{"id":526160,"date":"2010-04-13T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2010-04-13T07:44:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:44:22","slug":"shell-receives-air-permit-to-explore-beaufort-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526160","title":{"rendered":"Shell receives air permit to explore Beaufort Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63920620100410\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources\/r\/?m=02&amp;d=20100410&amp;t=2&amp;i=89839919&amp;w=460&amp;r=2010-04-10T185513Z_01_BTRE6391GK600_RTROPTP_0_SHELL\" width=\"319\" align=\"left\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/04\/12\/6\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: Royal Dutch Shell PLC has received a federal permit the company  needed to begin exploratory drilling in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Beaufort_Sea_large_marine_ecosystem\">Alaska&#8217;s Beaufort Sea<\/a>, federal  officials announced late Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Environmental_Protection_Agency,_United_States\">U.S. EPA<\/a> issued a permit covering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Air_pollution_emissions\">air pollutants<\/a> emitted from the  drill ship and supporting vessels the company needs to drill two  exploratory wells off Alaska&#8217;s northern coast. This ends a nearly four  year wait for Shell, which needed the approval to use an  ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel and other technological advances, EPA said  in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This permit ensures that exploration and drilling will occur in a  way that protects air quality,&#8221; said Rick Albright, director of the air,  waste and toxics issues for EPA&#8217;s Seattle office.<\/p>\n<p>Shell will use a single drill ship and a fleet of support vessels to  drill the Sivulliq and Torpedo prospects, which contain hydrocarbons.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists and native groups are worried the drilling will  release more emissions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Carbon_dioxide\">carbon dioxide<\/a>, hurting the people and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Wildlife_habitat\">wildlife<\/a> in a region already affected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Climate_change\">climate change<\/a> (Yereth Rosen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63920620100410\" >Reuters<\/a>,  April 10). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3281&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3281\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Royal Dutch Shell PLC has received a federal permit the company needed to begin exploratory drilling in Alaska&#8217;s Beaufort Sea, federal officials announced late Friday. U.S. EPA issued a permit covering air pollutants emitted from the drill ship and supporting vessels the company needs to drill two exploratory wells off Alaska&#8217;s northern coast. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}