Big Oil strikes again

In a debate that has similar environmental overtones to the Alaska drilling discussion, Shell is moving forward with an offshore drilling and pipeline project in the Sakhalin Islands despite claims by scientists, environmentalists not to mention their own studies that the project is causing and will continue to cause severe problems for an endangered whale population and other wildlife. Shell has been dreaming of this drilling project for years and facts be damned, they will move ahead.

Shell is littered with problems ranging from oil reserve re-statements, to conflict in Nigeria (by failing to live up to their end of agreements) and now they are ignoring the environmental problems in Sakhalin and seem OK with killing off a species of whale. And to think Bush wants to give Shell and Big Oil billions in handouts.