Daily News – Miner
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10 October 2010
Editorial
Shell isnt giving up easily on its investment in oil fields off Alaskas coastline. Last week, the oil company once again applied to federal officials for a permit to drill an exploratory well in the Beaufort Sea this time in the summer of 2011. Its in Alaskas interest that the process works this time and the company gains the necessary permission slips.
Shells efforts to drill exploratory wells on its Beaufort Sea offshore leases have been stymied for several years by court cases and administrative delays. It secured a significant victory in court this spring, with a decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld Shells exploration plans for both the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
Then the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out and took Shells plans for this season with it.
In the wake of that explosion, Shell voluntarily strengthened its plans for dealing with any oil release from its proposed exploratory wells in the Arctic. It has committed to have a containment system on hand that would capture oil from a blowout, for example. Such a system was absent in the Gulf well disaster and, once it was built, didnt work in the mile-deep waters. read more
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