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U.S. Army new jobs: quell social unrest from climate change, help get arctic oil

Posted on June 1, 2021 by

Preface. Of all the branches of government, the military is the most on top of climate change, peak oil, pandemics, power grid failure, and other disasters. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising, it’s their job to defend the U.S. against … Continue reading →

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Getting Arctic oil and natural gas will take decades or more

Posted on February 25, 2020 by

Preface. Only one exploratory well can be drilled in the short arctic summers, and many more need to be drilled to even find and then explore the size of a potential oil field to see if it is worth extracting.  … Continue reading →

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Professor Tad Patzek on Oil in the Arctic

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

[Shell spent 10 years and $7 billion before withdrawing from exploring the arctic because the oil and gas reserves they found were too meager.  The company needed “a multi-billion barrel discovery” to “justify going ahead,” Shell chief executive Ben van … Continue reading →

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