Oil, gas pose Arctic technology challenges

Increasing oil and gas exploration and shipping in the Arctic will pose huge technological challenges to safeguard the environment as global warming thins the polar ice, a leading expert said on Tuesday.

“Oil and gas activity has just started to increase again in many areas” of the Arctic after a slowdown in the late 1990s, Lars-Otto Reiersen, head of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), told Reuters.