are they drilling for oil in alaska?
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Trump administration opens huge reserve in Alaska to drilling. The Trump administration on Thursday said it would seek to open up the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration, picking the most aggressive development option for an area long closed to drilling.
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Alaska does not limit or tax alcoholic beverages brought into this state for personal use and not for resale. ... Over 75 Alaska communities have, by local option, banned the importation or possession of alcoholic beverages. It may be a felony crime to ship alcoholic beverages to those communities.
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Alaskan tectonics are dominated by the Pacific-North American plates. The megathrust boundary between the plates results in both the 4,000-km-long Aleutian Trench and in the arc of active volcanoes that lie subparallel to the trench.
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['Anchorage, AK. 9 salaries reported. $87,937. per year.', 'Fort Wainwright, AK. 6 salaries reported. $85,343. per year.', 'Unalaska, AK. 7 salaries reported. $72,276. per year.', 'Homer, AK. 7 salaries reported. $68,213. per year.', 'North Pole, AK. 7 salaries reported. $65,415. per year.']
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You do need to acquire the land you choose to build on, but in most of Alaska away from the cities there are very few building regulations. ... Living in remote Alaska can be dangerous but also rewarding. In most remote areas you will need to make your own electricity, get your own fresh water, and find your own food.
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International oil companies will now be able to export gas explored from Bangladesh's offshore blocks in the Bay. The government has reintroduced the provision for export of gas by the drilling companies in the Offshore Model PSC 2019.
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There are no nuclear missiles (ICBMs) in Alaska, nor are there (supposedly) any nukes pointed at Russia. ... There are no nuclear missiles (ICBMs) in Alaska, nor are there (supposedly) any nukes pointed at Russia. First, having land based "ICBMs" in Alaska would be silly.
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As the road to WrestleMania 33 continued, the RAW went to Anchorage, Alaska last night. The show saw two championships defended on the night, as well as an impromptu tag team main event.
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Since their show, Alaskan Bush People, premiered in 2014, the Brown family has been advertised by the Discovery Channel as "a family of 9 living deep in the Alaskan Bush. They are unlike any other family in America and have lived wild in the forests of Alaska for decades."
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Sorry, you won't see an igloo in Anchorage or anywhere in Alaska. Igloos were used by the Inuit people of Canada's Central Arctic and Greenland. If finding out how Alaska Natives lived for centuries is what you're interested in, Anchorage has cultural centers and museums with examples of traditional housing.
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There are currently five species of bats known to live in Alaska. Four of those -- the silver-haired bat, Keen's long-eared bat, the California bat and the long-legged myotis -- are native only to Southeast.
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Drilling mud, also called drilling fluid, in petroleum engineering, a heavy, viscous fluid mixture that is used in oil and gas drilling operations to carry rock cuttings to the surface and also to lubricate and cool the drill bit.
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It is commonly called the Alaska pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline, or Alyeska pipeline, (or the pipeline as referred to in Alaska), but those terms technically apply only to the 800 miles (1,287 km) of the pipeline with the diameter of 48 inches (1.22 m) that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska.
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This portion of Puget Sound is used as a sport and commercial fishery, as well as for subsistence fishing by the Suquamish Tribe. The site was listed on the Superfund National Priorities List in May ...
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May 20, 2020 (Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy today announced the Permanent Fund Dividend Division will begin distribution of the 2020 Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) to eligible Alaskans on July 1, 2020.
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Locating the oil field Other instruments such as gravimeters and magnetometers are also used in the search for petroleum. Extracting crude oil normally starts with drilling wells into an underground reservoir. When an oil well has been tapped, a geologist (known on the rig as the "mudlogger") will note its presence.
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Most commonly, oil platforms engage in activities on the continental shelf, though they can also be used in lakes, inshore waters, and inland seas. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, consist of an artificial island, or float.