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Shell Abandons Oil Exploration in Alaska but Stays in the Arctic

By Malte Humpert | TAI In The News
September 29, 2015
New Scientist
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Malte Humpert weighs in on how Shell’s termination of its 2015 Alaska exploration project will affect Arctic oil landscape.

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