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Vast oil, natural gas reserves estimated in Arctic (AP)

Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives Greg Goode, of Indiana, right, talks about his visit to Alaska's North Slope and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska Thursday, July 17, 2008. Seven Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives visited Alaska's Arctic and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on a fact-finding tour this week focusing on how Alaska's potential oil and gas recourses can offer a solution to the national energy crisis. Gov. Sarah Palin, left, listens. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Some 90 billion barrels of oil and a third of the world's undiscovered natural gas lie beneath an area north of the Arctic Circle, government scientists estimate in the largest-ever survey of the energy resources there.


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