Shell: An embarrassing start to Arctic drilling
Shell Oil has spent $4.5 billion and invested a huge chunk of industry prestige in exploratory drilling set to begin later this month in Arctic waters of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off northern...
View ArticleHalf a loaf goes for habitat in Alaska’s Arctic
The Obama administration, in a far reaching decision, on Monday announced that it is dividing a vast chunk of Alaska’s Arctic almost evenly between oil and coal development and protection of habitat...
View ArticleShell: A shell game on drilling Arctic waters
Shell Oil is asking the federal government to prolong the season for its exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea by at least two weeks, and to start work before a spill containment barge arrives...
View ArticleShell gets green light to begin Arctic drilling
Shell Oil has been given the green light to begin what U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar described as “preparation activities” for its controversial exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea off the...
View ArticleShell begins long-delayed Arctic drilling
Shell Oil has begun its long-awaited, long-delayed exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea off northwest Alaska, a project in which the oil giant has already invested $4.5 billion. Shell posted a...
View ArticleShell suspends Arctic drilling: Now it’s nature!
Shell Oil has suspended its exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea off northwest Alaska just a day after the long-awaited, long-delayed project on which the oil giant has spent $4.5 billion. The...
View ArticleLevi Johnston a papa again
He had a moment in the spotlight as the unwed soon-to-be teenage father at the 2008 Republican National Convention. He published an autobiography at age 20. And now, Levi Johnston is a father once...
View ArticleShell won’t drill Arctic waters for oil this year
The Shell Oil Co. has abandoned plans to drill for oil this summer in Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, with its long-delayed oil spill containment vessel damaged and still in far off...
View ArticleArctic summer icepack shrinks to record low
The 2012 summer melt of Arctic sea ice has halted, but the ice pack shrank to record low levels this year and covers only half the area that it did as recently as 30 years ago, scientists announced on...
View ArticleAlaska to Denali wolves: Tough luck, you die
The Alaska Board of Game will not restore a no-hunting, no-trapping “buffer” on land just outside Denali National Park, despite the killing of a breeding female wolf and dissolving of a wolf pack...
View ArticleAl Gore: ‘The Dirty Weather Report’
Former Vice President Al Gore has narrated an Oscar-winning documentary and shared a Nobel Peace Prize for his work to alert the world about global warming. Now Gore is about to become a weatherman....
View ArticleObama, Romney “weatherproofed” until Hurricane Sandy: McKibben
The 2012 presidential candidate has been “weatherproofed”: Climate change rarely came up — with not one question in the three Obama-Romney debates — despite July being the hottest month on record,...
View ArticleArctic “breaks records” for low snow, ice: NOAA report
The Arctic polar regions of North America, Europe and Asia experienced record low snow cover and sea ice during 2012 with record high permafrost temperatures in northern Alaska, according to an annual...
View ArticleLisa Jackson leaves;EPA boss stood up to industry
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency boss Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration’s clean air champion, will leave her post at the beginning of President Obama’s second term, creating another Cabinet...
View ArticleFeds take “expedited” look at Shell’s Arctic mishaps
The U.S. Department of the Interior is launching an “expedited, high-level assessment” of off shore oil drilling efforts in Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, with an apparent special focus on the...
View ArticleEx-Sec. Andrus to REI’s Sally Jewell: Think big!!!
The former interior secretary who masterminded preservation of 103 million acres in Alaska has a message for REI CEO Sally Jewell, just nominated to become President Obama’s new interior secretary:...
View ArticleAlaska poll: Sen. Begich popular, Palin unpopular
Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat in Republican-leaning Alaska, is sure to be targeted by Republicans in 2014, his seat a “must” pickup if the GOP hopes to retake control of Congress’ upper chamber. But...
View ArticleShell’s Arctic ships head to Asia for repairs
The future of Shell Oil’s $4.5 billion investment in drilling for oil in Arctic waters has been thrown into question with news that both of Shell’s exploratory ships, one of which ran aground on New...
View ArticleBig caribou herds, Big Oil to divide big chunk of Alaska
An “all of the above” Obama administration decision will divide an Indiana-sized chunk of Arctic Alaska almost evenly between drilling opportunities for Big Oil and conservation of caribou herds,...
View ArticleShell won’t drill in Arctic waters this year
Its ships plagued by mishaps and acts of nature, from Puget Sound to Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, the Shell Oil Co. announced on Wednesday that it will not try to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters this...
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