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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
BPing the Arctic, Again - Fast Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling
BPing the Arctic, Again - Fast Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling
Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Story Tellers: "One of the riskiest and most destructive extreme energy oil exploration projects on the planet is moving toward implementation without scientific understanding or technical preparedness - Shell's oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean of Alaska. On August 4, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) conditionally approved Shell's plan to drill up to four exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea of Arctic Alaska starting July 2012."
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