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Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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Alaska Statehood Act
The Alaska Statehood Act was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 7, 1958, allowing Alaska to become the 49th U.S. state on January 3, 1959.
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Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
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Arctic Challenger
Arctic Challenger is a barge which has been converted by Superior Energy Services for use in the Arctic drilling operations of Shell Oil Company.
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Arctic policy of the United States
The Arctic policy of the United States refers to the foreign policy of the United States in regard to the Arctic region.
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Arctic Refuge drilling controversy
The question of whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been an ongoing political controversy in the United States since 1977.
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Ariake, Kagoshima
was a town located in Soo District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Barrow, Alaska
Barrow, also known by its native name Utqiagvik, is the largest city and the borough seat of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska and is located north of the Arctic Circle.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Beaufort Sea
The Beaufort Sea (Mer de Beaufort) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, west of Canada's Arctic islands.
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Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham is the largest city in and the county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington.
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Blowout (well drilling)
A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed.
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Blowout preventer
A blowout preventer (BOP) is a large, specialized valve or similar mechanical device, used to seal, control and monitor oil and gas wells to prevent blowouts, the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from a well.
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Bob Herron
Bob Herron (born March 9, 1951) is a Democratic former member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 38th District from 2009 until 2017.
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Bowhead whale
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of the family Balaenidae, in suborder Mysticeti, and genus Balaena, which once included the right whale.
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Chris Hayes
Christopher Loffredo Hayes (born February 28, 1979) is an American political commentator, journalist, and author.
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Chukchi Sea
Chukchi Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill/leak, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on 20 April 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Diesel generator
A diesel generator is the combination of a diesel engine with an electric generator (often an alternator) to generate electrical energy.
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DNV GL
DNV GL is an international accredited registrar and classification society headquartered in Høvik, Norway.
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Drillship
A drillship is a merchant vessel designed for use in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or for scientific drilling purposes.
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Dutch Harbor
Dutch Harbor is a harbor on Amaknak Island in Unalaska, Alaska.
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Duwamish people
The Duwamish (Dxʷdəwʔabš) are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe in western Washington, and the indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle, where they have been living since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8000 BCE, 10,000 years ago).
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Ed Murray (Washington politician)
Edward Bernard Patrick Murray (born May 2, 1955) is an American politician from the state of Washington who most recently served as the 53rd mayor of Seattle from 2014 to 2017.
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Electric motor
An electric motor is an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.
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Elementary school (United States)
An elementary school is the main point of delivery of primary education in the United States, for children between the ages of 4–11 and coming between pre-kindergarten and secondary education.
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Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a part of the Central Basin region of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington that extends southeastward between West Point in the north and Alki Point in the south.
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Energy Information Administration
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
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Environmentalism
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.
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Everett, Washington
Everett is the county seat of and the largest city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.
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Foss Maritime
Foss Maritime (formerly Foss Launch and Tug Company) is an American shipping company.
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Fremont Solstice Parade
The Fremont Solstice Parade is an annual event produced in June by the Fremont Arts Council (FAC), a non-profit organization based in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA, that supports the arts and artists in and around the city.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.
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HighBeam Research
HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.
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Hitachi Zosen Corporation
is a major Japanese industrial and engineering corporation.
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Hydraulic fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing (also fracking, fraccing, frac'ing, hydrofracturing or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid.
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Hydrocarbon exploration
Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for hydrocarbon deposits beneath the Earth's surface, such as oil and natural gas.
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Iñupiat
The Iñupiat (or Inupiaq) are a native Alaskan people, whose traditional territory spans Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the Canada–United States border.
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Indiegogo
Indiegogo is an international crowdfunding website founded in 2008 by Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin, and Eric Schell.
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Kayak
A kayak is a small, narrow watercraft which is propelled by means of a double-bladed paddle.
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Kenmore, Washington
Kenmore (sometimes referred to as Kenmore by the Lake) is a city in King County, Washington, United States, along the northernmost shores of Lake Washington.
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Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899.
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Kulluk
Kulluk was an ice-strengthened drill barge that was used for oil exploration in the Arctic waters.
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KUOW-FM
KUOW-FM 94.9 is a National Public Radio member station in Seattle, Washington.
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Labour movement
The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings, the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English), also called trade unionism or labor unionism on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.
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Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane C2H6) that has been converted to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.
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Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ), is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line.
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Mike O'Brien (Seattle politician)
Mike O'Brien (born March 2, 1968) is a member of the Seattle City Council representing District 6 in northwest Seattle.
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MSNBC
MSNBC is an American news cable and satellite television network that provides news coverage and political commentary from NBC News on current events.
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News media
The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.
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Noble Corporation
Noble Corporation plc is an offshore drilling contractor organized in London, United Kingdom.
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North Dakota
North Dakota is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States.
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Oceana (non-profit group)
Oceana is the largest international ocean conservation and advocacy organization.
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Offshore drilling
Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed.
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Petroleum exploration in the Arctic
The exploration of the Arctic for petroleum is considered to be extremely technically challenging.
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Petroleum industry
The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.
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Port
A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.
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Port Angeles, Washington
Port Angeles is a city in and the county seat of Clallam County, Washington, United States.
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Port authority
In Canada and the United States, port authority (less commonly a port district) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure.
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Port of Seattle
The Port of Seattle is a government agency overseeing Seattle's seaport and airport.
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Presidency of Barack Obama
The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as 44th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017.
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Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Prudhoe Bay or Sagavanirktok is a census-designated place (CDP) located in North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Puget Sound mosquito fleet
The Puget Sound mosquito fleet was a large number of private transportation companies running smaller passenger and freight boats on Puget Sound and nearby waterways and rivers.
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Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.
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Save the Arctic
Save the Arctic is a Greenpeace campaign to protect the Arctic, principally by preventing oil drilling and unsustainable industrial fishing in the area completely, surrounded by an Arctic-Environmental economics-Zone.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.
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Seattle City Council
The Seattle City Council is the legislative body of the city of Seattle, Washington.
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Semi-submersible
Semi-submersible may refer to a self-propelled vessel, such as.
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Ship registration
Ship registration is the process by which a ship is documented and given the nationality of the country to which the ship has been documented.
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Social media
Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
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Solar power
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar power, or a combination.
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Sonat
Sonat, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, was a large Fortune 500 American energy holding company.
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State legislature (United States)
A state legislature in the United States is the legislative body of any of the 50 U.S. states.
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.
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Territory of Alaska
The Territory of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 24, 1912, until January 3, 1959, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Alaska.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.
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The Buffalo News
The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located at 1 News Plaza in Downtown Buffalo, New York.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.
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The Herald (Everett)
The Daily Herald is a newspaper based in Everett, Washington.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Transocean
Transocean Ltd. is one of the world's largest offshore drilling contractors and is based in Vernier, Switzerland.
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.
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United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States.
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United States energy independence
U.S. energy independence relates to the goal of reducing the United States imports of petroleum and other foreign sources of energy.
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Vashon, Washington
Vashon is a census-designated place (CDP) in King County, Washington, United States.
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Walrus
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for scientific research and their usable products like meat, oil and blubber.
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Wind power
Wind power is the use of air flow through wind turbines to mechanically power generators for electricity.
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Yukon
Yukon (also commonly called the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three federal territories (the other two are the Northwest Territories and Nunavut).
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Zero-sum game
In game theory and economic theory, a zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant's gain or loss of utility is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the utility of the other participants.
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1999 Seattle WTO protests
1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle or the Battle in Seattle, were a series of protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, when members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999.
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References
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