Obama will put a stop to it, one way or another. The EPA, the Energy Department, the Commerce Department—someone will find a way to stop it even where it is already developed—just as they stopped drilling in the Gulf and more recently development of that well an the island off the Alaska coast.
In that last case, everything was complete but the final details, but they refused to permit an ICEBREAKER to operate off the coast, because it might bring pollution to an Eskimo village many miles away.
They didn’t refuse to permit an icebreaker. The icebreaker was left off of Shell’s permit application. They have resubmitted it since.
Shell loses Alaska air-quality permit appeal
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/12/oil-shell-idUSN1114246920110212
Feb 11, 2011
Shell files applications to drill offshore exploration wells
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/052011/oil_sfatdoe.shtml
May 20, 2011