Coast Guard shifts vessel from fighting cocaine smuggling to keeping watch on Arctic Oil Drilling, Allgov.com reports
The Obama’s administration decision to allow Royal Dutch Shell to conduct oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean has forced the U.S. Coast Guard to divert ships to the region, including one that had been deployed to catch drug smugglers in the Caribbean.
To protect both the environment and Shell’s drilling crews working in the dangerous Chukchi Sea, the Coast Guard has had to deploy five ships to the Arctic. Among the ships is the Waesche, which normally patrols the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico looking for drug traffickers.
According to Reuters, the Coast Guard was forced to make these moves in order for Shell, which is conducting exploratory oil drilling, to meet “its environmental and safety commitments” .Admiral Paul Zukunft, commandant of the Coast Guard, told Reuters the ship deployments represented an “opportunity cost” for his agency. “It means you do less somewhere else in order to supplement activity in the Arctic,” he said.
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