The furor over Port of Seattle's Shell game

Mary Bruno

Mary Bruno Jul 8, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>The furor over Port of Seattle's Shell game</h1>
                <h2><p>It's always fun to see how national media portrays local news. Here's what The New York Times had to say about the ongoing battle over the Port's decision to let Shell park its Arctic oil drilling fleet at our doorstep: "The environmental messaging</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mary-bruno-crosscut-com/">Mary Bruno</a></p> 
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            <p>It's always fun to see how national media portrays local news. Here's what <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/us/oil-company-lease-stirs-revolt-in-green-seattle.html?ref=us">The New York Times had to say</a> about the ongoing battle over the Port's decision to let Shell park its Arctic oil drilling fleet at our doorstep: "The environmental messaging never stops here, whether from a city-owned electric utility that gets nearly 98 percent of its power from sources untainted by carbon (and is not about to let residents forget it) or the fussy garbage collectors who can write tickets for the improper sorting of recyclables. So when a lease was signed allowing Royal Dutch Shell, the petrochemical giant, to bring its Arctic Ocean drilling rigs to the city’s waterfront, the result was a kind of civic call to arms."</p>
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It's always fun to see how national media portrays local news. Here's what The New York Times had to say about the ongoing battle over the Port's decision to let Shell park its Arctic oil drilling fleet at our doorstep: "The environmental messaging never stops here, whether from a city-owned electric utility that gets nearly 98 percent of its power from sources untainted by carbon (and is not about to let residents forget it) or the fussy garbage collectors who can write tickets for the improper sorting of recyclables. So when a lease was signed allowing Royal Dutch Shell, the petrochemical giant, to bring its Arctic Ocean drilling rigs to the city’s waterfront, the result was a kind of civic call to arms."

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By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,