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Pipeline Anxiety Spurs Alaska Plea for Obama Open Spigots
2015-08-31 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.S. agreed earlier this month to allow Royal Dutch Shell Plc to resume Arctic oil exploration, yet state officials say it may not be enough to save the 800-mile (1,300-kilometer) pipeline, Alaskas economic lifeline for the past 40 years. Efforts to limit drilling and dwindling volumes on the line may eventually make it difficult to move crude at all. We have an oil pipeline thats two-thirds empty, Walker, a Republican-turned-independent, said in a telephone interview from Anchorage. Its...
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