Shell Oil Lambastes Odd EPA Denial on Drilling

After spending nearly $4 billion exploring, Shell Oil has been told it cannot start drilling for an estimated 27 billion gallons in the country’s most remote place — because a boat it uses might pollute the air. The Environmental Protection Agency’s appeals board denied permission for the Anglo-Dutch company to drill in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northern coast, Fox News reports.

Shell did not take emissions from an icebreaking vessel into consideration when calculating so-called greenhouse gases from the project, the board said.

The closest human habitation to the proposed drilling site is the native Alaskan village of Kaktovik, with a population of 245, 70 miles away.

The oil company slammed the decision and renewed calls to stop EPA interference in drilling decisions.

“We think the issues were really not major and clearly not impactful for the communities we work in,” said Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby.

Shell did not take emissions from an icebreaking vessel into consideration when calculating so-called greenhouse gases from the project, the board said.

How much CO2 and pollution does the EPA generate "protecting the environment"?

The calculation should include the CO2 generated by all employee commutes as well as any CO2 generated as a result of making more money on average than people of the same credential in the general public.

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Karl Coplan
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Professor Coplan is co-director of the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University. Eight years prior to joining the Pace faculty, he practiced land use and environmental litigation in New York City with the firm Berlet, Kiss & Case. Professor Coplan’s career in private practice includes numerous environmental and civil rights cases on behalf of citizens groups and plaintiffs. Two such cases were Houston v. City of Cocoa, which applied federal environmental review laws to federally financed municipal redevelopment activities designed to displace a minority community, and County of Westchester v. Town of Greenwich, which established that an airport could not cut trees on neighboring properties under a theory of prescriptive rights. Before entering private practice, he clerked for The Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States, and The Honorable Leonard I. Garth, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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So what do these libturds in the EPA think the owner of the icebreaker is going to do next winter? I suspect he is going to break ice with it...not saying just saying.

Then the idiots wonder why the oil speculators keep thinking that the supply of oil is going down. Go figure.
Ohaha you are a real piece of work and sadily half of America is too stupid to figure it out!

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