Arctic Drilling: Not Ready for Prime Time
with Royal Dutch Shell representatives after the company’s
brand new $200 million tugboat experienced multiple engine failures while towing Shell’s arctic semisubmersible drilling
rig, the Kulluk, approximately 50 miles south of
Kodiak Island Friday, in 20-foot seas. Rough but not unusual
conditions for the Arctic.
| The tugboat M/V Aiviq towing Shell’s Kulluk drill rig in better times. Photo courtesy gCaptain. |
This is right on the heels of the Coast Guard discovering “several major safety and pollution prevention equipment” deficiencies
on Shell’s other Arctic rig, the Noble Discoverer
drillship.
And remember when the Discoverer went rogue and ran aground in Dutch Harbor back in July?
And Shell crushed their supposed oil spill containment device
“like a beer can” during a field test this summer in water just 120
feet deep?
After having multiple delays getting their oil spill
response vessel to meet Coast Guard standards?
This is a surprising – alarming? – series of missteps, mistakes and
outright failures for a company of Shell’s size, talent, market
cap and ambitions. Especially considering how much time and
money, and political capital, they’ve invested in this
program. But it’s not too late to take a prudent time out to allow a thorough, critical evaluation of whether we are really ready
to drill safely in the Arctic, and respond effectively to oil
spills in that tough environment.
Because if Shell isn’t ready after all this time and effort and investment, then who on earth is?
2013-01-05 05:05:56
Source: http://blog.skytruth.org/2012/12/arctic-drilling-not-ready-for-prime-time.html
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