Murkowski calls Shell pull-out a ‘kick in the gut’

Shell’s Fennica vessel. Photo: John Ryan/KUCB.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski says news that Shell is pulling out of the Alaska Arctic hit her hard.
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“Heartsick. Kick in the gut. Just really devastated,” she said, speaking as she walked through the Capitol on her way to a Senate vote Monday.
Murkowski says dry holes are a fact of oil exploration, but she blames the federal government for curtailing Shell, and for frustrating Alaskan efforts to portray itself a