Shells Arctic Drilling Plans Approved by Department of Interior

Shells Arctic Drilling Plans Approved by Department of Interior

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It seems like the battle to save the wild and remote Arctic seas from predatory oil and gas companies never ends. Despite court cases finding it had illegally sold oil and gas exploration leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska and despite its own environmental impact study depicting the dangers of drilling there, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has opened the door to selling offshore drilling leases in the Arctic seas again. Currently there are no gas or oil operations in the Arctic seas, and environmental groups would like to keep it that way.

Shell’s Arctic Drilling Plans Approved by Department of Interior

-EcoWatch 4/1/2015

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