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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShell says FU to the US. We are drilling in the Chukchi without emergency well-capping equipment.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/17/1403001/-Shell-says-FU-to-the-US-We-are-drilling-in-the-Chukchi-without-emergency-well-capping-equipmentIt is expected to take several weeks to repair the crucial icebreaking ship for drilling operations. Winter in the Chukchi starts in September so any work will need to be completed and capped by that time. Shell does not give a crap about their obligations to their drilling permits and environmental impact assessment. They are moving the remainder of their vessels to the Chukchi to drill without the critically important Fennica because to them only the black gold matters to them....
Shell appears to have opted for speed over safety in sending the Fennica along the route it did. Some of the charted depths in the Fennicas path gave it just seven and a half feet of clearance in some areas even at high tide, as it was when the ship was under way on July 3 and the hull breach was discovered. Shell could have sent the Fennica on a slightly longer route out of Dutch Harbor that would have kept it in deeper water....
The damage to the Fennica due to traveling through shallow water is yet another example of Shell's reckless attitude in its pursuit of unburnable Arctic oil, David Turnbull of Oil Change International told DeSmog, referring to the fact that the vast majority of proven fossil fuel energy reserves cannot be burned if were to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, the critical threshold climate scientists say is necessary to prevent the worst impacts of runaway climate change.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)I'd forecast no repercussions from the administration.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)from the start, with one mishap after another. How anyone can hope that they won't totally fuck this up going forward is beyond me.
TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)I'd love to see that big drilling rig torpedoed...
Hydra
(14,459 posts)The BP oil spill was something we foresaw too, but we were told the "Adults" were in charge and things would be fine.
I'm sure we're not going to see exactly the same thing happen here...right?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)will be sent to Shell, where it will promptly be shredded after a big laugh is had in the executive suite.
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