{"id":70972,"date":"2009-12-08T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shell-gets-the-okay-to-drill-baby-drill-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-08T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:20:00","slug":"shell-gets-the-okay-to-drill-baby-drill-on-alaskas-north-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/70972","title":{"rendered":"Shell Gets The Okay To Drill, Baby, Drill On Alaska&#8217;s North Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b1e7caa00000000005b9e1c\" border=\"0\" alt=\"alaska north slope\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Minerals Management Service on Monday approved&nbsp; Shell&#8217;s plan to drill three &#8220;exploratory&#8221; wells off the North Slope of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) calls it &#8220;progress.&#8221; Alaskan environmentalists are crying foul. Big surprise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/newswatchenergy\/archives\/2009\/12\/shell_gets_ok_f.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fnewswatchenergy+(NewsWatch%3A+Energy)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">The Houston Chronicle<\/a>: A number of Alaskan environmental and community groups expressed disappointment in the MMS decision, calling it a &#8220;rubber stamp&#8221; on the plan without doing &#8220;a full analysis of its potentially significant effects on wildlife and Alaska Native subsistence, already threatened by climate change&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The greenlight for Shell will likely put wildlife at risk, says Karla Dutton, Alaska Program Director with the Defenders of Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/newswatchenergy\/archives\/2009\/12\/shell_gets_ok_f.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fnewswatchenergy+(NewsWatch%3A+Energy)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Continue reading here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shell-gets-the-okay-to-drill-baby-drill-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shell-doesnt-expect-oil-prices-to-rebound-in-the-next-year-2009-4\">Shell Doesn&#8217;t Expect Oil Prices To Rebound In The Next Year (RDS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-advances-in-horizontal-drilling-mean-for-shale-oil-2009-11\">What Advances In Horizontal Drilling Mean For Shale Oil (UNG, USO)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/r7xQGSwtghY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minerals Management Service on Monday approved&nbsp; Shell&#8217;s plan to drill three &#8220;exploratory&#8221; wells off the North Slope of Alaska. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) calls it &#8220;progress.&#8221; Alaskan environmentalists are crying foul. Big surprise. The Houston Chronicle: A number of Alaskan environmental and community groups expressed disappointment in the MMS decision, calling it a &#8220;rubber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70972","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}