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Oil Rig Aground in Alaska Is Towed From Shoreline
2013-01-07 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A week after it ran aground along a rocky shoreline in the Gulf of Alaska, a Shell Oil drilling rig was refloated and towed to safer water for inspection, officials said Monday. Sean Churchfield, operations manager for Shell Alaska and a member of the response team that includes representatives from Shell, the Coast Guard and Alaskas environmental agency, said the rig was refloated late Sunday night and arrived in Kiliuda Bay, a sheltered area on Kodiak Island about 300 miles southwest of Anchorage,...
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Alvarion Helps ASTAC Provide Connectivity Services to Remote Workers and Rural Communities in Alaska
2013-01-07 10:58:36| Wireless - Topix.net
Alvarion's solution has changed the way we deliver Internet services," said Jens Laipenieks, Manager of Sales and Business Development, ASTAC .
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Rough Weather Hinders Work to Move Rig Stranded in Alaska
2013-01-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Taking advantage of a break in the weather, salvage crews on Sunday attached a tow line to a drilling rig that ran aground last week in the Gulf of Alaska. Officials said that the rig, the Kulluk, was stable and that there was no sign of environmental damage. With the line attached to a ship, the Aiviq, preparations were under way to move the rig from its spot along a rocky shoreline on Sitkalidak Island to a sheltered harbor for inspection. We have made the tow connection to the Kulluk, said...
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Weather disrupts Shell efforts to free Alaska oil rig
2013-01-06 21:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Coast Guard and Shell were making fresh preparations on Sunday to tow a grounded Alaska oil rig, saying crews would keep trying to connect a tow line after rough weather prevented their efforts all Saturday. According to a news release from the unified grounding response team, the aim, once the conditions are right, is to tow the rig to a sheltered bay nearby so experts can make a better assessment of its sea worthiness. Officials have declined to speculate on the exact timing of the...
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Latest Shell Debacle in Alaska Part of a Larger Pattern of Risk and Failure
2013-01-03 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Shell Oil's string of failures in its Arctic Ocean drilling attempts continued into the New Year. One of the company's drill rigs ran aground near Alaska's Kodiak Island with 150,000 gallons of diesel fuel and other petroleum products onboard. In the face of a winter storm, all four of its tow vessel's engines failed. Then the tow line failed, and repeated efforts to reattach lines and tow the rig clear of danger failed, as well. One storm thwarted Shell's plans to haul its rig to Seattle for...
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