Minerals Management Service
Sep 8 2008, Rahul Bhandari

A U.S. federal appeals court has thwarted Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s plan to drill the deepest offshore Alaskan oil well amid the concern of project’s adverse effect on bowhead whales and other animals.

A federal court in San Francisco accepted the...

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