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A group of engineers from Britain plan on taking a journey to a lake that is beneath the ice of Antarctica. The lake is located almost two miles beneath the ice.
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Halifax -
Canada's federal and Nova Scotia governments have extended the moratorium on oil and gas exploration and drilling on Georges Bank to December 31, 2015. They say the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had little to do with their decision.
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As the news breaks that Shell has been given the go ahead to drill in the Beaufort Sea, albeit with restrictions, a study has found how much effect global warming is having on the other side of the Arctic in Baffin Island.
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An international science team drills for sediment and meteorite breccia cores more than 3 million years old, from a meteorite crater, Lake El'gygytgyn, north of the Arctic Circle.
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The Outer Continental Shelf Moratorium, otherwise known as the offshore drilling ban, expired today. The moratorium was first enacted in 1982 and has been extended yearly since.
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The Democrats have decided to let the quater of a century ban of offshore drilling expire. The action will open up the Pacific and Atlantic coasts for oil exploration and drilling.
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Tuesday night the House of Representatives approved the extensive Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act to relax the federal ban on offshore drilling and to expand renewable energy.
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For years, the U.S. has had a noticeable lack of off shore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, an area where vast stores of crude are both known and believed to be located. What is the United States to do now, though, if the Gulf is being pumped by others?
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A two-year old mud volcano, which is still spewing huge volumes of mud, has displaced more than 30,000 people. It caused millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the drilling of a gas exploration well.
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WASHINGTON (voa) - The U.S. Senate has rejected a centerpiece of President Bush's energy policy that would have allowed oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge.
Senate Republicans Thursday fell short of the 60 votes needed to break a Democratic f...
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Cuba is to begin exploratory drilling in search of oil - this weekend a rig will begin drilling for oil just 100 kilometres from Florida.
Disaster management forces in the Indian capital, Delhi, are to hold a massive drill to assess preparedness in the event of a big earthquake.
Turkey begins drilling for oil and gas onshore in northern Cyprus despite protests from the Republic of Cyprus that the action is illegal.
 An oil and gas industry group is scaling back its drilling activity forecast for 2012, in part because there aren't enough workers who have the know-how necessary to drill big,
complicated wells.
Oil company Chevron will drill a third well at the Orphan Basin off the east coast of Newfoundland, despite its lack of success there so far.
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