Salazar freezes new drilling permits; Norway questions new drilling as well
The ramifications of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are now hitting home in the Arctic. Secretary of the Interior Ken…
Dept. of Interior approves drilling in Chukchi Sea
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar conditionally approved Shell Oil Company’s plan to drill three “exploratory, information-gathering” oil wells in…
The future of offshore drilling in the US Arctic
The Arctic supposedly holds 90 billion barrels of oil – 22% of the world’s remaining oil and gas reserves. These…