Tremors of Anxiety Over Arctic Drilling

New York Times: Edward Itta, a former North Slope Borough mayor, with a skinboat frame near Barrow`s whalebone arch. He says he is beginning to rue some of the concessions he helped negotiate with Shell on its drilling plan. As John Broder and I write in Thursday`s Times, the Obama administration is backing Shell's audacious efforts to open Alaska's Arctic waters to oil drilling. The plan offers the promise of greater national energy security, the thinking goes, and economic benefits for Alaskans. But the...

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