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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Shell Oil protesters train for flotilla

Apr 5th, 2015

KING 5 News 3:51 p.m. PDT April 4, 2015

Shell Oil protesters train for flotilla

Protestors planning to demonstrate when Shell Oil arrives in Elliott Bay started training Saturday morning in West Seattle.

They plan to have a flotilla of kayaks in the bay when Shell brings its Arctic drilling ship and equipment to Seattle in a few weeks.

The demonstrators are not happy that the Port of Seattle has leased out space for Shell to store off-shore Arctic drilling equipment at the port.

“We’d love to have a fleet of a couple hundred boats out here, but really big picture we need a fleet of the whole darn city of people realizing how we’re using up the carbon, how we’re putting it into the atmosphere,” said Peter Weston of the Backbone Campaign.

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Shell has major hurdles to clear before Chukchi drilling resumes

Apr 5th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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Yereth Rosen Alaska Dispatch News: April 4, 2015

Shell has major hurdles to clear before Chukchi drilling resumes

Now that the Department of the Interior has, for the second time, affirmed the record-breaking Chukchi Sea lease sale it held seven years ago, is it smooth sailing for Royal Dutch Shell and its plans to drill this year on leases purchased in the sale?

Not so fast.

Shell, which spent over $2 billion on Chukchi leases, has already spent about $6 billion in total on its Alaska program and has ambitions for transforming the remote and undeveloped waters off Northwest Alaska into a major oil-producing region, still must clear several hurdles before it is given permission to sink a drill bit into hydrocarbons lying beneath the seafloor.

Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Environment, Greenpeace, Oil, Oil Spill, Pollution, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, Shell Employee Safety, Shell Tax Avoidance, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Alaska Dispatch · Arctic Ocean · Beaufort Sea · Chukchi Sea · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell

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Why we all should care about the oil platform explosion that just happened in Mexico

Apr 5th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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This image, one of several that were made available to Greenpeace by anonymous workers, shows smoke and fire on the shallow-water Abkatun, a permanent platform in the Campeche Sound in the Gulf of Mexico.

Early Wednesday morning the Pemex oil platform, Abkatun Alphablew up off the West coast of the Yucatan peninsula. The explosion killed four people and sent 16 to the hospital. 300 people managed to escape the blazing wreckage. Three people are still missing.

The rig might as well have imploded, though, given the swift clamp-down on facts and sudden empty space devoid of independent information. What we know about the blaze is only what Pemex and the Mexican government would tell the world.

Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, BP, Environment, Gazprom, Greenpeace, Gulf of Mexico, Oil,Oil Spill, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Russia, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · BP · Litigation · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Russia ·Shell

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

As Quakes Rattle Oklahoma, Fingers Point to Oil and Gas Industry

Apr 4th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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Article by Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Michael Wines published by The New York Times:

As Quakes Rattle Oklahoma, Fingers Point to Oil and Gas Industry

A version of this article appears in print on April 4, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition

PRAGUE, Okla. — Yanked without warning from a deep sleep, Jennifer Lin Cooper, whose family has lived near here for more than a half-century, could think only that the clamor enveloping her house was coming from a helicopter landing on her roof. She was wrong.

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake — the first of three as strong or stronger over several days in November 2011 — had peeled the brick facade from the $117,000 home she bought the year before. Ms. Cooper, 36, could not get out until her father pried a stuck storm door off the front entrance. Repairs have so far cost $12,000 and forced her to take a second job, at night, to pay the bill.