Sea Ice delays Shell Alaska drilling

By Robert On July 9, 2012 · 6 Comments

Heavier than expected ice in Arctic waters off Alaska will likely delay until August Shell’s long-anticipated exploration drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, said company spokesman Curtis Smith on Friday.

Sea ice is “the number one reason we won’t be drilling in July,” said Smith. “At this point, we’re looking at the first week of August.”

So much for global warming.

See entire article:
http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article1257797.ece

Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link

6 Responses to Sea Ice delays Shell Alaska drilling

Charles Kropf says:

July 9, 2012 at 4:33 pm

Where’s all the melting ice?
Ron Greer says:

July 10, 2012 at 1:07 am

Sounds familiar somehow, is this not the 2nd year in a row that this has happened.
laurel says:

July 10, 2012 at 5:23 am

oh well done Robert:-) the best laugh in days!
now july is peak summer..and they cant get through the ice?
august , well that leaves very small time frame doesnt it?
as by late september/early oct.. it should be getting colder again?
going to be a LOT of claims left unexplored and going void I think..
Kenneth Lund says:

July 10, 2012 at 12:02 pm

That’s almost all summer long with too much ice ! So much for all the BS on global warming. This is the beginning of an ice age.
Per-David Nygren says:

July 11, 2012 at 1:46 am

I guess a “scientific study” will blame these troublesome, monstrous, non-melting mountains of sea-ice in the Arctic on…….. a global warming.
Neil Love says:

July 11, 2012 at 9:30 am

As we all understand, this expansion of the polar ice has been going on for a few years now, and looks likely to get worse. When I were a boy at school doing A levels in Climate and Geography and Geology, my teacher said that within my lifetime I would live to see the next Ice Age, I did not really believe him. However, after what we are now experiencing his prediction might yet become a reality. I think that the company thinking to drill for oil in such high latitude will just have to wait around for about 90,000 years for the next warm interglacial to come on. Indeed all of human history has sprung into existence during the past 10,000 years of warm interglacial. The 100,000 year Milankovich Cycle is telling us plain and simple that our time is up. Now is a good time to buy some warm winter togs.