Yesterday afternoon US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the Obama administration’s plans to lead the world further down the path of Arctic destruction by continuing to feed our addiction to oil.  Despite the enormous opposition, the administration will hold further sales for leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and in what we can only hope won’t become his Titanic moment, Salazar boasted that “there’s not going to be an oil spill.”   Arctic drilling, he went on, is simply another step in our “all of the above” energy strategy. Continue reading →