Word: permafrost
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...Three years ago. with U.S. consumption increasing and reserves decreasing, oilmen decided to take advantage of a state auction of North Slope oil leases. Companies like Sinclair, British Petroleum, Union Oil and Atlantic-Richfield spudded about 30 wells and came up with nothing worthwhile. Then, after drilling through the permafrost to 9,500 ft., a consortium of Atlantic-Richfield and Humble Oil last spring brought in a well named Prudhoe Bay State No. 1. When high-grade oil in sufficient flow was located seven miles away at a second well, Sag River State No. 1, oilmen knew that they...
...will be in keeping with the pace that the Prime Minister has set. While Canadians are enjoying the Trudeau panache, he is savoring the perquisites of his office. On a 9,780-mile swing through the Arctic last month, he acquired a sealskin parka, drove a motorcycle across the permafrost, and danced with an Eskimo go-go girl. During a recent visit to Montreal, he spent an evening clinking glasses at Man and His World, this year's version of Expo. On a jaunt to see Romeo and Juliet at Stratford, Ont., he was able to command the Prime...
Thawing the Permafrost. In his efforts to free Japan of the legacy of inaction caused by World War II's defeat, Sato has reoriented the nation's relations with both of Asia's Caucasian powers: Russia and the U.S. The Soviets still hold substantial territory in the formerly Japanese Kurils and the island of Sakhalin. Yet the two countries last year agreed to establish consulates and jointly develop (at a cost of $150 million) the natural gas reserves of Sakhalin. To thaw the permafrost in relations dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-06, Tokyo...
Before 1953, as far as the Canadian government was concerned, the dominion's 12,000 Eskimos ranked about with caribou for concern and polar bears for utility. Strewn across millions of square miles of permafrost, they were a depleted and dying culture, helplessly locked in old patterns, too weak to accommodate new. That year Canada's conscience underwrote a radical new experiment to save the Eskimos by making them self-sufficient. Edith Iglauer's book tells of the leap, "literally for their lives," into the modern world...
...conferees faced up to the fact that as the north grows in population and economic importance, some permafrost problems will become more severe. Sanitary Engineer Amos Alter, 47, chief engineer of the Alaska Department of Health, detailed some of the elaborate methods now being tried for heating and pumping sewage in his burgeoning cities. And in a far-out speculation of his own, he suggested that in the future arctic liquids and wastes could be purified and recycled in "some sort of closed-circuit arrangement" that would treat whole cities in the manner now planned for two-man space capsules...