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PostSubject: Today's Anarcho-Capitalist Good News: Arctic Riches Lure Explorers    Today's Anarcho-Capitalist Good News: Arctic Riches Lure Explorers  Icon_minitimeThu Sep 01, 2011 11:15 pm

Exxon Mobil Corp.'s blockbuster $2.2 billion deal to drill for oil in the frigid waters north of Russia with OAO Rosneft is the latest sign of the energy industry's white-hot interest in exploring above the Arctic Circle.

The region encompasses about 12 million square miles—just 6% of the earth's land mass. But it is estimated to contain the oil and natural-gas equivalent of 412 billion barrels of oil, about 22% of the world's undiscovered oil and gas.

More recently, thinning ice has made it easier to work in some parts of the Arctic. And the persistently high price of oil, ...

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