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Study: Alaska could be one of world's top ten oil producers

02-26-2011 • Terrence Aym

A new breakthrough study analyzing the oil reserves contained under Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) reveals that the state could be the eighth largest oil producer in the world. The amazing data meticulously compiled by the authors—the consulting firm Northern Economics and the University of Alaska-Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research—shows that aggressive drilling of Alaska's OCS could tap into more than 15 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and about 10 billion barrels of oil...

1 Comments in Response to Study: Alaska could be one of world's top ten oil producers

Comment by Lola Flores

Entered on: 2/27/2011 4:43:28 PM

Yep. I'm willing to be top dollar that Big Oil financed the "study" just like they financed all the other "studies" on the pseudo science behind global warming denial.

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