Exploratory Hydrocarbon Drilling Impacts to Arctic Lake Ecosystems

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Thienpont, Joshua R., Kokelj, Steven V., Korosi, Jennifer B., Cheng, Elisa S., Desjardins, Cyndy, Kimpe, Linda E., Blais, Jules M., Pisaric, Michael FJ., Smol, John P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Canada; Mackenzie Delta; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3819393; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223170; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078875

Recent attention regarding the impacts of oil and gas development and exploitation has focused on the unintentional release of hydrocarbons into the environment, whilst the potential negative effects of other possible avenues of environmental contamination are less well documented. In the hydrocarbo...