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The Obama administration recently gave its preliminary approval of a plan by Shell to drill four exploratory wells off the North Slope of Alaska this coming September. What is alarming about this is that just last week some 55,000 gallons of oil poured into the North Sea from a leaky pipeline operated by Royal Dutch Shell. This was about 100 miles off Scotland. How about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that took several months to contain? The problem we stand to face with allowing Sh...   >>>

The Obama administration recently gave its preliminary approval of a plan by Shell to drill four exploratory wells off the North Slope of Alaska this coming September. What is alarming about this is that just last week some 55,000 gallons of oil poured into the North Sea from a leaky pipeline operated by Royal Dutch Shell. This was about 100 miles off Scotland. How about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that took several months to contain? The problem we stand to face with allowing Shell to set up its wells is that should there be a blowout, we just don’t seem to have the in the infrastructure, the knowledge or the experience to avert a disaster or cope with it if it occurs.