Wall Street Journal
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Interior Department said Monday it has approved a plan by Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB, RDSB.LN) to drill for oil and natural gas off Alaska's coast in the Beaufort Sea.
Shell unit Shell Offshore Inc. bought two offshore oil and gas leases during federal lease sales in 2005 and 2007. Those leases are not included in the five-year oil and gas leasing plan that the Interior Department is reviewing for possible revision under a court order.
Shell has proposed drilling two exploration wells during the July-October 2010 drilling season, ...
(More here. Alaska Wilderness League, Center For Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, National Audubon Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, Pacific Environment, Sierra Club and World Wildlife Fund released the following statement:)
ANCHORAGE - The federal government’s Minerals Management Service put its rubber stamp on a plan today that allows Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell) to drill in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea as early as this summer. MMS approved Shell’s exploratory drilling plan despite a basic lack of fundamental information about the impacts of oil and gas development on the Arctic Ocean environment.
“This decision is very disappointing,” said David Dickson, Western Arctic & Oceans Program Director at Alaska Wilderness League. “Once again, MMS approved a drilling plan without a full analysis of the potential consequences.”
Shell’s plan proposes exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea, 20 miles off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, from July to October 2010, using a 514-foot long drill ship and an armada of support vessels and aircraft. This activity would generate industrial noise in the water while emitting tons of pollutants into the air and thousands of barrels of waste into the water.
(Statements by the MMA, Shell and the environmental consortium are here.)
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