Another Drilling Halt: Your Taxpayer-Funded Regulators at Work for You
...So all significant seafaring activity off the Alaskan coast in this area requires icebreaking services virtually all year. Shell isn’t the only economic actor contracting for icebreaking services. Most commercial maritime traffic operates within 70 miles of the coast – meaning that’s where the icebreakers will be cutting swaths through the ice and emitting their emissions – because that’s where the ice tends to be youngest and thinnest....