[JohnBrowdie]

someone just paid for the north wing of the BHO presidential library.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Interior Department decision is a devastating blow to environmentalists, who have pressed the Obama administration to reject proposals for offshore Arctic drilling. Environmentalists say that a drilling accident in the icy and treacherous Arctic waters could have far more devastating consequences than the deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010, when an oil rig explosion killed 11 men and sent millions of barrels of oil spewing into the water.

This is Shell, you greenie weenies, not Bullsh*t Petroleum!

[Sacajaweau]

Probably the Indian vote....and a finger to Canada.

[thackney]

Shell - Chukchi Sea Exploration Plan
http://www.boem.gov/shell-chukchi/

[thackney]

Shell projects in arctic conditions
http://www.shell.com/global/future-energy/arctic/shell-in-the-arctic.html

[rktman]

Lucy, football, Charlie Brown?

[clearcarbon]

Why is this OK but ANWR is not?

[ColdOne]

'conditional'......What does that mean?.......... But the administration contends that as long as Shell passes a final set of permit reviews, it can proceed to drill this summer. .............must pass final set of permit reviews. So not a done deal?

[dangus]

The Dutch company. Still no Americans allowed there?

[dangus]

Drilling in the Arctic is fine, as long as its the Dutch and Arabs doing it.

“Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational “oil major” is a 50/50 partner with the Saudi Arabian government-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in Motiva Enterprises, a refining and marketing joint venture which owns and operates three oil refineries on the Gulf Coast of the United States.”

[4Liberty]

How much did they give to DNC?

[punknpuss]

Someone’s getting a fat payoff for this.

[itsahoot]

We own the Arctic do we?

[WKUHilltopper]

I thought the Rooskies claimed the Arctic?

[RicocheT]

This approval comes late and at a time when cheaper oil prices mean Shell won’t do the drilling. the request came when $90+ oil would pay for drilling in the harsh weather area. Now, at minus 490 oil prices, it makes drilling unprofitable.

The “approval” is meaningless, just as Obama’s presidency is bogus.