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A Natural Gas Project Off Alaska’s Coast May Be a Russian Ploy for Intel on the Arctic

By Heather Vogell, ProPublica · November 10, 2026

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To an outsider, the research boats bobbing in the frigid and stormy Beaufort Sea off Alaska would seem little cause for alarm. Oil and gas companies have regularly explored the area for decades. For this project, businessmen from the United Arab Emirates were touting a plan to tap the vast natural gas reserves that…

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