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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you support these new drilling permits for Shell to drill off the Alaskan coast?
Seems pretty stupid to me.
http://www.statesman.com/business/obama-administration-oks-some-oil-drilling-near-alaska-2446935.html
http://ecowatch.org/2012/shell-begin-arctic-drilling/
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/30/2977201/obama-to-let-shell-drill-in-arctic.html
http://current.com/technology/93889210_obama-ignores-huge-dangers-in-approving-arctic-drilling-permit-for-shell.htm

CaliforniaPeggy
(147,959 posts)It's way worse than stupid.
It's criminal.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Tikki
(14,484 posts)But I am just a California housewife who is against any oil drilling.
Tikki
Autumn
(44,000 posts)No one in their right mind should support them.
Smilo
(1,932 posts)and hell no.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)another political hit for gas prices right now. They are the highest they have ever been for Labor day weekend.
Election year politics driving policy. What can you do?
MoonRiver
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Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)air and water should have already been tested for a baseline of ANY damages the drilling causes. That includes stressed wildlife populations.
And those places that used to be exposed land 15,000 years ago are an archaeologists dream, any sampling of seabed should be shared across the sciences. Also very gold rich and rare earth rich, no reason only the oil should be the main interests.