drilling two exploratory wells this summer in the Beaufort Sea, Shell executives said Friday that the unusually robust sea ice would further narrow what already is a tight window for operations. The company's $4-billion program is designed to measure the extent of what could be the United States' most important new inventory of oil and gas
earlier in the more remote Chukchi Sea to remain within the relatively ice-free summer season.
Meeting with reporters and Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, on board the Kulluk drilling rig in the Seattle shipyards, Shell's vice president for Alaska operations, Pete Slaiby, said the company had given up on its controversial attempt to win permission from the federal government to extend Chukchi drilling though October as well.
"Not this year. I think it's a done deal," he said.
The result is that while Canadian waters in the far northern Atlantic have relatively low ice levels, Alaska is an iceberg - at least for now.
looks like he is saying that due to federal delays for a permit he is going to shift operations to Canada since they already have a presence up here and our govronment will give them a permit to start exploring the Canadian arctic reserves.
It would be stupid for Canada not to fast track them approval if they have everything ready to go and are just held up by the 2012 U.S. elections to grant them a permit since it would I do not see Obama going ahead with any offshore Oil and Natural gas permits before the elections after the Keystone XL fiasco.
Got to laugh at the Miami Hearld doing a story on the arctic you would think reporters in Alaska would know alot more about the region and write the story.
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