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Oil Company Lease Stirs Revolt in Green Seattle
2015-03-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The environmental messaging never stops here, whether from a city-owned electric utility that gets nearly 98 percent of its power from sources untainted by carbon (and is not about to let residents forget it) or the fussy garbage collectors who can write tickets for the improper sorting of recyclables. So when a lease was signed allowing Royal Dutch Shell, the petrochemical giant, to bring its Arctic Ocean drilling rigs to the citys waterfront, the result was a kind of civic call to arms. A unanimous...
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