It’s official. On Feb. 17, Shell got a step closer to drilling for oil in our planet’s last wild ocean—the Arctic.
The company’s oil spill response plan for the Chukchi Sea off Alaska was given the all clear by U.S. authorities, even though it’s a work of almost complete fantasy.
While Shell prepares to start trashing this stunning wilderness,
putting it at risk of catastrophic oil spills and more melting ice caps
as a result of climate change, its PR people are getting busy. This
evening—Feb. 21—they’ve invited influential guests to an event at the
National Gallery in London, in the hope that those guests will lend the
Shell brand a veneer of respectability.
