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Vol. 14, No. 49 Week of December 06, 2009
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Melt could cost trillions

Pipelines, roads, buildings threatened by extreme temperature swings in Arctic

Gary Park

For Petroleum News

A meltdown in northern Canada is endangering pipelines, roads and buildings — including C$5 trillion worth of aging infrastructure — if climate change continues unabated in the decades ahead, says a report by an independent federal advisory panel. Softening permafrost and rising temperatures mean b....

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Report has recommendations

Cuts undermine monitoring

Lessons learned

Expected impacts

Arctic sea ice all but gone

Multiyear ice at 19 percent


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