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OFFSHORE & ENERGY “Arctic conditions really aren’t ‘frontier’ conditions.

Canada and Norway have been operating in these conditions for years and we can take that knowledge and apply that to Northern Alaska – there shouldn’t need to be a whole lot of new regulations.” – Randall Luthi, President of the National Ocean

Industries Association that sometimes, scrap value is quite high, and some com- panies prefer to take the structure apart, bring it in and sell it. But, Luthi adds, “It’s a good program and we support it.

We hope more companies will decide to participate.”

Real Change: Real Effort, Real Proof

Randall Luthi insists that the past