Drilling | Alaska Wilderness League

Arctic Drilling For ‘Extreme Oil’ Is Risky; Letting Shell Do The Work Is Reckless

League Staff | May 14, 2015

(This article originally appeared in The Guardian.) America’s Arctic Ocean belongs to all of us. The Beaufort and Chukchi Seas provide habitat for countless species of wildlife. This is one of the most unique marine ecosystems in the world, home to the entire population of US polar bears. Many of...

Seattleites Come Together To Draw The Line And Say ‘Shell No’ To Arctic Drilling

League Staff | May 5, 2015

As most of you probably remember, this January, behind closed doors, the Port of Seattle agreed to let Shell Oil use Seattle as home base for its Arctic drilling operations – despite Shell’s terrible safety record, the risk of a major Arctic oil spill, and devastating impact it would have...

It’s Time to Take Arctic Drilling Off the Table

League Staff | April 6, 2015

(This blog first appeared on Huffington Post Green.) Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior swung the door wide open to drilling in the remote waters of the iconic Arctic Ocean when it announced that it was reaffirming controversial Bush-era leases for the Chukchi Sea – a lease sale referred...

Add Your Voice: Tell The Administration It Is Too Risky To Drill In Our Arctic Waters

League Staff | March 20, 2015

In January 2015, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released a draft of its Outer Continental Shelf five-year plan; this plan will guide oil and gas development in areas including the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean from 2017-2022. Unfortunately, in this plan DOI included three new lease...