Vast oil, natural gas reserves estimated in Arctic (AP)

Posted by Admin on July 24, 2008 at 6:07 am · Under SCIENCE

Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives Greg Goode, of Indiana, right, talks about his visit to Alaska's North Slope and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska Thursday, July 17, 2008. Seven Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives visited Alaska's Arctic and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on a fact-finding tour this week focusing on how Alaska's potential oil and gas recourses can offer a solution to the national energy crisis. Gov. Sarah Palin, left, listens. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Some 90 billion barrels of oil and a third of the world’s undiscovered natural gas lie beneath an area north of the Arctic Circle, government scientists estimate in the largest-ever survey of the energy resources there.


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