Oil company proposes Arctic drilling from artificial island
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) " America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won't be from a remote drilling platform.Federal regulators are taking comments on a draft environmental statement for the Liberty Project, a proposal by a subsidiary of Houston-based Hilcorp to create an artificial gravel island that would hold production wells, a processing facility and the start of an undersea pipeline carrying oil to shore and connections to [...]
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