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Ice T Trump: Hidden Motivator is Oil at Top of World

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For years, environmental advocates have been warning us about the importance of the melting Arctic ice cap and the oil riches that lie beneath — “black gold” that can pass through new shipping lanes opened up at the top of the world by climate change.

Now, with Donald Trump’s choice as Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, CEO of the larger-and-more-powerful-than-most countries ExxonMobil, we can see what happens when money-making concerns “trump” all else.

That the Arctic is so key to the planet’s future was underlined by another development last week: President Barack Obama is moving to checkmate the efforts to plunder that fragile goldmine.

On Friday, the Interior Department removed two areas of the Arctic from its final five-year road map for offshore oil and gas drilling.

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