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As temperatures rise, oil industry adapts to sustain Alaska ice-road seasons

By Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News December 12, 2016
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Alaska’s North Slope oil industry is battling back as Earth has warmed, adopting new techniques to allow operators to start building ice roads as early as they did in the cooler 1970s to move the drilling rigs and people needed for winter oil exploration.

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