oil spill response plan

Why Shell’s spill response plan is a dog's breakfast

Posted by ben - 21 February 2012 at 6:53pm - 2 Comments

While we’re Tweeting from the rooftop at London's National Gallery (the banner is now down and Paula Bear is having a wander), we thought you might like to find out a bit more about Shell’s spill response plan – the document which apparently explains what the company will do to block a ruptured well and save this unique Arctic region from catastrophe. 

Tweeting from the rooftops: Shell, keep out of the Arctic

Posted by bex - 21 February 2012 at 5:00pm - 33 Comments

It’s official. On Friday, Shell got a step closer to drilling for oil in our planet’s last wild ocean - the Arctic. 

The company’s oil spill response plan for the Chukchi Sea off Alaska was given the all clear by US authorities, even though it’s a work of almost complete fantasy.

BP oil spill response plans for deep water well at North Uist

Publication date:  12 October, 2011

Key pages from the BP oil spill response plan for the deep water drilling at North Uist.

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