Oil and gas exploration by energy giants Exxon, BP and Rosneft is seriously threatening one of the world’s most critically endangered whales, according to a panel of top scientists in a new report. The Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel (WGWAP), composed of 11 scientists and representatives from Shell and Sakahlin Energy…
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Shell To Shift Alaska Exploration Plans
After battling native communities and environmental groups on Alaska’s North Slope over its offshore drilling plans, Royal Dutch Shell said Wednesday that it was scaling back its exploration program in the Beaufort Sea.
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BP & Exxon ignore pleas to help worlds most endangered whales
“On the one hand, we have Shell and Gazprom at least looking at their plans to see if impacts on whales can be reduced and on the other hand we have BP, Exxon and Rosneft not even telling scientists what their plans are.”
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Lawsuit pending against NOAA over ribbon seal protection
Smith said Shell has published detailed plans, tested procedures, trained and demonstrated to regulators and community leaders the oil company’s capacity to deal with any conceivable spill event in arctic ice and open arctic water.
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Unexpected friends
When a consortium called Sakhalin Energy, led by Royal Dutch Shell, announced plans to build an oil platform and lay pipelines in the only bay where the whales were known to congregate, these protests proliferated.
The Great Game Moves North
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court, for example, ruled last November that before the Royal Dutch Shell company can move forward with exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska — for which it had already paid the U.S. government billions of dollars in leases — the U.S. Interior Department needs to further study the environmental impacts of drilling on the sea’s bowhead whale population and nearby indigenous communities.
WWF says whales leaving Sakhalin waters due to oil, gas projects
Oil and natural gas development off the coast of Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East could have forced endangered whales to leave their habitat in the area, a local WWF spokesperson said on Thursday.
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Shell considers appealing Beaufort ruling
The company’s general manager, Pete Slaiby, says the company was disappointed, particularly after investing $2.5 billion over the last three years on leases and operations in the state.
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Shell considers appealing federal court ruling
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The head of Shell Alaska says the company may appeal a recent federal court ruling that has delayed its plans to drill exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea next year.
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Shell drilling plan turned down by court of appeals
The U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) illegally approved plans by Shell Offshore Inc. to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Alaska, according to a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Nov. 20 ruling
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