More than a year after the court placed an injunction on Shell's Beaufort Sea drilling, the court has still not ruled on an appeal by the North Slope Borough, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and several environmental organizations against the U.S. Minerals Management Service's approval of Shell's Beaufort Sea exploration plan. The court heard oral arguments in the case last December.
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Alaska central to US energy supplies, Shell’s Odum says
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How Washington Can Help Alaska Drill: Three years in, Shell is still waiting to recover a single barrel of oil
Two years ago, environmentalists teamed up with Alaska Natives who depend on subsistence whaling for their livelihoods and culture. They sued in federal district court in Alaska in July 2007 to stop Shell's exploratory drilling, claiming that it could disturb the whales and interfere with traditional bowhead-whale hunts.
Shell accused of manipulating environmental report
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Greenwash Champions
Energy giant accused of leaning on authors of independent environmental report to help secure financial backing for controversial oil and gas extraction project
Tom Young, BusinessGreen, 01 Sep 2008
Royal Dutch Shell is facing allegations that it was heavy handed in influencing a supposedly independent environmental report on one of the world’s largest oil and gas extraction projects.
A report in The Observer yesterday cited email evidence that allegedly shows Shell looked to downplay some of the environmental criticism included in the review of the $22bn Sakhalin II Project in Russia which has now received the bulk of the funding it required for work on the project to begin.
Sakhalin Whales Panel Faults Gas Venture
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A scientific panel report released Friday revealed ongoing concerns that the Sakhalin-II oil and gas joint venture hasn't complied with all of recommendations on the protection of the endangered Western Gray Whale.
Prince Andrew Shell Connections: UK Royal visits project linked to death of whales
Prince Andrew, a senior member of the British royal family, may provoke international criticism this week when he visits an oil project which threatens to lead to the extinction of the Western Pacific grey whale, damage environments and destroy fisheries.
Inupiat Eskimo sue Shell to fend off danger of offshore oil
So far, neither the legal wrangling, nor the high costs of Arctic operations have daunted Shell and other top oil companies, which are eager to capitalize on soaring prices and projections of unquenchable demand for oil and gas in the coming decades. As the largest new player offshore, Shell has spent nearly $3 billion on leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. Both Shell and ConocoPhillips are trying to amass federal permits that would free them to ramp up exploration this summer. Those permits would allow the "incidental harassment" of wildlife during routine industrial activities.
Lawsuit Filed to Block Loud Oil Exploration in Arctic Seas
Seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent seismic surveying in the Arctic Ocean, the lawsuit alleges the federal government violated the National Environmental Policy Act by issuing permits to Shell Oil and British Petroleum prematurely, before completing an Environmental Impact Statement.
Oil exploration tests off Alaska prompt lawsuit
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 5 (Reuters) - A coalition of environmental and Alaska Native groups on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking to block the oil industry from conducting seismic tests the groups say will harm whales, walruses and other marine mammals in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, targets permits issued to Shell and BP...
Groups sue to stop seismic oil exploration in Arctic seas
The groups are challenging federal permits that allow Shell Oil Co. and BP PLC to search for oil and gas using powerful acoustic devices that have been shown, at times, to harm a variety of marine animals.
Shell considers third train at Sakhalin-2
UPI Energy Watch: Shell considers third train at Sakhalin-2
“A huge and diverse array of technical and environmental challenges have surrounded the project, including the need to reroute offshore pipelines to bypass feeding grounds for an endangered species of whale. In July, the Sakhalin Energy partners announced a massive revision to the project budget — to $20 billion from $10 billion — and a delay to first LNG deliveries.”
Wednesday 19 October 2005
Intl. Intelligence
By ANDREA R. MIHAILESCU
United Press International
Shell and Japanese partners Mitsui and Mitsubishi are evaluating options for a third train at their Sakhalin-2 LNG development on Russia’s Pacific Shelf.
Gas to supply a third train could come from a variety of sources, David Greer, deputy chief executive of Sakhalin Energy, the project operating company, said last Thursday during a presentation to an industry gathering in Scotland.
“The issue is getting the additional gas that would be required,” Greer said. “We are looking at deeper prospects in (the) Lunskoye (gas field). We have some space for a third train. It will be a question of earmarking the most appropriate reserves.” But a third train “wouldn’t be available much before 2012,” he said.
Setback for Shell as whale expert quits over Sakhalin
The Observer (UK): Setback for Shell as whale expert quits over Sakhalin
‘There is much that Shell could do to make this project safer. They know it, we all know it and the world will know it if we, as scientists, take a stand.’: “Steiner’s comments will be a severe blow to Shell which, with Russian energy giant Gazprom, holds a majority stake in this important but very problematic project. This summer Shell said costs on Sakhalin-2 may be double original estimates, ballooning to $20bn.”
Sunday 11 Sept 2005
Nick Mathiason
Sunday September 11, 2005
Royal Dutch Shell’s $20 billion Sakhalin-2 gas and oil project off the east coast of Russia faces a further setback this weekend.
A leading whale expert has resigned in protest from the Independent Scientific Review Panel set up by Shell to monitor the effect the project was having on the endangered western Pacific grey whales.
Earlier this year, following pressure from environmentalists, Shell changed the route of a pipeline which could have led to the extinction of the whales.
Royal Dutch Shell News Saturday, 26 February 2005
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Reuters: Shell-Led Russia Venture Vows to Protect Rare Whales
Reuters: Shell-Led Russia Venture Vows to Protect Rare Whales
“It is the most comprehensive and largest whale project funded solely by industry for whales anywhere in the world,”
Fri 13 August, 2004 09:36
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Royal Dutch/Shell -led group developing oil and gas fields in the Russian far east moved to assure worried ecologists on Friday it is doing all it can to protect rare gray whales living in the coastal waters.
Green activists have accused the oil major of endangering the future of the marine mammals by developing the oil-rich shelf near the whales’ only remaining summer feeding and migrating habitat just off Sakhalin Island.
Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd., the operator of the multi-billion dollar Sakhalin-2 project, said it and its partners would spend more than $2 million this year to monitor and protect the animals.
Financial Times: Shell reschedules work to help whales
Financial Times: Shell reschedules work to help whales
By Clay Harris
Published: May 3 2004 5:00 | Last Updated: May 3 2004 5:00
Sakhalin Energy Investment, a joint venture led by Royal Dutch/Shell, has rescheduled pipeline construction work off the Pacific coast of Russia to minimise disturbance to the critically endangered western grey whale. It said the change would not affect its overall production schedule, with the first deliveries of liquefied natural gas due to reach customers in 2007.
The change reflects the discovery that pipelines in the Piltun-Astokhskoye field, where the sea freezes in winter, will have to be buried deeper under the seabed. This will require larger and louder dredging vessels.
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