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Colin Farrell to make a splash in The North Water

RTE 19 Feb 2019

... is set to play "a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor....

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Colin Farrell to play ‘brutish killer’ in BBC thriller The North Water

Belfast Telegraph 19 Feb 2019

CONFIRMED ... The book, set in the late 1850s, sees former army surgeon Patrick Sumner join a whaling expedition to the Arctic when he signs up as the ship’s doctor and encounters Drax on board. Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with the murderous psychopath, and he then has to struggle for survival in the harsh Arctic wasteland ... ....

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Colin Farrell to play brutish child killer Henry Drax in four-part BBC drama The North Water... 21-years after making his TV debut in Ballykissangel

This is Money 19 Feb 2019

... army surgeon Patrick Sumner join a whaling expedition to the Arctic when he signs up as the ship’s doctor and encounters Drax on board....

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Transitioning away from heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping

Public Technologies 18 Feb 2019

As Arctic shipping increases, pressure is mounting to protect the environment from fuels that are harmful when burned and spilled, including heavy fuel oil (HFO) ... This paper presents five Arctic shipping case studies, focusing on ships that can use HFO or fuels that comply with the 2020 0.5% fuel sulfur (S) limit....

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They found the polar bear. But where’s the rest of the Stillwater lumberman’s wild collection?

Pioneer Press 17 Feb 2019

8, 2019 ... of ... … This is exciting because it’s the first piece that we know of from that museum.” A 1904 stereograph showing “Esquimaux fighting polar bear in the Arctic regions exhibit at World’s Fair, St ... Louis in 1904, saw the “Esquimaux fighting polar bear in the Arctic regions exhibit,” bought it and had it shipped to Stillwater ... ....

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Janet Christie’s Mum’s the Word

Scotsman 16 Feb 2019

Turning down the heat on smotherlove. Over-mothering. I've just been accused of it by Team Children ... I don't mind, I know you'll come – eventually,” said Youngest calmly as I apologised) ... “You do too much. And it's not good for us.”. Eldest agrees ... “MY grandad was on a whaling ship in the Arctic when he was barely a teenager and the other was down a mine....

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Arctic opens up as Noway green-lights copper mine

The National 14 Feb 2019

Norway's decision on the copper mine has been viewed as a litmus test for the Arctic, where climate change and technology are enabling mineral and energy extraction, shipping and tourism, but threatening traditional ways of life ... company that designed the ships, said at the time....

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Arctic opens up as Norway green-lights copper mine

The National 14 Feb 2019

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Norway gives go-ahead to disputed Arctic copper mine

Yahoo Daily News 14 Feb 2019

Norway's decision on the copper mine has been viewed as a litmus test for the Arctic, where climate change and technology are enabling mineral and energy extraction, shipping and tourism, but threatening traditional ways of life ... Herders around the Arctic in other Nordic nations, ......

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Court allows Norway to punish EU fishermen who catch snow crabs at Svalbard

Xinhua 14 Feb 2019

14 (Xinhua) -- The Supreme Court of Norway decided that the Nordic country can punish fishermen from the European Union (EU) who catch snow crabs from Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, public broadcaster NRK reported Thursday. Therefore, Latvian shipping company SIA North Star Ltd....

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Abide by the claw: Norway's Arctic snow crab ruling boosts claim to oil

Yahoo Daily News 14 Feb 2019

OSLO (Reuters) - A court delivered a painful nip to European Union fishermen on Thursday by tightening Norway's grip on snow crab catches in the Arctic, a ruling that may also let Oslo claw more control of oil and gas from other nations ... gas resources beneath the Arctic seabed....

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Cashing In on a Warming Arctic

The Atlantic 12 Feb 2019

Cargo shipping, cruising, mining, oil drilling, fishing—all of these industrial activities could expand to the Arctic, one of the last remaining wild places, and with potentially devastating consequences ... Between 2005 and 2015, the number of ships going through the Canadian Arctic alone more than tripled ....

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A VETERAN’S STORY: From Russia, with thanks

The Citizens 10 Feb 2019

They were called Liberty Ships, a class of low-cost cargo ships mass-produced on an unprecedented scale during WWII. By the end of the war, America had built 2,710 Liberty Ships, the largest number of sea-going vessels ever produced via a single design ... The average Liberty Ship took 42 days to build; one, the SS Robert E....