Shell To Submit Arctic Offshore Drilling Plan

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Shell Oil will apply to drill up to five wells off Alaska's shore next year under an exploration plan to be submitted to federal authorities.

Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith says the company will seek permission to drill two wells in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north shore and three in the Chukchi Sea off the state's northwest shore in 2012.

They're part of plan to drill 10 wells – four in the Beaufort and six in the Chukchi – using two drilling ships in 2012 and 2013.

Smith says the company expects to submit the plan of exploration for the Beaufort on Wednesday and for the Chukchi soon after.

Comments

[HLL]

11:23 AM on 05/23/2011

There are alternatives to oil, we just need to embrace them ☮

"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to arctic foxes and caribou. It's the most important onshore denning habitat for America's vanishing polar bears. And, each year, millions of birds from all across the country make their way to this special place.

...The truth is that drilling in the Arctic will not lower gas prices."

~ Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Defenders of Wildlife
http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/habitat_conservation/federal_lands/national_wildlife_refuges/threats/arctic/index.php

Murphy's Law & Shell drilling in the Arctic Ocean
http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2010/09/18/murphys-law-and-shell-drilling-in-the-arctic-ocean/

Scientists Call for the Strongest Possible Protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/20268-scientists-call-for-the-strongest-possible-protections-for-the-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge.html


Help Save the Arctic Refuge
http://wilderness.org/content/happy-50th-birthday-arctic-refuge

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[shilow]

10:43 PM on 05/05/2011

We the so called little people cannot stop those with the power money and weapons . It will take a higher power than man. Revelation 11: 18 God will bring to ruin those ruining the earth.

[MichaelAKD]

02:16 PM on 05/05/2011

Shell, a multi-national corp. based out of Denmark, drilling for our oil? again and in fragile areas of our country, key word here is OUR. so to all those who proclaim "drill baby drill" our way to salvation, take a moment consider who we are letting in. just like the plan to mine for precious metals near devils tower, or drill for oil in the n. c. rockies where we live, all foreign companies. forget about the environment for a moment just the simple fact that there are so many ignorant people who think just because it is under our soil it will always come back our way no matter. wrong, wrong, wrong,...after all is said and done and no matter who drills for this oil or any oil for that matter, it all gets sold on the global market and only small percentage actually goes into our fuel tanks. the drill at all cost crowd needs to be schooled on how it all works. if this proposal goes through it will as does most of the oil from the gulf be headed towards the PROC or India based on logistics. saving our environment is a valid argument but i think that we really need to keep bringing up the processes and how little benefit if any when weighed against the negatives that all these new leases bring with. imho the ignorance around this is the biggest reason there is any debate.

[intolleft]

10:01 AM on 05/05/2011

What's the matter Shell, the 4 billion you got hosed out of in the Chukchi Sea not enough. Save your money until the administration with the vendetta on prosperity is gone.

[Deep Thinking Man]

10:42 PM on 05/04/2011

i wonder...ya reckon politicians and the oil barons ever heard the old axiom..."you don't chit in your own nest ???"...we should chit in their nest to let them know what it feels like when they chit in ours !!!!!!!

[KarlaElisa]

05:48 PM on 05/03/2011

unless we tear down industrial civilization, they will not stop. they will suck dry, cut clear and strip mine every last inch of this earth, no matter what the consequences.

are we really going to let them continue so we can give maybe one or two more generations the toxic lifestyle we've come to call 'normal living' ?

[dutchdragonfly]

01:11 PM on 05/03/2011

S*hell !! You have GOT to be KIDDING me!!!!!

[daretothink]

12:04 PM on 05/03/2011

here we go again...nothing learned from the past...INSANITY AND WANTON DISREGARD
FOR LIFE

[ducksawce]

11:40 AM on 05/03/2011

It's time to arm bears ....

[whosaidweshould]

10:11 AM on 05/03/2011

Please no! Don't do this. There will be dire consequences if they are allowed to do this. No, No, NO!

[HLL]

11:31 AM on 05/03/2011

F & F ~ Agree 100% ☮

[intolleft]

10:03 AM on 05/05/2011

Like what?

[FreeHat]

08:50 AM on 05/03/2011

Still with the polar bears? Give your audience some credit...geez

[intolleft]

10:14 AM on 05/05/2011

It's emotionally based.

[Honkytonk]

03:08 AM on 05/03/2011

eff you Shell!

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

04:21 AM on 05/03/2011

I second that emotion!

[Foodgrade]

11:12 PM on 05/02/2011

And we're all too busy celebrating Obama's false jingosim to do anything about it.

[FreeHat]

08:53 AM on 05/03/2011

'false jingoism', talk about something being up for interpretation.

[Foodgrade]

12:55 PM on 05/03/2011

Oh come on. It's a show. Obama is playing at "war guy" at the expense of many other people. I mean really. They buried the body at sea? It's all a election time production, nothing sincere about any of it.

[milty]

10:46 PM on 05/02/2011

EcoNuts Prevail!!! Permits denied since it has been shown that drilling will upset the mating habits of the "arctic offshore three-legged multi-eyed white tailed" gnat.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/02/will-obama-take-on-the-sand-dune-lizards/

[Daniel Hicks]

11:48 AM on 05/03/2011

Because the environment doesn't do anything for you. As you sit there, you know, breathing, digesting food, etc.

[DrMandible]

02:12 PM on 05/03/2011

Only an "EcoNut" wants to protect nature? Ya know, there was a time when it was just a good idea not to destroy the place you lived. Whatever happened to that?

[LeFlaneur]

10:37 PM on 05/02/2011

You've taken most of it. Must you have all of it? Must you take every last inch of Earth? For God's sake leave us something.

[intolleft]

09:59 AM on 05/05/2011

Taken most of what? As far as anyone knows, the supply of oil is unknown. As technology improves, more oil is found.

[LeFlaneur]

10:11 AM on 05/05/2011

Yeah. I wasn't talking about oil.