Inside Shell’s Extreme Plan to Drill for Oil in the Arctic

Inside Shell’s Extreme Plan to Drill for Oil in the Arctic

Aug 5th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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by Paul Barrett and Benjamin Elgin: 5 August 2015:BLOOMBERG.COM

Protesters near the Polar Pioneer.: Photographer: Keri Coles/Greenpeace

Ann Pickard – Shell VP Arctic Drilling

In a windowless conference room in Anchorage, a dozen Royal Dutch Shell employees report on the highest-profile oil project in the multinational’s vast global portfolio. Warmed by mid-July temperatures, Arctic ice in the Chukchi Sea, northwest of the Alaskan mainland, is receding. Storms are easing; helicopter flights will soon resume. Underwater volcanoes—yes, volcanoes—are dormant. “That’s good news for us,” Ann Pickard, Shell’s top executive for the Arctic, whispers to a visitor.

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