Shell Arctic Drilling

Dear Shell: Please Be Honest About Risks from Your Arctic Ocean Oil Drilling This Summer

Richard Steiner | Posted 05.21.2012

Richard Steiner

It seems important that Shell clarifies, on the public record, these issues before a serious problem develops with its offshore exploratory drilling this summer in the Arctic Ocean.

Environmental Groups Push Back Against Shell Arctic Permits

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.17.2012

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Environmental and Alaska Native groups on Wednesday appealed an air permit granted by the Environmental Protection Agency t...

Lucia Graves

Anti-Arctic Drilling Activists Swarm The White House

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.15.2012

WASHINGTON -- Because sometimes to get your point across you need to dress up as an Arctic Tern, scores of anti-drilling activists on Tuesday gathered...

Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan Approved

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.28.2012

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal offshore drilling regulators on Wednesday approved Shell Oil's spill response plan for exploratory drilling in the ...

Shell Wants to Sail With a Record That Is Totally Stale

Subhankar Banerjee | Posted 05.05.2012

Subhankar Banerjee

If you care about the arctic, and want to stop Shell from going there, first, stop hoping that Obama will do something. He won't.

Shell Wins Approval Of Arctic Spill Response Plan

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 04.18.2012

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shell Oil cleared one of the last remaining hurdles to Arctic offshore drilling Friday as the federal government said it ha...

EPA Board Rejects Appeal Of Shell Arctic permit

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 03.14.2012

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell's quest to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters has received a boost with the affirmation that its fe...

EPA Grants Permit, Shell Takes One Step Closer To Arctic Drilling

AP | By DAN JOLING | Posted 11.19.2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Shell Oil Co. on Monday took a step closer to tapping vast petroleum reserves off Alaska's Arctic coasts when the federal Environ...

Don't Allow Shell Oil to Destroy America's Arctic

Cindy Shogan | Posted 09.27.2011

Cindy Shogan

The Inupiat people of Alaska's North Slope stand to lose everything if Shell is allowed to drill in Arctic waters. For thousands of years, they have survived off the bounty of "their garden," which is home to polar bears, bowhead whales, ice seals, walrus and so much more.

A Battle for the Earth's Last Remaining Frontier

Philip Radford | Posted 07.10.2011

Philip Radford

Tomorrow Hillary Clinton will fly to picturesque Greenland to discuss how spill response equipment might work in one of the world's most beautiful environments: the Arctic. I can save her the trip. It won't.

Shell To Submit Arctic Offshore Drilling Plan

AP | By DAN JOLING | Posted 07.02.2011

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 ...

Shell Drops Arctic Drilling Plans This Year

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.25.2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Shell Alaska has dropped plans to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea this year and will concentrate on obtaining...

EPA Board Halts Shell's Arctic Drilling

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 05.25.2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Native and conservation groups have succeeded in challenging clean air permits granted to Shell Oil to drill explorat...

Alaska Sues Feds To Lift Arctic Drilling Suspension

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.25.2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says the state is suing to overturn the federal suspension of offshore drilling in Arctic Ocean wat...

Shell Arctic Drilling Plan Gets Court Approval

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.25.2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal appeals court Thursday removed a legal challenge standing in the way of Shell Oil's plans to drill wells off Alask...