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How You Can Help Prevent an Arctic Nightmare
2015-05-14 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: I had a terrible nightmare: President Mitt Romney approved Shell Oil`s drilling plans for the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. He did it even though his own Department of the Interior calculated that the odds of a large oil spill were 75 percent. He did it even though no proven method exists to respond to such a spill. He did it even though indigenous Alaskan culture has centered on traditional harvests of marine resources for thousands of years. He did it even though all known, extractable Arctic...
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UN Clmate Official Pans Idea of Arctic Drilling in Subtle Slap at Obama Admin
2015-05-14 14:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The United Nations top climate official took a subtle poke at the Obama administration on Wednesday over its decision to conditionally allow oil exploration off Alaskas coast, suggesting that the Arctics oil and gas should stay underground. Despite the tentative green light given to Shell Gulf of Mexico earlier this week, both the environment and Shells stockholders would be best served if such projects are shelved, said Christiana Figueres, the executive director of the U.N. Framework Convention...
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Here's why Obama is approving Arctic drilling again
2015-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For a leader who has made fighting climate change a priority, President Barack Obama's decision to approve Royal Dutch Shell's return to oil and gas exploration off Alaska was seen by many environmentalists as a contradiction. On Tuesday, his administration upheld a 2008 Arctic lease sale, clearing an important hurdle for Shell. The Interior Department will now consider the company's drilling plan, which could take 30 days. But Shell, which has already spent about $6 billion exploring the Arctic,...
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Obama's Arctic drilling strategy: It's complicated
2015-05-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: It was just in January when environmentalists were praising President Obama for setting aside nearly 10 million acres in the Arctic Ocean for protection from oil and gas development. Weeks before that, his administration announced he would not allow drilling in Alaska`s Bristol Bay, home to one of the world`s richest runs of wild salmon. Now, after his administration on Monday announced conditional approval for Shell Alaska to drill exploratory wells in parts of the Arctic, critics were quick...
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Shells Record Adds to the Anger of Those Opposing Arctic Drilling
2015-05-13 03:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When the Obama administration announced on Monday that it would let Shell drill for oil off the Alaskan coast this year if it met certain conditions, environmentalists were outraged not just by the administrations decision to allow drilling, but by its decision to give Shell, in particular, the green light. They said that the companys track record in the Arctic should rule out another chance for it. Shell tried to drill in the Arctic in 2012, and the companys multibillion-dollar drilling...
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