By Kim Murphy and Jim Tankersley, Los Angeles Times
May 6, 2010
Reporting from Seattle and Washington
Environmental groups oppose a plan to drill three exploration wells, saying harsh conditions could make an accident much worse.
A coalition of some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups launched an 11th-hour challenge Wednesday to halt the next frontier in offshore drilling the July start of Shell Offshore Inc.’s plan to drill three exploration wells in the Arctic.
The groups the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society and the Natural Resources Defense Council appealed to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to suspend the drilling plan at least until a cause can be determined for the disastrous blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
They warned that the challenges of coping with an oil rig blowout in remote Arctic waters “would far surpass those related to BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion,” which is estimated to be gushing oil into the gulf at a rate of 5,000 barrels a day. They said Shell’s emergency plans are weak and there is a lack of sufficient support crews and emergency equipment to respond quickly to a significant oil spill. read more
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