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May 14th, 2010:

Oil spill on ice not worth the risk

Photo shows the coastal plain within the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska Image Library. REUTERS/HANDOUT/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

REUTERS

May 14, 2010 11:44 EDT

– Dennis Takahashi-Kelso is executive vice president of Ocean Conservancy and wasAlaska Commissioner of Environmental Conservation at the time of the Exxon Valdez spill. Jim Ayers is vice president and senior adviser at Oceana and was executive director of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council. Any views expressed here are their own. –
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U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits

THE NEW YORK TIMES

By IAN URBINA Published: May 13, 2010

Charlie Riedel/Associated Press: A brown pelican flew Thursday past protective booms surrounding the Breton National Wildlife Reserve in the Gulf of Mexico.

A version of this article appeared in print on May 14, 2010, on page A1 of the New York edition.

WASHINGTON — The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species — and despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have on the gulf. read more

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Appeals court rejects challenge to fed approval of Shell exploratory drilling plan in Arctic

By: DAN JOLING
Associated Press
05/13/10 7:20 PM EDT

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA  — A federal appeals court Thursday removed a legal challenge standing in the way of Shell Oil’s plans to drill wells off Alaska’s shore this summer. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a case that challenged federal approval of Shell’s exploratory drilling plans in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The expedited ruling followed oral arguments last week in Portland, Ore.

The court determined that the federal Minerals Management Service met its obligations to consider the potential threat to wildlife and the risk for disaster before it approved Shell’s Arctic Ocean project.

Shell Oil, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, hopes to drill three exploratory wells in the Chukchi and two in the Beaufort this summer with a 514-foot drilling ship, the Frontier Discoverer.

Chris Krenz, Arctic project manager for Oceana, one of the plaintiffs, said the decision was disappointing in light of the ongoing BP crude oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. read more

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