The second investigation is focused on ICE Clear Europe, a division of the Atlanta based Intercontinental Exchange.
More recently, it has gained prominence amid expectations that melting ice will clear the way for more resource development and free up trade routes.
Mr King also said parking attendants and other contractors could be used to clear ice from footpaths, railway platforms and shopping centres.
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More than 100 Derbyshire schools have shut and Derbyshire County Council said gritters had been out all night to keep the main roads clear of ice.
Even in 2007, when the previous record for melting was set, and satellite pictures showed the passage to be entirely clear of ice, there was only a short period of open water.
Average monthly Arctic sea ice extent data shows a clear deceasing trend since 1979.
So unless there's some way of massaging the figures as well, steer clear of the ice cream gadgets and health machines.
In the short drilling season between July and October, Shell managed only to begin drilling one two wells, in the Berger and Sivulliq prospects, before having to pull up and clear out before ice set in.
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Teams of gritting crews will continue to treat main routes throughout Gloucestershire overnight in a bid to to keep them clear of snow and ice.
Authorities still were reporting snow drifts of up to 10 feet high in southeast Colorado, and Texas officials warned drivers to stay off the road in the Panhandle so crews would have a clear path to remove ice and snow.
Some games had already been called off on Friday - while Wycombe appealed to fans to help staff grit the car park and roads leading to the ground, and clear them of snow and ice.
Major routes are said to be clear, but there could be ice on minor roads which have not been gritted and on the hard shoulders of motorways.
Nominally the Little Ice Age ended around 1850, but the gradual retreat of the ice took a century and a half to clear the pass, until its rediscovery early in the 21st century.
Forecasters expect the snowfalls to clear by midnight on Monday, but ice could cause further problems on roads with temperatures expected to drop to -3C.
New York also got back on the ice at its suburban practice facility, and it was clear the sting of Tuesday night's disheartening defeat lingered.
What is clear is that the spacecraft has not found pure ice.
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After Adelson came out of the Army, he and his brother Lenny packaged toiletries to be distributed by hotels and started a business called De-Ice-It, which sold a chemical spray to help clear frozen windshields.
Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.
In Providence, where the drifts were 5 feet high and telephone lines encrusted with ice and snow drooped under the weight, Jason Harrison labored for nearly three hours to clear his blocked driveway and front walk and still had more work to do.
The latest data is still being processed but one of the institute's sea ice specialists, Dr Sebastian Gerland, said that though conditions vary year by year a pattern is clear.
Its characteristic features are the landforms shaped by the Ice Age: glacial ridges, pine and lichen-clad heaths, kettle holes and small ponds filled with crystal clear water.
The result is ice-as-poetry, a visual panorama that is greater than the sum of its frozen molecules, making clear that glaciers deserve our reverence, and are certainly not just an obstacle to be removed so that oil companies can drill for more oil.
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