How Obama Helped Authorize Shell’s Drilling the Arctic Pratap Chatterjee President Barack Obama personally helped Shell obtain authorization to drill for oil in Alaska, according to a new article in the New York Times. This comes a day afer activists launched two reports on the environemental impact of the drilling plans at the company’s annual meeting in the Hague.

Protestor dressed as Grim Reaper outside Shell annual meeting in London. Photo: rikki (indymedia). Used under Creative Commons license.