Arctic Oil Spill Clean-up Impossible - PROVE IT WRONG

A unique icy water oil spill response exercise is planned for Moran Bay at St. Ignace from Monday through Wednesday.

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, oil spill response organizations, Enbridge Energy Partners and several other agencies will test and evaluate several techniques for recovering spilled oil and other hazardous materials from icy waterways.

We know that clean up of an oil spill in the icy waters of the Arctic is impossible - no new technology and no infrastructure - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. So where is SHELL OIL during the above exercise? The U.S. Government has grossly approved Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic in 2012. If there is an oil spill how will it be cleaned up in the remote icy Arctic?

IT WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP - ITS IMPOSSIBLE TODAY

MORE LIKELY THAN NOT - THE GOVERNMENT WILL APPROVE THE USE OF TOXIC DISPERSANT APPLICATION FROM AIRCRAFT WHICH WILL ATTEMPT TO SINK THE OIL OUT OF SIGHT. THE OIL WILL REMAIN IN THE ENVIRONMENT - POLLUTING THE ENVIRONMENT, WILDLIFE AND INHABITANTS.

PLEASE VOTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CHANGE OF ALL ELECTED POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON D.C.


NO MORE IRRESPONSIBLE DRILLING UNTIL NEW OIL SPILL CLEAN UP TECHNOLOGY IS PROVEN.


SHELL OIL - YOU HAVE THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES - PUT THOSE NASA ROCKET ENGINEERS TO GOOD USE - NEW OIL CLEAN UP TECHNOLOGY SO YOU CAN DRILL IN REMOTE REGIONS SAFELY.




Imagine if the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill happened in the Arctic Ocean, Audubon Alaska 6-2-2010



More dangerous drilling
By DP OPINION

Re: “Shell allowed to drill in Arctic,” Jan. 13 business news story.

The Denver Post reported that air permits are approved to allow offshore oil drilling by Shell off the north coast of Alaska. Why?

The Energy Department just reported the U.S. is now exporting more petroleum products than it imports! This dangerous drilling is not about energy independence, but about higher oil company profits selling Alaskan crude overseas.

This area also has extreme weather and sea conditions and the Coast Guard says it has no capacity to do anything about an oil spill off the north coast of Alaska when it occurs. Coast Guard Adm. Robert Papp told Congress that if the Deepwater Horizon disaster was “to happen off the North Slope of Alaska, we’d have nothing” to deal with it. And given the past lies of BP, Exxon and Shell, do we really trust them to tell the truth when they say they will not cause an oil spill?

Ed Talbot, Arvada

This letter was published in the Jan. 22 edition.

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