Arctic drilling invites disaster: Column
Arctic drilling invites disaster: Column
Nick Jans: EDT May 27, 2015
An oil spill in sea ice is permanent. And Shell is nowhere near prepared for summer drilling.
I stood on the shore of the Chukchi Sea, at the far northern rim of Alaska. On that late May evening, a maze of shifting ice spilled off to the horizon; a world of the same stretched beyond that,more than 1,000 miles to the North Pole. Out in that vast expanse, Inupiat whalers waited in traditional camps for their first bowhead whale of the season; polar bears roamed, hunting walrus and seals. Slanting in, the midnight sun cast mirages and colors that have no earthly name. I squinted into the distance and tried to imagine oil wells out there, too — dozens, and eventually hundreds, scattered across the face of this harsh but fragile ocean wilderness.
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
No comments:
Post a Comment