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After seven years and $7 billion and a couple of spectacular rig disasters and several flotillas of protesting kayaks and people rappelling off a bridge and the rest of it, shell did finally get up to the arctic, and they drilled in the arctic. and what they found was bubkes. a couple of weeks ago shell announced that the company, having found bubkes, was going to give up. after all this time and all that money they were giving up their arctic drilling effort. what they found up there was not wo...

For oil. those rappelling protesters in portland came after the swarms of kayakers in seattle who had tried to block a different shell rig from docking in that city back in may. those kayakers came back to try to block that ship again in june when it was leaving seattle to go up to alaska. shell oil worked for seven years, they built $7 billion trying to figure out how to drill offshore for oil in what is basically uncharted territory off the northern coast of alaska up in the arctic. in august ...

He became the first sitting president to travel above the arctic circle. he went there specifically to highlight the effects of climate change and to talk about his administrations efforts to combat it. but he did that right after approving drilling the arctic for oil. heres the thing. after seven years and $7 billion and a couple of spectacular rig disasters and several flotillas of protesting kayaks and people rappelling off a bridge and the rest of it, shell did finally get up to the arctic, ...

Speeches including powerful remarks he gave to a joint meeting of congress. hillary clinton, democratic presidential front-runner, came out against the keystone xl pipeline. and china, the biggest polluter on the planet, announced it will adopt a cap and trade program to limit carbon emissions. today another stunning headline. shell announces it will stop its massively controversial bid to drill in the alaskan arctic, years-long endeavor costing $7 billion. thats billion with a "b." shell says i...

Remarks he gave to a joint meeting of congress. hillary clinton, democratic presidential front-runner, came out against the keystone xl pipeline. and china, the biggest polluter on the planet, announced it will adapt a cap and trade program to limit carbon emissions. today another stunning headline. shell announces it will stop its massively controversial bid to drill in the alaskan arctic, years-long endeavor costing $7 billion. thats billion with a b. shell says it ended exploration for the fo...

Fabrication used to retard our production in this country. those people need jobs. >> i have been working with people at port arthur their biggest request is to have more oil jobs. thats what the pipeline would bring. >> harry olson national black chamber of commerce doubts concerns about environmental justice are sincere. >> i dont think our epa merchandi administrator jackson is rolling over at night thinking about the poor blacks in port arthur texas. >> they think the obama administration em...

Fabrication used to retard our production in this country. those people need jobs. >> i have been working with people at port arthur their biggest request is to have more oil jobs. thats what the pipeline would bring. >> harry olson national black chamber of commerce doubts concerns about environmental justice are sincere. >> i dont think our epa merchandi administrator jackson is rolling over at night thinking about the poor blacks in port arthur texas. >> they think the obama administration em...

Fabrication used to retard our production in this country. those people need jobs. >> i have been working with people at port arthur their biggest request is to have more oil jobs. thats what the pipeline would bring. >> harry olson national black chamber of commerce doubts concerns about environmental justice are sincere. >> i dont think our epa merchandi administrator jackson is rolling over at night thinking about the poor blacks in port arthur texas. >> they think the obama administration em...

Production in this country. those people needs jobs. >> i have been working with port arthur and their biggest pride their biggest request is to have more high tan oil jobs. this is what the keystone pipeline would bring. >> the president of the national black chamber of commerce doubts concerns about environ pment tal justice are sincere. >> i dont think that our epa administrator jackson is turning over at night thinking about the four blacks and port arthur texas. >> david vitter thinks the o...

Production in this country. those people needs jobs. >> i have been working with port arthur and their biggest pride their biggest request is to have more high tan oil jobs. this is what the keystone pipeline would bring. >> the president of the national black chamber of commerce doubts concerns about environ pment tal justice are sincere. >> i dont think that our epa administrator jackson is turning over at night thinking about the four blacks and port arthur texas. >> david vitter thinks the o...