From the AP:
Shell Alaska has dropped plans to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea this year and will concentrate on obtaining permits for the 2012 season, company Vice President Pete Slaiby said Thursday.
The recent remand of air permits issued by the Environmental Protection Agency was the final driver behind the decision, Slaiby said at a news conference…
And its all just tied up on absurd environmentalist worries – which include that the cold, inclement weather causes risks while at the same time the project would further stress animals feeling the effects of global warming…which is it? It can’t be both – unless it is neither, which is almost certainly the case. What the environmentalists want is no drilling – so they’ll just throw up whatever objections they can knowing that liberal Democrats in DC will do their bidding.
800 jobs will be lost over this – as well as losing the chance to lessen our dependence upon foreign oil. This action, in its effect, is anti-American and those who caused this should be ashamed of themselves. If they really felt themselves to be American, they would feel that shame…but I doubt they’ll lose any sleep over it. In fact, they might even feel a bit of delight in that they’ve further hobbled America and made us just a little bit weaker in the world, in keeping with a general liberal belief that it is bad when America is predominant.
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