Clinton Breaks With Obama on Arctic Drilling

Hillary Clinton has made her position on Arctic drilling clear.

The exploration was given the green light by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement after Shell produced the needed equipment called a capping stack, which would help prevent a possible oil spill. That season was plagued with legal and logistical troubles and was capped by the grounding of a Shell drill ship, the Kulluk, which the company later deemed to be damaged too badly to be worth repairing.

Environmental groups were quick to praise Clinton for voicing her dissent with the Obama administration’s decision.

Back in May, when his decision was first indicated, the president justified it by arguing that it would be impossible to abandon fossil fuels until the transition to clean energy sources was finally accomplished.

She is facing an unexpectedly robust challenge from liberal Senator Bernie Sanders, an avid environmental defender who in May wrote Obama urging against approval of Arctic drilling.

The choice on Monday procured broadly used chargesfees from environmentalists, though professionals said President Barack Obama had little ability to quit Shell from searching as it had procured lease terms through the administration of former Republican President George Randomurl.

Shell just isn’t releasing a timetable for its drilling program.

However, as the AP, Discovery News, and other media outlets pointed out, environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club oppose the awarding of the permits and the drilling as a whole, claiming that the industrial activity will harm native creatures such as polar bears, walrus, and whales that are already being threatened due to rising temperatures and sea ice loss.

Obama, who is to visit Alaska later this month, said he is mindful of the dangers of offshore drilling, particularly given the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

“We applaud Secretary Clinton for standing up for what science, the will of the American people and common sense demand”.

I think we should not risk the potential catastrophes that could come about from accidents in looking for more oil in one of the few remaining pristine regions of the world.

Bush said energy revolution should be embraced to lower prices and create jobs at home.

“Hillary Clinton got it right on the Arctic”, she said.