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Shell Just Got The Green Light To Drill In The Arctic

Shell Just Got The Green Light To Drill In The Arctic

by The Daily Eye Team July 30 2015, 4:24 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 34 secs

Federal regulators say Shell can start drilling for oil in the frigid waters off Alaska this summer, but it can't go all the way without protection. The device that would be used to cap any blowout is currently aboard a damaged icebreaker that's heading back to Portland, Oregon, for repairs. So the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), will let Shell drill only until it's about to hit the layer beneath the seabed where it expects to hit oil or gas ? and stop until that "capping stack" arrives at the drill site in the remote Chukchi Sea, about 70 miles north of the Alaskan coast. Read More?at ?www.news.vice.com




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