Royal Dutch Shell launched an extraordinary preemptive legal strike Wednesday against opponents of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, filing suit against more than a dozen environmental organizations. The L.A. Times has it here…
Below is text from the Sierra Club’s site. It’s good to see them use their big money against big money.
We just found out that Shell Oil is suing the Sierra Club and several other environmental organizations over Shell’s plans to drill in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas — the Polar Bear Seas — of America’s Arctic this summer.
An oil spill in the Arctic Ocean would be a disaster. The nearest Coast Guard station is 1,000 miles away, making clean-up from an oil spill even more challenging than it was after the BP disaster in the Gulf.
But Shell doesn’t care, and they won’t stop until they have their way. But with your help we can stop them.
Sign our petition and stand up for the Polar Bear Seas:
