Libs Ban Oil drilling on N slope
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into places they don't belong , cutting off the paychecks for hard working
Alaskans .
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2033359620070721
Shell ordered to suspend Arctic offshore drilling
Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:41PM EDT
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court has ordered Royal
Dutch Shell Plc to suspend oil exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea
off the north coast of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by
environmental activists and Alaska native groups.
The ruling deals a serious blow to Shell's plan to drill up to four
exploration wells during the brief Arctic summer to test a $44 million bet
the company placed on the region in 2005. Oral arguments in the case are set
for August 14 in San Francisco.
"We will comply with the court order and continue to welcome discussions
with the North Slope," Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said in an email.
Federal officials said Shell's drilling permit runs through October, so it
is possible Shell could do some drilling if it gets a favorable ruling in
August.
Opponents of drilling in the Beaufort Sea argue that environmental impact
studies carried out by Shell and approved by the U.S. Department of the
Interior failed to take seriously the threat posed to bowhead whales and
other wildlife.
Native whalers also are concerned that hunting the whales, which they are
permitted to do by the International Whaling Commission, could become more
difficult and dangerous.
"The industry and the government have to slow down and listen to the
scientists and the concerns of the whalers," said North Slope Borough Mayor
Edward Itta in a statement. "We stand the chance of losing our whaling crews
and the traditional food that feeds our families."
The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service approved Shell's
drilling plans in February.
Shell had planned to drill four wells on the Sivulliq prospect this summer.
Oil had been discovered at Sivulliq in the 1980s but the field was abandoned
at the time due to the high cost of developing oil fields in the Beaufort
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Floyd L. Davidson
>More Pot smoking san fransicko Librats sticking their maggot infested hair
>into places they don't belong , cutting off the paychecks for hard working
>Alaskans .
It would help your credibility if you actually learned
to *read* the stuff you post.
>"The industry and the government have to slow down and listen to the
>scientists and the concerns of the whalers," said North Slope Borough Mayor
>Edward Itta in a statement. "We stand the chance of losing our whaling crews
>and the traditional food that feeds our families."
You can rest assured that Edward Itta is not a "Pot
smoking san fransicko Librats".
Edward does, however, trump *you* when it comes to being a
"hard working" Alaskan.
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Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) fl...@apaflo.com
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"Floyd L. Davidson" <fl...@apaflo.com> wrote in message
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> "T0K Cutoff" <Cut...@T0K.AK> wrote:
>>More Pot smoking san fransicko Librats sticking their maggot infested hair
>>into places they don't belong , cutting off the paychecks for hard working
>>Alaskans .
>
> It would help your credibility if you actually learned
> to *read* the stuff you post.
>
>>"The industry and the government have to slow down and listen to the
>>scientists and the concerns of the whalers," said North Slope Borough
>>Mayor
>>Edward Itta in a statement. "We stand the chance of losing our whaling
>>crews
>>and the traditional food that feeds our families."
>
> You can rest assured that Edward Itta is not a "Pot
> smoking san fransicko Librats".
Shell Oil Ordered To Stop Drilling Off Alaska
July 21, 2007 1:33 p.m. EST
Nicole King - AHN News Writer
Anchorage, AL (AHN) - Shell Oil has been ordered to stop drilling off the
north coast of Alaska. A federal appeals court has ordered to company to
stop drilling until a hearing in August.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the ruling. The company spent
more than $44 million for offshore leases in the Beufort Sea two years ago.
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