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Judge Halts Oil and Gas Development in Colorado Proposed Wilderness

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Ruling protects wilderness qualities and rare plants from harmful drilling
August 6, 2007

 

Denver, CO — The federal government must stop gas development and leasing in a Colorado proposed wilderness area until it considers an environmentally sensitive drilling technique and the impacts of development on rare species, a U.S. district court judge has ruled (8/6/2007).Judge Marcia […]

Appeals Court Calls Time Out on Controversial Arctic Ocean Oil Drilling

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Stay temporarily halts Shell’s offshore plans in Beaufort Sea
July 20, 2007

 

San Francisco, CA — Late yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit entered a stay temporarily halting Shell Offshore Inc.’s plans to drill several exploratory oil wells in the middle of the bowhead whale migration corridor.”This is a great relief to […]

Alaskan Wildlife-Rich Coastal Land Eroding Because of Disappearing Ice.

From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Alaskan Wildlife-Rich Coastal Land Eroding Because of Disappearing Ice.
By Yereth Rosen, Reuters, July 2, 2007.
“A swath of marshy, wildlife-rich coastal land in Arctic Alaska being eyed for oil drilling is eroding rapidly probably because of the disappearance of sea ice that used to protect it from the ocean waves, according to […]