Evironmentalists target Shell over Chukchi and Beaufort leases

Fri, February 1, 2008
Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories

Environmental groups are gearing up for a public and shareholder pressure campaign aimed at getting Shell to back off from plans for oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The campaign will roll out by the end of this month. The Sierra Club is putting it together along with the World Wildlife Fund, the Dutch chapter of Friends of the Earth and some smaller groups in Holland and Belgium.

Joel Southern, APRN - Washington, DC

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One Comment to “Evironmentalists target Shell over Chukchi and Beaufort leases”

JImmy Nukapigak on February 4, 2008 at 6:12 pm

Well i lived in northern most northern alaska all my lifes gathering food from the sea land air, am a whaler , fishman who use this sea as a garden like rest of us we too. if there is a oil spill within our sea there is no way to clean the oil spill on the sea ices that;s moves in such way;s our sea as a garden we use is so riches on sea lifes in all kindls of wildlifes we depent on