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but it can injure or even kill polar bears. It creates loud noises that can scare polar bear mothers away from their dens and cubs. Thumper trucks can run over undetected dens.

Caribou herds would also be put at risk. The herd migrates through the area where ConocoPhillips has proposed seismic activity, and surveys could separate caribou from their historic breeding grounds.

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