Shell Oil Eco-Pirates Set to Plunder Alaska’s Arctic Ocean (Beaufort Sea)

Shell oil was given permission by the Obama administration to drill three wells offshore in the sensitive, critical habitat of the Arctic Ocean (Beaufort Sea region) on the northern Alaska coast. The extrusion of foreign oil extraction interests in Alaska’s rarefied arctic waters is an example of polyanthroponemia driving the world politicians lemming-like toward the environmental survival global over-heating edge-of-night.

Since the Dutch East Indies revolted throwing off their tribal oppressors (the event is annually celebrated) international natural resource extractors have scrounged the world for new backward places to plunder. Over time, after whales were decimated, and carbon rich crude oil was discovered to be a substance valuable for wasting energy, powering expensive, inefficient SUVs and producing global greenhouse gases, new oil deposits beneath pristine wilderness landscapes awaiting despoilment, drilling, pollution, toxic chemical dumping, unnecessary tramping roads, noise and light pollution, killing of local wildlife for sport, opening of cathouses and corrupting of politicians were sought.

Alaska fits the criteria today as an ecospherically uneducated people unaware of the encroaching doom of Gaia poised by ecospheric oil despoilers wasting the oil on riotous foreign banking deposits opportune for purchasing political influence and increasing the acidity of world oceans killing its algae.

Spooky political action at a distance is a result of dark pool; computer guided trading transfer beyond public review even with a Cray super computer and splices into fiber optic routing stations. Concentrated global capital means concentrated global political corruption. Shell is one of the planets most rich extraction organizations.

Like oil fume-intoxicated cormorants staggering atop a bouncing fuel oil barge, local peoples react like pinballs on a fire warped plastic 4-dimensional slope to the development flames of powerful global oil corporations killing the hopes of rational, sustainable, alternative energy powered well insulated economic development with liberty and justice for all. Releases of carbon dioxide from burning tundra and the confusion of narwhales with engine and drilling noise are subtle possibilities of increase hyper-exploitation of chthonic resources.

If Shell does exploit Alaskan or Federal oil along the arctic littoral it should be required to pay for construction of a new M.I.T. quality scientific and arts college addition at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for Gaia research contributing 100 billion dollars to start compensating for its ecologically deleterious influence.

All high latitude drilling worldwide should pay a 90% tax for Gaia geo-engineering research and development to defeat the destruction wrought by corporate oil drilling wraiths. Shell oil is a significant environmental subversive sapping the Earth’s resources, leaving disaster in its wake as in its oil spills in the Niger River delta. It may issue public apologies or provide inadequate compensation to victims of its oil disasters, shift blame to the poor and deny its responsibility; yet private individuals that perpetrate equivalent environmental crimes would not be likely to get off so easy. If Shell oil makes a Deepwater Horizon or Exxon Valdez sort of spill they make expect to get a Judge Holland to adjudicate their case. Shell has said that it will seek to keep its Nigerian spill litigation out of British Courts and in Nigeria where they can have much influence since they provide a lot of cash as well as oil spills and social chaos to select people and locales.

Perhaps litigation against offenders perpetrating oil spills that are transnational oil corporations could be heard in a special world court as an option for poor nations with easy to corrupt judiciaries. With quant stock and securities trading transnational corporations find speed of light dark pool bribery of foreign officials of nations with weak S.E.C. oversight simple. Who would notice in country A if someone’s relative in country B has a trading account that made a profit from a dark pool temporal short selling of holdings in country C if the poor country’s global trading integrity surveillers have insufficient Supercomputers and analysts to monitor millions of trades and account transactions every day that might concern their own judiciary through foreign relatives?

Shell, BP and Exxon might be more accountable for damages to a national or world environment before an international court for environmental crimes against individuals, nations and humanity. The Special Environmental Court should not be at The Hague or Rotterdam where Shell may think it would get special treatment. Zurich Switzerland might be a good place to try environmental crimes by world corporate environmental perps-for it may survive the desertification growing like a dark cloud of doom over much of the Earth in the hot decades ahead produced by burning fossil fuel and keeping cattle, sheep and swine for food products.

Oil gives up 1,822.0 pounds of carbon dioxide per Mwhr of energy it produces. There are numerous far less dangerous to world temperature heating increase resources available.

The world’s atmosphere already is far over stressed with carbon dioxide, the oceans ability to absorb and sequester it nearly used up, and there isn’t even a very high progressive tax on drilling offshore- as there should be- to discourage it-since it is an environmentally high risk region especially for the Arctic.

Of course the only reason for the activity is for cash profit-no rational soul would offer the opinion that establishing oil wells and offshore drilling islands, burning more fuel and emitting more greenhouse gases in the high Arctic would is good for the ecosphere of the Earth.

In as little as 15 years there may be no summer polar ice cap; sea level may continue to increase, acidification of the world’s oceans probably will increase and make much of the oceans about void of life. Holland may find its dikes overcome by rising sea level and hurricane surges drowning their country.

The environmental effects of burning so much oil on global heating may be irreversible and the world temperature may rise 9 degrees and stay there by the year 2100 according to some scientists.