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Arctic drilling invites disaster: Column

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Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 18.39.24Arctic drilling invites disaster: Column

Nick Jans: EDT May 27, 2015

An oil spill in sea ice is permanent. And Shell is nowhere near prepared for summer drilling.

I stood on the shore of the Chukchi Sea, at the far northern rim of Alaska. On that late May evening, a maze of shifting ice spilled off to the horizon; a world of the same stretched beyond that, more than 1,000 miles to the North Pole. Out in that vast expanse, Inupiat whalers waited in traditional camps for their first bowhead whale of the season; polar bears roamed, hunting walrus and seals. Slanting in, the midnight sun cast mirages and colors that have no earthly name. I squinted into the distance and tried to imagine oil wells out there, too — dozens, and eventually hundreds, scattered across the face of this harsh but fragile ocean wilderness. read more

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Senator calls for U.S. to join oil price probe

Screen Shot 2013-05-17 at 01.04.00Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY4:43 p.m. EDT May 17, 2013

U.S. public concern over a European probe into possible oil price manipulation escalated Friday as the head of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources urged the Justice Department to join the investigation.

The request from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., came after European Union investigators this week raided the offices of global energy giants BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil. The anti-trust probe is examining whether the companies manipulated oil prices by making false reports to Platts, an energy industry data service owned by McGraw Hill Financial. read more

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