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  Drilling Towards Disaster: Why U.S. Oil and Gas Expansion Is Incompatible with Climate Limits

  Kelly Trout, January 16, 2019
  At precisely the time in which the world must begin rapidly decarbonizing to avoid runaway climate disaster, the United States is moving further and faster than any other country to expand oil and gas extraction.
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  Arctic drilling ban reveals crucial difference between Obama and Trudeau on climate

  Adam Scott, December 22, 2016
  The Obama and Trudeau announcement of an oil/gas development ban in Arctic/Atlantic waters was huge, but how each country explained it reveals a major rift.

• New report details the climate case against drilling in the Arctic

  David Turnbull, August 13, 2015
  Our new report today details a clear case against drilling for oil in the Arctic ocean based on climate science imperatives. The report shows U.S. Arctic offshore oil should be deemed an “untouchable” fossil fuel reserve by any reasonable measure.

• Oil Change International Response to Latest Shell Arctic Drilling Permit Approval

  David Turnbull, July 22, 2015
  The Obama Administration should put Shell out of its misery. They have wasted billions on the hunt for unburnable carbon and wreaked havoc on everything they come in contact with in their Arctic exploits.
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  #ShellNo! Reflections on Two Weeks of Action.

  Matt Maiorana, May 27, 2015
  Despite receiving approval from the Obama Administration to drill in the Arctic, Shell's ambitions have been thrown into question by everyday people no longer standing idle while Big Oil tramples over local officials, ignores scientists, and propels our planet further towards the climate cliff.

• OCI Response to Conditional Approval of Shell’s 2015 Arctic Drilling Plan

  David Turnbull, May 11, 2015
  Today's decision to rubber stamp Shell’s 2015 Arctic Exploration Plan is yet another example of the dangerous disconnect between our climate imperatives and the Obama administration's energy policy.

• Frozen Future: the gaps in Shell’s Arctic spill response

  Matt Maiorana, April 13, 2015
  Shell is currently moving its drilling rigs to Seattle in anticipation of resuming its US offshore Arctic drilling programme in July. However, it is far from clear that Shell has adequate physical or financial plans to deal with the impacts of a major oil spill in this remote region.

• Frozen Future: Shell and the US Offshore Arctic

  Matt Maiorana, February 18, 2015
  Oil Change International, Greenpeace, and Platform – February 2015 Download Briefing On 29 January 2015, Royal Dutch Shell confirmed that it intends, subject to regulatory approval, to resume its US Arctic drilling programme at a cost for 2015 of at least $1bn. To date, Shell’s Arctic programme has been a failure despite capital expenditure in...
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