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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 [...]