Witness testimony today by Noble’s Offshore Installation Manager Todd Case as he was questioned by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that the Kulluk drill rig -- which Shell attempted to tow across the Gulf of Alaska with a single tow vessel before it broke loose and ran ag
U.S. Representatives Don Young and Doc Hastings have introduced H.R. 1964 in an effort to scrap the Department of the Interior’s recently finalized, comprehensive plan for the western Arctic’s National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the nation’s largest tract of public land.
Gov. Sean Parnell’s plan to ask the Alaska Legislature for $50 million to look for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is incompatible with the reasons the refuge was established, and would cause significant harm to a vital and irreplaceable American landscape.
New draft rules governing hydraulic fracturing on federal lands need to set a good example for states and local governments, according to The Wilderness Society.
The Wilderness Society today praised the federal Bureau of Land Management for releasing its updated Legacy Wells Summary Report and laying out a strategic plan to clean up abandoned oil and gas well sites drilled decades ago by the U.S. Navy and U.S.
The following statement from Dave Alberswerth, senior policy adviser for The Wilderness Society regards a hearing in the House Natural Resources Committee on an upcoming rule governing hydraulic fracturing on federal lands.
The following statement from Dave Alberswerth, senior policy adviser for The Wilderness Society regards S. 761, the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, being voted out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Spanish oil and gas company Repsol announced today that it found oil in three exploration wells located on state lands on the North Slope this past winter.
