Barrow, a town divided over Shell’s drilling
Krista Langlois | High Country News: July 19, 2015
BARROW — As Royal Dutch Shell’s massive drill rig, the Polar Pioneer, chugs its way up the Alaska coast, the 4,700 residents of America’s northernmost town was focused on a different event: the annual Nalukataq festival, in which the entire community shares in the bounty of a successful whaling season, with 16 crews landing whales. Nalukataq is a time for celebration, but the national controversy that’s unfolded in recent months surrounding Shell’s plans to drill exploratory wells this summer in the Arctic Ocean loomed over the festival.
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