Shell has given up on Arctic Ocean drilling, but Big Oil still wants to get into the Arctic Refuge

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By Krista LangloisSep 30, 2015, 7:29 pm150 pts
On Sept. 28, Shell captured national attention when it announced that the exploratory well it drilled in hopes of extracting the first barrels of oil from Alaska’s Chukchi Sea was a bust. The company didn’t strike enough oil to make further exploration economically viable. Effective immediately, it’s…

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