7,116 posts tagged alaska
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Inupiat Eskimo sue Shell to fend off danger of offshore oil
http://royaldutchshellplc.com/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ inupiat-eskimo-sue-shell-to-fend-of…Inupiat Eskimo sue Shell to fend off danger of offshore oil Posted on by John Donovan. Categories: Alaska, Environment, Litigation. So far, neither the legal wrangling, nor the high costs of Arctic operations have daunted Shell and other top oil companies, which are eager to capitalize on soaring prices and projections of unquenchable demand for oil and gas in the coming decades.
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Major Permian-Triassic Unconformity in Alaska
http://geology.com/ news/ 2008/ major-permian-triassic-unconformity-in-alaska.sh…USGS released Professional Paper 1739-E, “A Major Unconformity Between Permian and Triassic Strata at Cape Kekurnoi, Alaska Peninsula: Old and New Observations on Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Potential”.
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Bangkok to Alaska
http://gayboythailand.com/ bangkok-thailand/ bangkok-to-alaska/A woman from FedEx in Bangkok called and said American Customs needed a form about radio efficiency. - Radio efficiency? I said. - Radio efficiency, said the woman. - I don’t understand, I said. - Let me spell it, said the woman. - Radio f-r-e-q-u-e-n-c-y form. - Radio frequency? There are no radios.
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1964 Good Friday Earthquake - Southcentral Alaska
http://annaleeblysse.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ 1964-good-friday-earthquake.htmlLast week I uploaded a handful of images to my flickr account my step grandfather took around downtown Anchorage in April 1964 after the massive earthquake that struck southcentral Alaska when my mother and father were young.
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Copper river salmon, the thousand dollar fish
http://blogfishx.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ copper-river-salmon-thousand-dollar.htm…Would you pay $1000 for a fish to eat? If you want a whole king salmon from the Copper River today, that's what it'll cost you. First of the year Copper River salmon are in Seattle, but supplies are down and prices are up because of bad weather. At some markets, prices were as high as $50 per pound--$1000 for a 20 pound king like the one in the picture.
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Alaska Decision Saves A Wetland
http://skinnymoose.com/ thinkingoutside/ ?p=781Alaska Decision Saves A Wetland This sounds like a pretty good deal for everyone. The Bush administration on Friday proposed keeping potentially oil-rich wetlands in Arctic Alaska off-limits to drilling because of their ecological sensitivity, a reversal of its earlier plan.
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Bush administration bars drilling in Arctic wetland
http://www.nowpublic.com/ environment/ bush-administration-bars-drilling-arctic-…The Bush admin is really on a roll lately. Now they have proposed keeping oil-rich wetlands in the Arctic off-limits to drilling because of their ecological sensitivity.This certainly is a change of direction for... read more
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Sleepless in Austin
http://blogoflilybet.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ sleepless-in-austin.htmlIf it's not one thing, it's another: this time, not only did Papa Silhavy's ashes get left on the baggage carousel in Seattle, but so did poor Magda. Oh! the indignity! Those things pinch, too. Meanwhile, here in Austin, I had a pretty quiet couple of days off, which I dedicated largely to manicure upkeep.
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Alaska hunters fret about polar bear ruling
http://www.aib.subdivisions.co.uk/ ?p=1119The U.S. decision to list polar bears as a threatened species has indigenous Alaskans like Aalak Nayakik worried that hunting the animals they rely on for food and warmth could be banned. Standing on the edge of the receding sea ice-shelf offshore from Barrow, some 350 miles north of the Arctic
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Fishing charters alaska halibut Activities in lake Forest Clear Creek
http://cuteplug.org/ forkeyyork/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ fishing-charters-alaska-halibut-a…It looked for a while like Washington anglers might get away unscathed this summer from the Pacific salmon disaster which will close seasons completely in Ordenadores airis and much of Oregon, but it turns out we’ll have to ante up as well. The largest prize ever handed out went to Don Hanks of Sparks, Nev.