Center for American Progress: Shell’s Retreat From Chukchi Sea Is 1 More Reason to Make Arctic Off Limits to Drilling

by Press Release on September 28, 2015

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Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2015. Royal Dutch Shell announced today that in light of disappointing discoveries after its second season of drilling an exploratory well in the Chukchi Sea off the North Slope of Alaska, it would be suspending all future operations in Arctic waters. Center for American Progress Director of Ocean Policy Michael Conathan issued the following statement in response: