Shell’s offshore exploration plan for the drilling multiple exploration wells over 3 years in the Beaufort sea ran up against another set back today after the 9th circuit court upheld an earlier ruling saying that the Minerals Management Service did not take a “hard look” at impacts to bowhead whales, other marine mammals and the centuries old subsistence practices of the North Slope Inupiaq people.
Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage
