This Is Just Too Funny

Can I give a Power Line Green Weenie Award in reverse?  This news item is just too perfect:

Headline: Heavy ice could delay start of Shell Alaska’s Arctic drilling

BY KIM MURPHY

LOS ANGELES TIMES

SEATTLE — The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August, a delay of up to two weeks, Shell Alaska officials said. . .

“We’re seeing multiyear ice that they’ve not seen in such large quantities in over a decade, and it could impact our ability to start the well,” Slaiby said. Of particular concern, he said, is the region of the Chukchi Sea around the company’s Berger Prospect – potentially the crown jewel of the company’s offshore oil inventory – which in normal years would be accessible by mid-July. This year, it may be unreachable until late July or early August.

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