Arctic Drilling: News Releases

October 12, 2009  NOAA RAISES RED FLAGS ON AGGRESSIVE OFFSHORE DRILLING PLAN — Exclusion Zones, Buffers and Oil Spill Protections Would Scale Back Lease Schedule

October 1, 2009  DON’T EXPECT NEW MARINE SANCTUARIES UNDER OBAMA — NOAA Chief Says No Plans to Even Begin Considering New Ocean Reserves

November 11, 2008  PROBE DEMANDED INTO SHUTDOWN OF BP ALASKA OIL SPILL CASE — Senior EPA Agent Charges Criminal Investigation Truncated and Fines Slashed

August 13, 2008  REVOLVING DOOR WOES MOUNT AT FEDERAL MINERALS AGENCY — Following Guilty Plea MMS Director Warns Workers to Expect More Shoes to Drop

May 20, 2008  SHELL’S REVOLVING DOOR SWINGS U.S. ARCTIC DRILLING PROGRAM — Oil Company Grabs Top Agency Managers to Push What They Used to Regulate

May 15, 2008  U.S. TRUSTING OIL COMPANIES TO SAFEGUARD ARCTIC WILDLIFE — Industry Permit Plans Not Subjected to Required Peer-Review or Monitoring

April 10, 2008  U.S. OFFSHORE LEASING PREMISED ON FUTURE OF CHEAP OIL — Planning Assumes $30 a Barrel Oil to Minimize Potential Environmental Impacts

March 20, 2008  OIL DEAL FOR ALASKA WILDLIFE REFUGE ON FAST TRACK — Yukon Flats Land Exchange Tied to Oil Development but No Time for Appraisals

February 19, 2008  BOWHEAD WHALE IMPERILED BY ARCTIC DRILLING PLANS — Scientific Warnings on Oil Spills and Seismic Noise Disregarded to Speed Lease Sales

February 13, 2008  ARCTIC OCEAN OIL REVIEWS SOFT-PEDALED EXXON VALDEZ — Oil Spill Dangers to Wildlife Minimized to Keep Lease Sales on Schedule

February 4, 2008  LEAKED E-MAILS MAY SINK ARCTIC OFFSHORE LEASE SALES — Officials Scramble to Suppress Scientific Dissent over Bush Arctic Oil Initiative

January 24, 2008  INVASIVE SPECIES THREAT FROM ARCTIC OFFSHORE DRILLING IGNORED — Interior Purged Scientific Concerns about Introduction of Exotics in Arctic Waters

January 21, 2008  INTERIOR STIFLES POLAR BEAR PROTECTIONS FROM ARCTIC DRILLING — Listing Delay Blocks Safeguards Urged by Scientists Contrary to Agency Testimony

January 17, 2008  INTERIOR WITHHOLDING KEY DOCUMENTS ON ARCTIC DRILLING — Shell Plans for LNG and Tanker Traffic in Chukchi Sea Barred from Lease Review