According to preliminary reports, unusually warm temperatures on the North Slope in the days leading up to the accident appear to have played a role in what happened.
alaskalandmine.com/landmines/do...

If you look at the photos, Doyon and Conoco are extremely lucky that the rig tipped in the direction it did, away from the staging pad and what appears to be worker housing.
dec.alaska.gov/spar/ppr/spi...

I wrote about this very problem--how warming temps and thawing permafrost may impact oil/gas infrastructure--for @grist.org four years ago. @typeinvestigations.org
grist.org/energy/perma...

"Several people with North Slope experience have said the rig likely tipped due to being moved in warm 30 degree weather, which would have caused the road to be softer. Once it went off the shoulder on the soft ground, tipping over was probably inevitable."

alaskalandmine.com/landmines/do....

He has also argued--in the pages of the WSJ--that the United States should reclaim Wrangel Island from the Russians.

www.wsj.com/articles/rus...

Dans has been a big booster of Trump's plans to acquire Greenland, has frequently appeared on Steve Bannon's podcast, and was involved in arranging both Don Jr.'s trip to Nuuk in Jan 2025 and the Vance's disastrous trip to Greenland later that same yr.
www.ft.com/content/b2aa...

In 2023 I interviewed several of the children who were at the hunting camp with their parents when the B-52 bomber crashed.

Reporting for @inthesetimes.com and @typeinvestigations.org

inthesetimes.com/article/cold...

It would take decades for the full story to come to light, along with revelations that the U.S. had built a secret missile launch facility under the ice sheet (Camp Century), about 150 miles east of the military base. All of this activity was done without the knowledge of the Greenlandic people. 3/

Local hunters at a nearby camp were dispatched to help with search, rescue, and cleanup but were not informed of the risk they were taking. It was the middle of January. Bitterly cold. No daylight.

Years later, nearly all of these men died of cancer. 2/

inthesetimes.com/article/cold...

We make fun of Danish dogsled teams operating in Greenland--entirely appropriate given the terrain--and can't even feed our own troops in Alaska.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

We make fun of Danish dogsled teams operating in Greenland--entirely appropriate given the terrain--and can't even feed our own troops in Alaska.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...