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Article Source: Telegraph
If the record of Shell or any of those claiming they can drill safely in the Artic is examined, we are in for trouble.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said that Shell could drill in the area providing it met a number of requirements, including stopping drilling activity 38 days before ice appears.
This condition will provide the company with enough time to clean up any spill before the ice forms, making any remedial action impossible. Ice typically forms around November 1.
#1 - Mon Dec 26, 2011 3:16 AM ESTThat is my reaction to this news also, Lee B! Again proving that we are owned by Big Energy, Plutocrats and destroying the Planet is just business as usual.
notsjingo, Why does the grass roots environmental minded person not get it?
The oil companys are deeply entrenched in the Environmental Activist Industry.
This industry is the 1%! And because the have these names like Environmental Defense Fund, or Nature Conservancy, the grass roots people are being deceived and they blindly defend.
I would not be surprised if some of these groups sanction this er responsible move to drill in the harshest environment on the planet.
Look how trying to control a disaster in the Gulf worked out in a friendly environment.
When humdreds of Billion$ are invested to think tanks and slick advertising in order to convince/deceive the Public of how much Energy Companies(read: Big Oil, Coal) care about the Planet Earth, many of the well-meaning, desperate for answers/solutions eat up the fodder like sheep. Many do not. And solutions are roundly buried by these very Industries at any cost.
Yet these myriad groups have financial backing unimaginable to the masses which allow them to maintain their World-Wide grasp over governments and ameliorate it into Energy Security, Environmentally Friendly hogwash which sounds great on the surface. And until the resource providers of these charlatans can be made common knowledge, the shell game will continue, despite the obvious special interests' profit/power motive over all else.
And so many are distracted by the difficulties presented in so many of our day to day, hand to mouth existences that incentive to dig deeper is pushed farther down the list of importance. Survival in the here and now becomes paramount, and hope can be lost to turn this end game around.
Perhaps this is one area of reason, though I am sure there are plenty other factors I have overlooked.
Good to see you bore-head, and also to know you are not one of the fooled.
Peace
#2 - Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:24 PM ESTYet these myriad groups have financial backing unimaginable to the masses which allow them to maintain their World-Wide grasp over governments and ameliorate it into Energy Security, Environmentally Friendly hogwash which sounds great on the surface
Watching the machinery in motion is undeniable when you realize you are seeing the reallity of an agenda unfold, and no matter how much you try, you can't stop it.
All we can do notsojingo is keep trying and hope people get it.
Sending you my best wishes for the upcoming New Year. BH
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