How Seattle Agreed to Stash a Climate Bomb in Its Seaport

How Seattle Agreed to Stash a Climate Bomb in Its Seaport

by Sydney Brownstone



For months, secret negotiations with the Royal Dutch Shell oil company had been under way at the Port of Seattle, whose slogan is "Where a sustainable world is headed." The aim of these negotiations: find a winter home for the $234 billion company's Arctic drilling fleet. Then, on January 8, the Seattle Times broke the news: A two-ye