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Salazar announces'high-level assessment' of drilling season

...was found with safety deficiencies, and Shell's oil spill response vessel barge, which could not obtain certification...drill into petroleum-bearing rock because Shell's oil spill response barge was unable to achieve certification in time...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-01-09/salazar-announceshigh-level-assessment-
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EPA issues Shell air pollution violation notices

...special attention to challenges that Shell encountered with the Kulluk and the Noble Discoverer, as well as Shell's oil spill response vessel barge.The barge could not obtain certification in time for what was to be a longer drilling season.Salazar...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-01-13/epa-issues-shell-air-pollution-violatio
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Drill vessels to be sent from Alaska to Asia

...special attention to challenges that Shell encountered with the Kulluk, with the Discoverer and with the company's oil spill response barge, which could not obtain certification in time for the drilling season.Salazar announced the 60-day review...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-02-13/drill-vessels-be-sent-alaska-asia
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Kodiak cleanup continues in ship grounding

...corrugated containers bearing the name of Alaska Chadux clustered on the St. Paul Harbor spit. Chadux is a private oil spill response group in Western Alaska, and the containers were among those it has stationed in Kodiak to respond to an Exxon Valdez-like...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-06-13/kodiak-cleanup-continues-ship-grounding
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Arctic drilling creeps forward now, and in 5 years

...the damage.Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith said opposition groups are purposely mischaracterizing Shell's oil spill response plan. The plan does not claim Shell can clean up 90 percent of an oil spill, he said."We say in our plan we...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-07-02/arctic-drilling-creeps-forward-now-and-
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Vote no on 2

...the local community. These hearings covered topics from hunting cabins on the YK Delta, tramways in Juneau and oil spill response plans in Prince William Sound. I cannot recall an instance when the costal management council did not uphold the...

http://juneauempire.com/letters/2012-08-26/vote-no-2
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Shell begins petroleum drilling off Alaska coast

...allow a blowout preventer to be positioned below the seafloor, protecting it from ice scraping the bottom.The oil spill response barge remains in Bellingham, Wash., and is expected to undergo sea trials over the weekend, he said.Shell's...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-09-10/shell-begins-petroleum-drilling-alaska-
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Shell halts Chukchi Sea drilling

...Dutch Shell PLC was given permission last month to begin preliminary work on an exploratory well. The company's oil spill response barge has not been certified but the company was authorized to drill pilot holes that do not descend into oil reservoirs...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-09-10/shell-halts-chukchi-sea-drilling
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Prof takes students up-close to fisheries

...William Sound and the Upper Cook Inlet. He worked aboard ADF&G's research vessel, the Pandalus, and captained an oil spill response vessel in the Beaufort Sea. He earned a bachelor of science in wildlife and fisheries science from Texas A&M University...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-10-08/prof-takes-students-close-fisheries
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Court backs federal approval of Shell's Arctic drilling plans

...conditions, including two that required it to prove its oil spill response capabilities to another federal agency. That agency...inform the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management about its oil spill response plan, the Daily News reported.They contended that...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-05-27/court-backs-federal-approval-shells-arc
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