Imperial sees challenges in warming ArcticGlobe/CP say Imperial sees challenges in warming Arctic
2007-10-09 05:56 ET - In the News
The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that climate change could make Canada's Arctic energy resources harder to exploit, a United States scientist will tell an international conference this week. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe reports that University of Alaska professor Hajo Eicken says, "With significant changes to sea ice cover, we're going to have to pay very close attention to how that's changing." Prof. Eicken is one of the presenters scheduled to speak on oil spills in ice-choked waters. The conference in Anchorage, AK., starts Wednesday. "With the price of oil and where people are looking for oil, it is very timely," said Stephen Potter of SL Ross Environmental Research. "There's talk of going back to the Canadian Beaufort Sea to drill." There is more than just talk. Last July, Imperial Oil and its sister company, ExxonMobil Canada, bid $585-million for work rights on the floor of the frigid Arctic sea off the coasts of Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Prof. Eicken says because of climate change drillers will have to be aware that the old certainties of shore-bound ice have changed. He says landfast ice is detaching from shore faster than it did before.
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