Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Lessons from the Elgin | Stop Shell's Arctic drilling



Lessons from the Elgin gas leak: why we must stop Shell's Arctic drilling | Greenpeace Blogs

Blogpost by Bex, Greenpeace UK


Ten days after the leak began, Total is still struggling to contain the gas pouring from its North Sea Elgin platform, citing bad weather as the cause of the delays. Yet, in just 100 days’ time, Shell wants to start drilling for oil in the remote and extreme Arctic environment – claiming it has the technology and the tools to deal with any spill...


full article: Lessons from the Elgin gas leak: why we must stop Shell's Arctic drilling | Greenpeace Blogs

...In the past 30 years, we’ve lost 75 per cent of the Arctic sea ice. Drilling for and burning more fossil fuels in its melting waters is pretty much the last thing we should be doing.

It’s reckless. It’s stupid. It’s plain wrong.

Please help to stop it.



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