EPA vs. SHELL

I would not want to be in the EPA's shoes, with the notice of fine it as sent SHELL, for what the EPA officials believe was excessive air pollution from SHELL's short-lived exploration attempt last year up in Alaska, offshore in the Chukchi and Beaufort. A venture doomed from the get-go culminating with SHELL's $billion$ dollar blunder, the grounding of the Kulluk off of Kodiak Island. Look, the SHELL flotilla left Dutch Harbor with contaminated fuel, marine engine gasoline that had too much damn sulfur. Testing of the fuel was required, and back in August the EPA was monitoring the testing. Sample after sample proved convincing that this flotilla was stuck and would never get the “Green” light to “Go North”. Then like magic, the problem went away. There was no way in hell that all the contaminated fuel from so many boats part of the exploration flotilla could be offloaded then tanks refreshed with the legal stuff, as Dutch Harbor does not have that kind of infrastructure – its a fishing town! Yes, the flotilla was allowed to sail with fuel tanks holding marine gasoline high in sulfur, no doubt about it. That sulfur fouled the pollution abating equipment, it fouled the marine engines, the reason the Avig lost its grip on the Kulluk. This is not rocket science, but common sense evidence. Contaminated fuel is what caused the pollution and only because somebody with “power” allowed SHELL to sail north with the contaminated fuel. As the window of opportunity for the exploration season was closing in, it became the proverbial “Do or Die” mandate. Had SHELL been banned from sailing north, it would have doomed this entire Arctic Ocean exploration frenzy as this was the “Litmus Test”. And the EPA knew all about the contaminated fuel, I have the e-mails! But the EPA had been under scrutiny, by Alaska's D.C. Delegation, so now we see the outcome! Bottom-line, Alaska's delegation corrupt way & means to “bully” the EPA away from its duties will allow every damn environmental group and oversight group to now “formidably excite” a ban upon oil and gas exploration forever in the Chukchi & Beaufort. It will mean thousands of jobs lost, not to mention a loss of income from leases and resource royalty. Remember this the next time you visit that voting booth!

Brought to you by the MickPrick Show, where everyone is a victim this “True” information as posted on the Alaska Chinook blog, the posting that Alaskan democrats and republicans refuse to read, as an independent voice scares the “crap” out of them!