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North Slope

noun

  1. the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.


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The company, which went public in 1991, helped analyze data used to explore Alaska’s North Slope for oil.

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The project would build an 800-mile pipeline to transport gas drilled from Alaska’s North Slope to southern Alaska and then to Asia, home to three of the world’s largest importers of liquefied natural gas, or LNG: China, Japan and South Korea.

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Her voice faltered, but she continued: “A million people wrote to the administration pleading not to approve a disastrous oil drilling project in Alaska, and we were ignored. … Will the administration stop approving new oil and gas projects and align with youth, science and front-line communities from the North Slope of Alaska to Louisiana?”

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"Some of these salmon are ending up on Alaska's North Slope too."

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The second of two bills proposed by Dunleavy as a way to capitalize on interest by companies with carbon emission reduction goals passed, allowing the state to establish a system and protocols for underground storage of carbon dioxide, with an eye toward using pore space in aging gas or oil fields, such as Cook Inlet or on the North Slope.

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