Alex DeMarban | Nov 30, 2012
Royal Dutch Shell’s containment dome was “crushed like a beer can” earlier this year in Puget Sound, during failed sea-trial tests that raised questions about the oil giant’s ability to respond to an oil spill in the U.S. Arctic Ocean, according to a Seattle radio station.
The beer-can observation belongs to Mark Fesmire, head of the Alaska office of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). It and other details about what went wrong with the testing are included in emails obtained by KUOW through a Freedom of Information Act request.