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Bad idea: Shells gearing up to start drilling in the Arctic again

Despite major risks and the dropping price of oil, the company plans to resume oil exploration this summer

Neither risk of an oil spill nor global climate change nor the falling price of oil will keep Shell from exploiting the Arctic’s oil. After suspending its Arctic program for years following the grounding of one of its drilling rigs, the company announced Thursday that it plans to start drilling this summer in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.

Bad idea: Shell’s gearing up to start drilling in the Arctic again

-Salon 1/29/2015

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