Shell’s big gamble: Oil wrangling at the far reaches of the Arctic frontier

Shell’s big gamble: Oil wrangling at the far reaches of the Arctic frontier

Sep 11th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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By Steven Mufson September 11

Shell Oil Co.’s president Marvin Odum made the trip on Sept. 2 from Houston to this northern-most town in the United States, a spot whose traditional name, Ukpeagvik, means “place where snowy owls are hunted.”

Odum is here hunting, too, for oil offshore and political support from Alaska Natives living in Barrow, a ramshackle town of muddy streets, littered with all-terrain vehicles and guarded by snow fences on one side and on the other a four-foot-high earthen berm to protect against high winds and seas.

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