Commentary Sierra Club Responds To Shell’s Abandonment Of Arctic Drilling by Press Release on September 28, 2015 Press Release Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2015. Late Sunday evening, Shell Oil announced that it was ending its oil exploration program in the Arctic Ocean, and would cease further exploratory activity off Alaska’s coast for the foreseeable future.