Obama: no drilling in the Arctic

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Oct.16, 2015

 Washington counterorder. Drilling for oil and gas off Alaska will be “frozen”, “at least for the next 18 months.”

Drilling for oil and gas off Alaska will be “frozen”, “at least for the next 18 months.” After the maxiflop Royl Dutch Shell, that after spending $ 7 billion has rescinded any exploration project offshore Alaska, because of oil and gas there are less than expected or at least not currently affordable costs , the Obama administration has decided to revoke the licenses.
Sally Jewell, Interior Minister, that the United States deals with mineral resources, has canceled two licenses and do not grant other. The first two would last, the first until 2017 in the Beaufort Sea, the second up to 2020 in the Chukchi Sea.