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Washington, August 18, 2015, 01:42 – REGNUM The Administration of the President of the United States on August 17 issued by the company Royal Dutch Shell final approval for drilling operations in the Arctic to search for oil and gas, said the agency Reuters.
The drilling will take place in the oil zone of the Chukchi Sea off the coast of northern Alaska. On the exploration of the Arctic Shell has spent about $ 7 billion. According to US authorities, in Artik is concentrated about 20% of the undiscovered oil and gas reserves in the world.
Resolution drilling Administration Barack Obama has given two weeks after the president presented a plan to combat climate change until 2030. In his speech, Obama called climate change a major threat for future generations. Media noted that the decision of the White House administration threatens to conflict with environmentalists who had previously supported the measures announced by the head of state.
Activity Shell in the Arctic welcomes the active opposition of environmentalists. Since the end of July a group of Greenpeace activists in Portland blocked owned by the icebreaker Fennica equipment for oil in the Chukchi Sea.
A month earlier, the activists tried to stop a floating oil platform Shell, which was heading from Seattle to study fields Arctic Ocean.
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