Commentary

Audubon President David Yarnold: Shell Oil Puts Arctic Wildlife at Risk


 Sanderlings in the Arctic
Photo Credit: USFWS
 

New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2012.  “If Shell’s ships can’t meet pollution standards, if its rescue barges are substandard for Arctic conditions, if it can’t control a drilling rig in a calm harbor and if it can’t come clean about its ability to play by the rules how can Shell possibly guarantee it can handle an oil spill in a notoriously hostile environment with massive waves and gale-force winds?” 

Audubon President and CEO David Yarnold spoke out on threats to the Arctic in an Op Ed that appeared in The Miami Herald, Kansas City Star and 20 other newspapers across the country.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/30/158655/shell-oil-puts-arctic-wildlife.html

Source: audubon.org


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