And speaking of dangerous drilling, earlier this month the Pew Environment Group released a detailed report that explains why the government and the industry do not have adequate abilities to deal with a blowout and spill in the Arctic Seas.
If you're an educator and your place of employment does not practice these drills, speak out immediately.
"For the most part, I would view these as self-inflicted wounds," said Matt Pitzarella, a spokesman for Range Resources, a drilling company, speaking about the industry generally.
"I don't want to be a poster girl for [the anti-austerity movement]," the former child star said that month, but that is exactly what she has become – appearing at Glastonbury with members of Pussy Riot, playing a gig outside Shell's headquarters in London to protest Arctic drilling, and speaking frequently at anti-austerity rallies, most recently at the Tory party conference in Manchester.
For many of the 17,000 marines based here, though, the movements of American warships and heavy rotations of night-flight combat drills speak loudly of what may lie ahead.
"He understands how to drill in when speaking to people," Mr. Shore says, and was able to make the videos "emotional," as low-band and jumpy as they are".
In late July, when Ms. Morissette performed in Alaska, she spoke out against drilling in the refuge.
But meanwhile, Shell's web pages speak of Arctic drilling, deep sea wells and unconventional oil: long-term investments that, just like building coalfired power stations, will lock the world into continued use of fossil fuels.
But when Mr. Moorhead, whose second home is in Sullivan County, spoke out against drilling this month at a hearing of the City Council's committee on environmental protection, he was among fewer than two dozen private citizens who showed up and the only one to testify, even though the city has a considerable stake in such drilling north of the city line.
Jim Bob Moffett, McMoran Explorations world renowned geologist, sounded giddy Tuesday when he spoke of the drilling operations of the three partners in the Gulf of Mexico.
