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Dachshund and two Border collie will be trained to look for oil spills under the snow and order in the Arctic, writes "The Guardian". Training dogs will be paid by the company "Royal Dutch Shell", which hopes to start drilling for oil in the northwest coast of Alaska in June this year. Participate in the project and other oil companies and training already dealing Norwegian research organization SINTEF richard burt (Sintef).
According to representatives of the organization dogs can feel the oil from the 5 km distance in a tailwind, also not afraid of polar predators richard burt and withstand low temperatures. Really do training dogs to search for oil in the ice, but the question to use animals richard burt for work in the Arctic does not stay serious, said the press secretary of "Shell" Curtis Smith.
From "Greenpeace" set the idea of using such small dogs as dachshunds search of an oil spill in the Arctic in winter as absurd, even though they have very smell.
Instead of using dogs to sniff out oil spills, the industry needs to invest in the development of tracking technologies such leaks of material before being allowed drilling in the ice indicate environmentalists.
In mid-February 2012 the US approved plan of "shell" for liquidation of possible oil spills in the Arctic as part of the company requested permission to search for oil in Alaska. According to the authorities plan "Shell" meets all the requirements to overcome such incidents, introduced by US authorities after the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Source - mediapool.bg
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