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Shell Arctic Drill Rig Confronted at Sea by Indigenous Activists and Greenpeace Canada

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Screen Shot 2015-06-09 at 22.51.53Press release from Greenpeace

June 17, 2015 – 4:51pm – By The Arctic Journal

Indigenous artist and activist Audrey Siegl today approached the 300-foot-tall Polar Pioneer drill rig in an inflatable boat launched from the MY Esperanza, while two Greenpeace Canada swimmers spread out in the water behind her to put their bodies in the way of the rig heading to the Arctic to drill for oil.

Siegl, dressed in the traditional regalia of the Musqueam people, stood at the front of the inflatable boat with her drum and feather out in front of her, signaling the Polar Pioneer to stop. Speaking from the action, she said: read more

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Shell Gets U.S. Permit to Disturb Marine Life Off Alaska’s Coast

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Screen Shot 2015-06-11 at 19.31.15Bloomberg.com article by Mark Drajem: June 16, 2015

Royal Dutch Shell Plc received U.S. approval to disturb marine mammals as part of its plan to resume oil exploration off Alaska’s Arctic coast.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued an “incidental harassment authorization,” which allows noise from air guns, icebreaking, drilling and anchor handling. The June 12 permit, which covers July through October, doesn’t allow Shell to injure or kill any marine life.

Shell earlier received general approval for oil exploration for the coming months from the Department of Interior. The Hague-based company still must get a specific drilling plan from Interior’s offshore regulator, and work around ice flows and other vagaries of being 70 miles offshore Alaska in the Chukchi Sea. read more

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We Must Stop Shell Oil

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We Must Stop Shell Oil

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Jane Fonda Activist, advocate and actress

I’ve been in Vancouver for two days where I joined with Greenpeace activists, First Nations peoples, parents, grandparents, professors, students at an amazing 6-hour “Toast The Coast” rally on Jericho Beach to celebrate the pristine beauty of the Northwest coastline and to stop Big Oil from devastating it: Shell’s preparing to drill in Alaska, new pipelines are proposed to bring tar sand oil to the coast, more oil-carrying super tankers running up and down the coast. Remember Exxon Valdez? read more

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Shell arctic oil rig leaves Seattle, met by protesters

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Screen Shot 2015-05-23 at 08.08.45Shell arctic oil rig leaves Seattle, met by protesters

Michael Konopasek and Travis Pittman, KING 5 News: 15 June 2015

SEATTLE – The Shell Oil arctic drilling rig Polar Pioneer headed out of Seattle Monday on its way to Alaska but not before an attempted blockade by protesters in kayaks.

Greenpeace says the Coast Guard took thirteen protesters into custody including Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien. Seattle City Hall says O’Brien was booked and fined $250.

The Polar Pioneer undocked from Terminal 5 at 6 a.m., pulled by tug boats.

Protesters sent out an alert Sunday night to supporters to block the departure. read more

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Kayak protesters detained after trying to stop Shell oil rig from leaving Seattle for Alaska

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By PHUONG LE Associated Press JUNE 15, 2015

SEATTLE — The U.S. Coast Guard says it has detained several protesters in kayaks who tried to block Royal Dutch Shell’s drill rig as it leaves Seattle on its way to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean.

Lt. Dana Warr says several people were detained Monday, mostly for violating the safety zone around the vessel. He didn’t immediately know how many. He says the rig departed around 6 a.m. with police and Coast Guard enforcing the safety zone.

Greenpeace spokeswoman Cassady Sharp says about a dozen “kayaktivists” paddled out around 4 a.m. and formed a blockade. She says about 40 to 50 supporters in kayaks and canoes lined up behind them. read more

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‘Kayaktivists’ take to water to try and blockade Shell oil platform

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Screen Shot 2015-06-05 at 20.48.28“Kayaktivists” take to water to try and blockade Shell oil platform

POSTED 5:14 AM, JUNE 15, 2015, BY JOHN WHITE

SEATTLE – Anti-Shell Oil “kayaktivists” took to the waters of Elliott Bay Monday morning, to try and blockade Shell Oil’s “Polar Pioneer” oil rig platform. 

Thirteen protesters got into kayaks and headed toward the oil rig that’s been at Terminal 5 on Harbor Island, according to a press release from Greenpeace.

“The activists have secured themselves in place with enough supplies to last for hours while additional protests take place on shore,” Greenpeace said. read more

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Shell wins two more permits for planned Arctic drilling campaign

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Screen Shot 2015-06-11 at 19.31.15Shell wins two more permits for planned Arctic drilling campaign

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy: 13 June 2015

WASHINGTON — Shell has nabbed two more critical government approvals for its planned exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean this summer.

The latest authorizations came from the Environmental Protection Agency, which is allowing Shell to discharge wastewater from its contracted drilling rigs, the Transocean Polar Pioneer and the Noble Discoverer, into the Chukchi Sea northwest of Alaska.

The fluids that could be flow from the rigs, under the EPA’s authorization, include water-based drilling fluids, cuttings from inside the well and wastewater produced on board. read more

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Royal Dutch Shell Arctic Challenger Sets Sail for Alaska

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Bidness Etc takes a look at the first vessel in Shell’s Arctic drilling fleet setting off for Alaska

By: MICHEAL KAUFMAN: Jun 12, 2015 

According to oil giant Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) the first vessel in its Arctic drilling fleet, The Arctic Challenger, has set sail from Washington state to Alaska. The fleet intends to conduct exploration for oil and gas in the Arctic region in the summer season. Shell spokeswoman Megan Baldino informed that The Arctic Challenger had departed Bellingham for the Dutch Harbor in Unalaska off mainland Alaska, Reuters reports. There are several support vessels that will head for the Arctic region, along with drilling rigs to explore for oil in July. The drilling will take place in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. read more

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Arctic drilling opponents hanging from Shell ship in Washington state

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Screen Shot 2015-06-13 at 09.20.00Arctic drilling opponents hanging from Shell ship in Washington state

Seattle, June 12, 2015

Two activists strapped themselves on Friday to the anchor chain of a Shell Royal Dutch Shell vessel docked in Washington state that will be part of a fleet sent north to Alaska to resume drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic.

The women used camping gear and hammocks to attach themselves to the massive chain on the barge in Bellingham, Washington, north of Seattle, the activist group ShellNo said.

They attached themselves to the vessel, the American Trader, around 3:30 a.m., the group said. Both are students at Western Washington University, KIRO-TV reported. read more

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Arctic energy debate can be more than Shell rigs and Greenpeace protests

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Arctic energy debate can be more than Shell rigs and Greenpeace protests

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Victoria Herrmann: June 12, 2015

Today, the phrase “Arctic energy” has become synonymous with snowy oil rigs, icy ocean exploration, and Greenpeace activists. The recent conditional approval of Shell’s plans to drill in the Chukchi Sea has reinforced this narrow delineation of energy debates about the top of the world.

Reflective of how the Lower 48 views the Arctic more generally, northern energy is written as an extractive narrative. From the opening of shipping routes to warnings of climate change consequences, the Arctic is frequently framed and valued by how it can help those living below 66 degrees north. read more

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First vessel in Shell’s Arctic drilling fleet heads for Alaska

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SEATTLE, JUNE 11 | BY VICTORIA CAVALIERE

The first vessel in Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling fleet has embarked from Washington state to Alaska ahead of its planned resumption of oil and gas exploration in the remote region this summer, the company said on Thursday.

The Arctic Challenger, an oil spill containment barge, had left Bellingham, north of Seattle, and was headed toward Dutch Harbor, in Unalaska, off mainland Alaska, Shell spokeswoman Megan Baldino said. She did not know when it would arrive. read more

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Port commissioner getting donations from executives involved in Shell deal

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By Joseph O’SullivanSeattle Times Olympia bureau: June 11, 2015

As Port of Seattle Commissioner Bill Bryant raises money for his gubernatorial campaign, he’s getting help from executives in companies involved in the deal to bring Shell Oil drilling equipment to a Seattle port terminal.

Bryant, a Republican who declared his run last month to challenge Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, has received $2,500 in campaign donations from Paul Stevens, CEO of Foss Maritime, according to campaign filings.

Records also show that Mark Tabbutt, listed as the chairman of Saltchuk Resources, the maritime conglomerate that owns Foss, has given $1,500. read more

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U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to Shell spill plans in Alaska

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U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to Shell spill plans in Alaska

Business News | Thu Jun 11, 2015 3:47pm BST

A divided federal appeals court rejected an effort by environmental groups to void a U.S. agency’s approval of two oil spill response plans by Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) related to the company’s oil leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas on Alaska’s Arctic coast.

By a 2-1 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected a claim that the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which is part of the Department of the Interior, acted unlawfully in approving the plans, which relate to leases from 2005, 2007 and 2008. read more

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By Jane Fonda, actress, writer, and activist.

The China Syndrome actress on the dangers of Shell drilling for oil

In less than 30 days, Royal Dutch Shell wants to begin drilling for oil in the newly ice-free parts of the Alaskan Arctic. The company is ignoring the advice of engineers and scientists around the world who say this type of extreme fossil fuel project can’t go forward if we have any hope of stopping the most catastrophic effects of climate change. From India to Australia, we’re already dealing with droughts, superstorms, and resource scarcity caused by climate change, and if we don’t change our energy system to help protect the Arctic, it will all only get worse. But instead of seeing this as a what it is—a tragedy—Shell is using the melting Arctic as an opportunity for profit. read more

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Anti-Arctic drilling activists arrested at Seattle harbor

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Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 18.39.24By KOMO Staff Published: Jun 9, 2015

Anti-Arctic drilling activists arrested at Seattle harbor

SEATTLE – Five activists opposed to undersea oil drilling off the north shore of Alaska were arrested as they continued their ongoing series of protests Tuesday morning, blocking a Seattle terminal where a Royal Dutch Shell arctic oil rig is being fitted out.

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The protesters set up blockades at two entrances to Terminal 5, where the Polar Pioneer is being prepared for its journey to northern Alaska to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. The massive rig has been a lightning rod for numerous protests since it was towed into Seattle in May. read more

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Seattle protesters seek to block access to Shell Arctic drilling rig

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Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 18.39.24Seattle protesters seek to block access to Shell Arctic drilling rig

Business News | Tue Jun 9, 2015 6:29pm BST

A group of protesters gathered at the Port of Seattle on Tuesday seeking to block workers attempting to reach a Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) drilling rig that could depart this week to resume fossil fuel exploration in the Arctic.

Over the past month, activists have staged demonstrations against the oil company’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, including on May 16 when hundreds of protesters in kayaks and small boats fanned out on a Seattle bay. read more

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Anti-Shell protesters blocking Terminal 5

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Activists say they want to prevent the drilling rig from leaving Seattle on time, en route to Alaska.

By Evan BushSeattle Times staff reporter: 9 June 2015

Activists demonstrating against Shell’s oil rig are blocking entrances to Terminal 5 in Seattle.

Stina Janssen, a spokeswoman for ShellNo, said the protesters are trying to “block work Tuesday in order to stop Shell drilling’s oil rig from going out on time.”

Janssen said about 25 protesters were “successfully able to block traffic this morning.” The protesters are split between an overpass near Terminal 5 and another entrance. read more

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What’s Latest On Protest Against Royal Dutch Shell plc In Seattle?

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What’s Latest On Protest Against Royal Dutch Shell plc In Seattle?

Bidness Etc takes a look at the latest developments taking place in Seattle as the activists oppose the terminal’s use on the Port of Seattle by Shell to park its Polar Pioneer rig

By: MICHEAL KAUFMANPublished: Jun 9, 2015 

Multiple developments have taken place in Seattle as the protest against Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) has intensified. The oil major is, currently using the Terminal 5 of the Port of Seattle to park its Polar Pioneer rig.

This week on Wednesday, the rig is expected to commence its journey to Alaska, according to Reuters. However, the shipping company, Foss Maritime and the energy giant have not yet issued any statement publicly regarding the shipping of the rig. Activists in Seattle claim that the police destroyed the staging area, which was the focal point for the local protestors. read more

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Shell Plans to Drill In Arctic Ocean, Despite Setbacks, Protests and Lawsuits

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Reaching for Remote Hydrocarbon Riches, Shell Oil Plans to Drill In Arctic Ocean, Despite Setbacks, Protests and Lawsuits

Screen Shot 2015-06-09 at 09.26.28By John J. Berger, Ph. D.

Where are we heading now in our quest for more “cheap energy”? North, to the Arctic!

Despite the Obama Administration’s jawboning about the dangers of climate change and the Administration’s Climate Action Plan, it has recently given conditional approval to Shell Oil to drill for oil in the perilous waters of the Chukchi Sea.

Experts who know the risks of drilling in those cold and remote waters say there is a high probability of an oil spill and that Shell has no credible means of cleaning it up. The company’s record scarcely inspires confidence. read more

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Shell pressing ahead in Chukchi after setbacks

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Screen Shot 2015-06-06 at 13.24.59Explorers 2015: Shell pressing ahead in Chukchi after setbacks

Company is mobilizing fleet after three-year hiatus, still waiting for final approval of exploration plan

Eric Lidji For Petroleum News: 7 June 2015

After a tiny step forward and many large leaps backward, Royal Dutch Shell plc is once again planning to explore its Burger prospect in the Chukchi Sea this summer.

“We have retained a very significant capability to be ready this year to go ahead,” CEO Ben van Beurden said during a January earnings call. “And we’ve kept all our capability in place, tuned it, upgraded it just to be ready to drill this coming summer season.”

By “capability,” van Beurden was referring to the fleet required for conducting drilling operations in the remote Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of the Alaska. read more

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Shell’s US Arctic drilling will harass thousands of whales and seals

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Rose Hackman in New York: Friday 5 June 2015 

Royal Dutch Shell’s plans for exploratory drilling in the US Arctic this summer will involve the harassment of whales and seals by the thousands, an application document filed by Shell to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) reveals.

Most notably, Shell estimates its Arctic activities will expose more than 2,500 bowhead whales, more than 2,500 gray whales and more than 50,000 ringed seals to continuous sounds and pulsed sounds, deemed damaging enough to constitute harassment.

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INSIGHT-For green activists, Arctic drilling could be the next big thing

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INSIGHT-For green activists, Arctic drilling could be the next big thing

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WASHINGTON, JUNE 3 | BY TIMOTHY GARDNER

Michael Brune is pleased that activists in kayaks are training for another “Paddle in Seattle” to confront an expected Royal Dutch Shell rig on its way to the Arctic to explore for oil. What makes the head of the Sierra Club just as happy is the effect Shell’s Arctic ambitions are having on his own environmental organization.

Sierra’s funding drive against the resumption in Arctic drilling has taken in three times more money than usual campaigns by the nation’s oldest green group, said Brune, though he wouldn’t reveal specific amounts. And the group’s petition opposing President Barack Obama’s decision in favor of Shell last month has collected more signatures than any appeal in two years. read more

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Arctic blowout clean-up costs could exceed Shell’s financial resources

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Screen Shot 2015-05-29 at 13.13.19From a regular contributor 

THE BEAR FACTS -EMERGENCY RESPONSE MAY TAKE TWO OR THREE MONTHS TO ARRIVE!

“The risk of a blowout or spill is always present when a well is drilled. The US government estimates the probability of such an event in Alaska at 75%. In many cases a relief well is the only way in which a blowout can be brought under control, especially if the well casing is breached. There is no “new technology” in existence that eliminates the risk of a blowout, or provides a guarantee that a blowout can be quickly brought under control if it occurs. 

The requirement for “same season” relief well capabilities is intended to avoid a situation where a blowout occurs late in the season and continues unabated until the weather improves sufficiently to undertake well control operations in the following year. The time required to mobilise a second rig, drill a relief well, and kill a blowout may be 2-3 months or more. The “same season” relief well requirement therefore effectively shortens the summer drilling season to just a few weeks. If this requirement is enforced, exploration and development of the Arctic will be almost impossible. If this requirement is not enforced and Shell has a blowout which continues through the winter, the clean-up costs may far exceed Shell’s financial resources.  read more

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Oil industry rebuts proposed Arctic drilling mandates

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Oil industry rebuts proposed Arctic drilling mandates

May 28 2015, 18:58 ET | By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor

  • Oil companies and industry trade groups lash out against the Obama administration plan to require rigs and time to drill relief wells in case of emergencies at their operations in U.S. Arctic waters, claiming the proposed rules would shorten an already brief window for exploratory drilling while dramatically boosting the costs of the operations.
  • The group also says the proposal would lock in the “same-season relief well” requirement even though rapidly evolving technologies might be a better solution when companies lose control of an Arctic well.
  • Similar arguments were delivered today by Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) and Statoil (NYSE:STO), which both hold active leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas north of Alaska; ConocoPhilllips (NYSE:COP), another leaseholder in the area, filed comments that are not yet available.
  • A key sticking point is the same-season relief well requirement – not just the proposed rules for it, but whether it should be allowed in the first place; Shell is asking the Interior Department to replace the requirement with a mandate that oil companies demonstrate they have “assets that can address a source-control event.”
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    Arctic drilling invites disaster: Column

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    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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    Shell drilling may spur Arctic resource race

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    Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 18.39.24Colin Chilcoat, Oilprice.com: May 27, 2015

    In a few short months Shell will (re)enter the Chukchi Sea, between Alaska and Russia. The oil and gas major still awaits approval from a number of state and federal agencies, but in early May the company received the consent of the Obama administration to explore the remote Arctic sea 70 miles off the coast of Alaska.

    If it sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Shell was in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas for much of 2012 – a stint that ended with more headaches than drilling. Following some high-profile failures with its Noble Discoverer and Kulluk rigs, Shell put its Arctic operations on pause in early 2013. Amid slumping profits, the group called off its 2014 plans to resume. Today, the economic indicators are not much better – Shell lost $1.1 billion in the Americas in the first quarter of 2015 – but the company is committed to moving forward. read more

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    Shell lays out its Arctic plans

    Screen Shot 2015-05-13 at 21.47.32Article by Jennifer A. Dlouhy published May 21, 2015 by The Houston Chronicle

    Shell lays out its Arctic plans

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    Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy/Houston Chronicle

    SEATTLE – The executive leading Shell’s Arctic drilling program on Thursday outlined ambitions to drill new wells in the Chukchi Sea this summer, instead of returning to the one the company started three years ago.

    Ann Pickard, Shell’s executive vice president of the Arctic, talked in depth to the Chronicle about the planned wells on a visit to the Transocean Polar Pioneer drilling rig.

    While cranes heaved pipes, drilling fluids and other supplies onto the rig in the Port of Seattle, more than 1,400 miles away in Anchorage, some 400 people – boat captains, federal regulators and Shell officials – conducted a simulation to test how they would respond to an oil spill in the frigid Chukchi Sea. read more

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    What’s at stake: The debate over Arctic drilling

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    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell is planning to park two massive Arctic oil drilling rigs in Seattle’s waterfront before they head north — but the petrochemical giant will first have to get around protesters in kayaks and others who want to thwart the new frontier in oil exploration and spark a national debate about fossil fuels and climate change.

    Here’s a look at the debate over Shell’s plans to drill in the Arctic:

    WHAT’S AT STAKE?

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    The U.S. Geological Survey estimates Arctic offshore reserves at 26 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 130 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. read more

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    Shell Cleared to Drill in Arctic

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    U.S. agency approvals Shell’s Arctic drilling plan off Alaska’s northwest coast.

    By MARK THIESSEN, Associated Press: 11 May 2015

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Just days ahead of a planned protest of Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling program in Seattle, the company on Monday cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle to drill off Alaska’s northwestern coast.

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved the multi-year exploration plan in the Chukchi Sea for Shell after reviewing thousands of comments from the public, Alaska Native organizations and state and federal agencies. read more

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    Not going green: Obama administration allows Shell to pursue Arctic drilling

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    Screen Shot 2015-05-01 at 17.04.22By MARK THIESSEN – Associated Press – Monday, May 11, 2015

    Not going green: Obama administration allows Shell to pursue Arctic drilling

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Royal Dutch Shell cleared a major hurdle Monday in its plans to drill off Alaska’s northwest coast.

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved Shell’s exploration plan for the Chukchi Sea.

    However, this isn’t the final step that Shell needs for Arctic drilling.

    Shell still must obtain other permits from state and federal agencies, including one to drill from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and government opinions that find Shell can comply with terms and conditions of the Endangered Species Act. read more

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    Shell wins injunction keeping Greenpeace away from Arctic drilling fleet

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    Screen Shot 2015-05-01 at 17.04.22Yereth Rosen Alaska Dispatch News: May 8, 2015

    Shell wins injunction keeping Greenpeace away from Arctic drilling fleet

    Greenpeace protesters must stay away from Royal Dutch Shell’s drill ships and support vessels, the anchor lines and buoys attached to them and the Barrow airport hangar and terminal that Shell is seeking to use to support its planned oil-exploration operations in the Chukchi Sea, a federal judge ruled Friday.

    Greenpeace activists are even prohibited from flying drones this summer and fall over the offshore Arctic area where Shell plans to drill, according to the injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason. read more

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    Shell Accused Of Misleading Its Shareholders About The Risks Of Arctic Drilling

    Screen Shot 2015-04-14 at 09.05.35BY ELISE SHULMAN — GUEST CONTRIBUTOR POSTED 29 APRIL 2015 on thinkprogress.org

    Shell Accused Of Misleading Its Shareholders About The Risks Of Arctic Drilling

    If Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling program leads to a major spill, it could cost the oil company — and therefore its shareholders — an entire year’s worth of profit, according to a Tuesday legal filing by the conservation group Oceana and a University of Chicago law clinic.

    But the company’s investors are not aware of that risk, the two groups alleged. Because of that, the groups filed a petition to the Securities and Exchange Commission, requesting that the agency launch a formal investigation into Shell’s risk disclosures to shareholders relating to its activities in the Arctic Ocean. read more

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    Royal Dutch Shell Arctic Assessment Understated, Say Environmental Groups

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    Royal Dutch Shell Arctic Assessment Understated, Say Environmental Groups

    Bidness Etc discusses why environmental groups want Shell to reassess the risks for drilling in the Arctic, and that the previous report undermined the drilling risks involved

    By: MICHEAL KAUFMANApr 28, 2015

    Major oil companies to safeguard themselves from the lower crude oil prices are cutting back on investments and spending. Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) is no different and is planning to undertake similar spending plans when it announces earnings on Thursday.

    Cuts in capital spending are vital for Shell. Shell recently acquired BG Group plc (ADR) (OTCMKTS:BRGYY) for $70 billion. In addition, the company plans on spending $1 billion for drilling in the Alaskan Arctic. These investments mean that the company would need to make substantial cuts in order to sustain a favorable cash position. read more

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    Groups Want Review of Shell’s Arctic Regulatory Filings

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    Groups Want Review of Shell’s Arctic Regulatory Filings

    Two groups petitioned the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday for an investigation of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and what the groups call misstatements in regulatory filings regarding the risk of a catastrophic oil spill from Arctic offshore drilling.

    The petition was filed Monday by Oceana and the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.

    Mike LeVine, an attorney for Oceana, argued that Shell has not disclosed to investors that its response measures to a major or catastrophic spill are unlikely to work. read more

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    Shell Learned Some ‘Expensive Lessons’ in Arctic, Jewell Says

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    Screen Shot 2015-03-02 at 19.49.45Article by Harry Weber published April 20, 2015 by Bloomberg.com

    Royal Dutch Shell Plc learned “some very painful and expensive lessons about contractors” from its mishaps drilling in the Arctic in 2012, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said.

    Shell learned how to better manage companies it relies on for critical aspects of its offshore drilling programs, Jewell told reporters at the IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston on Monday. The U.S. government has “raised the bar” on safety in terms of offshore drilling in recent years, she said.

    The Interior Department this month confirmed Shell’s exploration lease in Alaska, clearing the way for the company to resume drilling that was halted after a stranded rig and legal challenges. Greenpeace activists boarded an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean, seeking to halt Arctic drilling. read more

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    BG Deal May Leave Shell’s Arctic Ambitions In Limbo

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    Screen Shot 2015-04-08 at 08.12.04By Nick CunninghamSun, 19 April 2015

    Royal Dutch Shell’s purchase of BG will turn the combined company into a natural gas behemoth. But one casualty of the merger could be one of Shell’s iconic drilling campaigns: the Arctic.

    The Arctic is thought to hold 13 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves, and 30 percent of its undiscovered natural gas reserves, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. That makes the Arctic “one of the last energy frontiers,” as Shell put it. Sitting off the coast of Alaska could be around 30 billion barrels of oil. read more

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    Giant oil rig arrives in Port Angeles as protesters take to waters off Ediz Hook

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    Screen Shot 2015-04-18 at 19.53.25Giant oil rig arrives in Port Angeles as protesters take to waters off Ediz Hook

    By Chris McDaniel and Paul Gottlieb: Peninsula Daily News

    PORT ANGELES — A 355-foot-tall offshore oil rig entered Port Angeles Harbor at 7:10 a.m. for a two-week stay, and it was met with protesters in kayaks and inflatable boats obeying a Coast Guard safety perimeter around the huge vessel.

    Greenpeace protesters wrapped up early in the afternoon, said Cassidy Sharp, Greenpeace spokeswoman for the Arctic Works campaign. It was uncertain if protesters will be active on Sunday.

    Protest was made without incident, said Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Dana Warr. read more

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    Protesters meet Arctic drill rig in Washington harbor

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    Associated Press article published by The Houston Chronicle 17 April 2015

    Protesters meet Arctic drill rig in Washington harbor

    PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Protesters in kayaks greeted a rig that could be used for oil drilling in the Arctic as it arrived Friday in Washington state following a journey across the Pacific that included being boarded by Greenpeace activists.

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    The 400-foot Polar Pioneer was due to be offloaded in Port Angeles, on the Olympic Peninsula, to have equipment installed.

    About three dozen protesters took to the water, many of them in kayaks, as the rig arrived in the harbor at 7 a.m., the Peninsula Daily News reported (http://is.gd/hgRrhp ). read more

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    Giant oil rig arrives in Port Angeles as protesters gather on Ediz Hook

    Screen Shot 2015-04-17 at 17.10.51By Chris McDaniel and Paul Gottlieb published 17 April 2015 by Peninsula Daily News

    Giant oil rig arrives in Port Angeles as protesters gather on Ediz Hook

    PORT ANGELES — A 400-foot-tall offshore oil rig that is expected to be the focus of nonviolent protests later this morning entered Port Angeles Harbor at 7:10 a.m. for a two-week stay.

    The Polar Pioneer, being transported piggyback on the MV Blue Marlin, a semi-submersible heavy-lift ship, is expected to anchor in the harbor for routine outfitting before being floated on to Seattle.

    Owned by Transocean Ltd., the drilling rig is being escorted by a variety of enforcement agency vessels including Coast Guard control boats and a Clallam County Sheriff’s Office patrol boat. read more

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    Shell plan is out: Company hopes for Chukchi drilling this year; BOEM says plan complete

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    Screen Shot 2015-04-14 at 09.05.35By Alan Bailey of Petroleum News: Week of April 19, 2015

    Shell plan is out: Company hopes for Chukchi drilling this year; BOEM says plan complete

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has deemed Shell’s Chukchi Sea exploration plan complete, has published the plan on the BOEM website and is inviting public comments on the document. Shell wants to resume its Chukchi Sea exploration drilling program during this summer’s Arctic open water season and has begun mobilizing its drilling fleet. However, the company will need a government approved plan before it can start drilling – a public comment period is part of the regulatory procedure that can lead to plan approval. read more

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    Shell, Greenpeace tussle in court over Arctic oil drilling

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    Screen Shot 2015-03-02 at 19.49.45BY BARBARA LISTON: Thu Apr 16, 2015 7:03am EDT

    (Reuters) – Greenpeace volunteers who occupied a Shell Offshore oil drilling vessel en route to the Arctic Ocean last week acted dangerously and jeopardized company property and human life, according to arguments filed in Alaska federal court by Shell lawyers Jeffrey Leppo and Ryan Steen of Seattle.

    Not so, responded Greenpeace lawyer Michael Moberly of Anchorage, who wrote that the captains of the Greenpeace ship Esperanza and Shell’s Blue Marlin were in constant communication throughout the environmentalists’ Arctic drilling protest. read more

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    Coast Guard creates ‘First Amendment zone’ in Puget Sound for anti-Shell protests

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    Coast Guard creates ‘First Amendment zone’ in Puget Sound for anti-Shell protests

    The U.S. Coast Guard, with help from activist groups, has identified an informal  “First Amendment Zone,” just north of Terminal 5, where protesters can take to the water against Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling fleet when it arrives at the Port of Seattle.

    “I didn’t choose this area:  I gave them a chart and asked them where they wanted to be,” Capt. Joe Raymond, captain of the port, said Tuesday.

    Raymond initiated a meeting on Monday with organizers of a “sea of kayaks” protest. He described the zone as “an excellent place” for protesters wishing a high-visibility presence while not interfering with ferries, tugs and other marine traffic in the harbor. read more

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    Shell Wins Lawsuit Against Greenpeace

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    Royal Dutch Shell Wins Lawsuit Against Greenpeace

    Royal Dutch Shell was granted a restraining order against six Greenpeace activists who boarded the company’s vessel last week

    By: MICHEAL KAUFMANPublished: Apr 14, 2015 at 11:22 am EST

    A group of Greenpeace protesters have left the vessel carrying Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A) oil rig, six days after they illegally climbed it to register their protest against offshore drilling in Arctic, the environmental group said in a statement on Saturday.

    The decision to abandon the vessel was prompted by rough weather conditions, claims Greenpeace. The call was made only hours before a US District Court judge ruled in favor of Shell, when the company filed a legal complaint against the activists. A temporary restraining order has been granted for Greenpeace protesters to keep away from Shell’s drilling rigs and the vessel. They had climbed the vessel on April 6, when it was around 750 miles off the coast of Hawaii. read more

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    Shell’s Artic Fate To Be Decided Soon

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    Article by Andy Tully published Monday 13 April 2015 by OilPrice.com

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    Screen Shot 2015-04-14 at 09.05.35The US government has begun its full review of an application by Royal Dutch Shell to resume offshore drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean off the Alaskan coast.

    The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), an arm of the Interior Department, said April 10 that it had satisfactorily finished its initial review of Shell’s application, submitted March 31, to drill in the Chukchi Sea and now could begin its final analysis.

    The Anglo-Dutch energy company has a lease on drilling rights in the region and plans to drill an exploratory well there this summer. Besides getting the BOEM’s approval, it must also undergo federal reviews of its plans for worker safety, the protection of indigenous wildlife and plans for the disposal of wastewater. read more

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    Judge orders Greenpeace away from Shell vessels

    ARTICLE BY TIM BRADNER PUBLISHED BY ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE 13 APRIL 2015

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    Screen Shot 2015-04-14 at 09.05.35The free ride is over for six Greenpeace activists who hitched a ride mid-Pacific on the Shell-chartered Blue Marlin, a heavy-lift ship carrying the semi-submersible rig Polar Pioneer to the Pacific Northwest, its way-stop on the rig’s journey to drill in the Chukchi Sea.

    The protesters quit the rig shortly before U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason issued a Temporary Restraining Order late Saturday blocking Greenpeace from interfering with the Blue Marlin, the Polar Pioneer or the drillship Noble Discoverer, also en route to the Northwest. read more

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    Shell wins restraining order against Greenpeace

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    Article by Jennifer A. Dlouhy published 13 April 2015 by fuelfix.com

    Shell wins restraining order against Greenpeace

    WASHINGTON — Hours after stormy weather forced Greenpeace activists to climb off an Arctic drilling rig in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Shell won a temporary restraining order blocking the group from similar protests.

    The ruling, by U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, bars Greenpeace and its activists from boarding, barricading or interfering with the movement of the drillship Noble Discoverer, the drilling rig Polar Pioneer or the heavy-lift vessel Blue Marlin.

    Gleason stopped short of granting Shell Oil Co.’s request for a broader temporary restraining order that also would bar Greenpeace from encroaching on other support vessels that make up the company’s large Arctic drilling fleet, though the judge will consider the issue — and whether a permanent injunction is warranted — during an April 28 hearing in Anchorage. read more

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    Greenpeace activists abandon Arctic drill rig retained by Shell after six-day stay

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    Greenpeace activists abandon Arctic drill rig retained by Shell after six-day stay

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    SEATTLE –  Greenpeace says six activists opposed to offshore drilling in the Arctic have abandoned a Seattle-bound drill rig they boarded in the Pacific Ocean six days ago.

    The organization said in an email Saturday that rough seas prompted the decision. The protesters rappelled off the rig and got into inflatable boats before returning to a Greenpeace ship stationed nearby.

    The six climbed the Polar Pioneer about 750 miles northwest of Hawaii on Monday. A heavy-lift vessel called the Blue Marlin is transporting the rig to Seattle for staging before possibly heading to the Arctic.

    Royal Dutch Shell, which leased the rig, sued in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, Alaska, last week seeking a court order to remove the protesters. A judge heard arguments on Friday but declined to rule immediately. read more

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    New Sea Drilling Rule Planned, 5 Years After BP Oil Spill

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    Screen Shot 2015-04-12 at 14.33.58Article by CORAL DAVENPORT published APRIL 10, 2015 by The New York Times

    New Sea Drilling Rule Planned, 5 Years After BP Oil Spill

    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is planning to impose a major new regulation on offshore oil and gas drilling to try to prevent the kind of explosions that caused the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, administration officials said Friday.

    The announcement of the Interior Department regulation, which could be made as soon as Monday, is timed to coincide with the five-year anniversary of the disaster, which killed 11 men and sent millions of barrels of oil spewing into the gulf. The regulation is being introduced as the Obama administration is taking steps to open up vast new areas of federal waters off the southeast Atlantic Coast to drilling, a decision that has infuriated environmentalists. read more

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    Shell complaint claims Greenpeace activists risk success of Arctic drill

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    Adam VaughanFriday 10 April 2015 15.19 BST

    Shell has warned it could miss a window to drill for oil in the Arctic this summer, if six Greenpeace activists occupying a rig under contract to the company are not removed, court filings by the oil company reveal.

    “Left unsanctioned, Greenpeace USA’s illegal and tortious actions will, as Greenpeace USA intends, delay and/or prevent Shell from transporting vessels, facilities, supplies, and personnel to the Chukchi Sea, and from conducting federally permitted exploration drilling activities on Shell-owned United States OCS oil and gas leases, during the brief 2015 open water season in the Arctic Ocean.” read more

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    Royal Dutch Shell Sues Greenpeace Activists

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    By: MICHEAL KAUFMANPublished: Apr 8, 2015 at 8:38 am EST

    The oil multinational has filed a legal complaint in a federal court in Alaska, as it looks to remove the six Greenpeace activists from its vessel carrying the Polar Pioneer oil rig.

    In an official statement yesterday, Shell said it has had talks with groups that are against the company’s planned drilling activities in Arctic this summer. While the company respects their views, the recent move by protesters has endangered their lives as well as lives of the crew members. The risky decision to climb a moving vessel is also illegal, claims Shell. read more

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