Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2009
CIRI), an Alaska Native corporation, is proposing an underground coal gasification (UCG) project that would use the resulting syngas to fuel a new 100 MW combined cycle power plant. CIRI executives presented the plan to state lawmakers at a joint hearing in Alaska on Friday. Source: CIRI. Click to enlarge. Cook Inlet Region Inc.
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DECEMBER 10, 2009
The 2008 sale was included in the previous Administration’s 2007-2012 Five-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program to cover leasing for oil and gas in the Outer Continental Shelf for that five-year period. The Exploration Plan now approved allows Shell to drill up to three exploration wells during the July-October open water drilling season.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Final Determination under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) that blocks the development of Northern Dynasty Mineral’s proposed Pebble copper and gold mining project in Alaska. NDM says that the Pebble deposit is the world’s largest undeveloped copper and gold resource.
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MAY 2, 2012
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the completion of a successful test of technology in the North Slope of Alaska that was able to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates. Conceptual rendering of CO 2 – CH 4 exchange methodology for the production of natural gas from hydrates. Source: NETL. Click to enlarge.
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MARCH 2, 2012
Nghiem’s team used the topography of mountain ranges in Alaska and Canada as a “ruler” to measure the altitude at which the explosions took place. It also contains more frost flowers—clumps of ice crystals up to four times saltier than ocean waters—providing more salt sources to fuel bromine releases.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2009
A product of the interagency US Global Change Research Program, the 190-page report was commissioned in 2007 and completed this spring. Climate changes are already affecting water, energy, transportation, agriculture, ecosystems, and health. Climate change will stress water resources. Threats to human health will increase.
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MARCH 5, 2010
A section of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane (CH 4 ) is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov. Natalia Shakhova.
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