NRDC: Interior’s Approval of Shell’s Arctic Drilling Plan Threatens Climate, Ocean

by Gary Kopycinski on May 11, 2015

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WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 11, 2015 – The Interior Department today approved Royal Dutch Shell’s Chukchi Sea exploratory drilling plans, clearing the way for its drilling rigs to operate off Alaska for the first time since 2012 – when one Shell rig had to be scrapped after running aground off Kodiak Island and another incurred a $12 million fine for breaking maritime law.