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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 29 > Drilling debate moves offshore

Drilling debate moves offshore

With the oil industry targeting Arctic waters, energy needs are weighed against northern Alaska’s fragile life cycle

By Kim Murphy / The Bulletin
April 29, 2009

NUIQSUT, Alaska — The year the oil companies seriously began exploring the icy waters off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — where Nuiqsut whalers have hunted for as long as men have wandered on dark waters — the villagers lost two bowhead.

The big whales had....

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