Alaska's Methane Hydrate Resource Spark Debate Over Energy And Climate ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one day be the next big energy source. The U.S. Department ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Waking the methane monster is madness (2)
According to Natalia Shakhova, a biogeochemist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and one of the leaders of the Siberian Shelf study, "The Siberian Shelf alone harbours an estimated 1,400 billion tonnes of methane in gas hydrates, about twice as ...blogs.redding.com
Climate-changing methane 'rapidly destabilizing' off East Coast, study finds
"Our estimate ... may therefore represent only a fraction of the methane hydrate currently destabilizing globally." The wider destabilization evidence, co-author Ben Phrampus told NBC News, includes data from the Arctic and Alaska's northern slope in ...usnews.nbcnews.com
AGIA: EXXON's conflict of interest
Exxon and Alaska's oil and gas. Exxon is Alaska's bad boy of oil development. Who does not remember the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound and the aftermath?www.examiner.com
Unexpected science lessons fresh from the rain in Alaska
We hunkered down over the hole, staring in fascination. Each little methane bubble rising from the lake bed would hit the lower edge of the ice at the hole and get stuck.newsminer.com
In Alaska elections, candidates may change but energy problem remains the same
FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- HooDoo, a new brewery in the industrial part of Fairbanks, opened its doors to a happy crowd for the first time at the end of October, just a week before Tuesday's election.www.alaskadispatch.com
Is climate change, global warming real? US Generals say it's a problem that ...
The earth is habitable because gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane trap heat, like a blanket around the earth. However, humans have added more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.www.alaskadispatch.com
Candidate Jill Stein: 'The climate catastrophe is rapidly closing in on us'
Igor Semiletov of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, recently said he has never before witnessed the scale and force of the methane being released from beneath the Arctic seabed. The volume of the methane ...www.examiner.com
Strategic Carbon heats up
The DOE called it a "successful, unprecedented test of technology in the North Slope of Alaska" to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates, "a vast, entirely untapped resource that holds enormous potential for U.S. economic ...www.seacoastonline.com
$15 million in sales
Ted Murphy, associate state director for BLM in Alaska, said after reading bids at the NPR-A sale that BLM will continue to coordinate its sale with the state and said the next sale would probably be in the last quarter of 2013.www.petroleumnews.com
New book focuses on child abuse in rural Alaska
A new book about sexual abuse, aimed at children and families, debuted this month. "Talk About Touch," by Sandy Kleven with illustrations by Patrick Minock, is set in a rural Alaskan village in which young people and their elders "talk about a ...www.adn.com
Wasteful government spending reflection of societal attitudes, values
In 2008, Sarah Palin, who was governor of Alaska at the time, was nominated as a vice presidential candidate. For several ... This project needed $700,000 in taxpayer money to tell me that cows release methane from burping and farting? How about we ...www.kstatecollegian.com
Bono Mack, Bilbray, Lungren races still not called - E&C could see broader ...
From the Daily Sentinel: "The Forest Service's regional office this week ruled against conservation groups who had appealed the agency's decision to let Arch Coal build 6.5 miles of road and 48 drilling pads for methane vents in 1,700 acres of the ...www.politico.com
Why the US is not the new Saudi Arabia
Raw natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska contains a higher percentage of methane and correspondingly smaller percentages of ethane (7 percent), propane (4 percent), butane (1 percent) and other components including carbon dioxide and pentanes ...www.csmonitor.com
Shanghai Electric taps 'combustible ice' in future energy plan
But, as Discovery News has pointed out, "some methane isn't waiting around to be extracted. University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Katey Walter Anthony studies how thawing permafrost is causing increased methane emissions. She's known for ...reneweconomy.com.au
Latest Wyoming news, sports, business and entertainment
It's difficult to say at this point exactly how many American Indians and Alaska Natives showed up to the polls. But NCAI ... Under the proposal, the fuel cell would generate electricity from methane produced by the city's Dry Creek wastewater ...www.wlfi.com
Army Corps finalizes EIS for North Slope gas line
Army Corps finalizes EIS for North Slope gas line. Wednesday, October 24 2012. The US Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to publish on October 26, the Final Environmental Impact Statement for a $7.52bn, 737-mile pipeline from the North Slope to south ...www.gasbb.com
'Ice' Storm: New Doc Shows How Swelling Oceans Threaten to Swallow ...
He was reading an article about the melting of the Arctic tundra releasing massive bubbles of methane gas into the atmosphere, which in turn causes more melting, which in turn causes global warming, which in turn creates monster storms that threaten to ...observer.com
After Obama's Re-Election, What's Next for Energy and Environment Policy?
"Tougher restrictions are expected for companies drilling on federal lands, as well as more rules governing water management and methane emissions," the news service writes. ... The Keystone XL pipeline, which they note is "far from dead, but a Romney ...stateimpact.npr.org
Weather Journal: Another Storm Possible Next Week
Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004.blogs.wsj.com
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