The Stream

#ShellNo: The Arctic oil battle

Threats of catastrophic climate change rile activists opposed to Arctic oil exploration.

Drilling for oil in the Arctic? “Shell no!” That’s what activists are telling the Shell oil company, which wants to tap the estimated 15 billion barrels of undiscovered oil off the coast of Alaska. Conditions are so treacherous, an oil spill is highly likely. And environmentalists warn pulling oil out of the Arctic will cause catastrophic climate change. So why do it? We discuss Tuesday at 1930GMT.

On today’s episode, we speak with: 

Kshama Sawant @cmkshama
Seattle City Council Member
seattle.gov/council/sawant

Charisse Millett @RepMillett
Majority Leader, Alaska House of Representatives
charissemillett.com

Glen Hiemstra @glenhiemstra
Futurist
futurist.com

Radford Keithley @bgkeithley
Blogger, “Thoughts on Alaska Oil & Gas”
bgkeithley.com