The Obama administration’s draft of the 2012-2017 program for oil and gas drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) includes potential drilling in America’s pristine and fragile Arctic Ocean. The draft calls for a lease sale in 2015 in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea, and a lease sale in 2016 in the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea. This [...]
The Arctic Ocean occupies a roughly circular basin and covers an area of about 14,056,000 km2 (5,427,000 sq mi), almost the size of Russia. The coastline is 45,390 km (28,200 mi) long. Much of the Arctic Ocean is covered by an ice “cap” which varies in extent and thickness seasonally. Endangered marine species in the [...]
Public Comments Needed on Shell Oil’s Proposed Drilling Operations in the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea Shell Seeks Permits from the EPA to emit toxic pollution from exploratory drilling activities in the Arctic Ocean Public Hearing in Barrow on August 4, 2011. Written comments due August 5, 2011. Shell has planned oil and gas exploration activities [...]
YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED – ATTEND A PUBLIC HEARING The Federal Government is taking comments on whether the area in the Chukchi Sea currently being leased to Shell Oil and other oil companies should stand. The initial environmental review of the Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 193 was done hastily and the government is being forced [...]
