EVERETT -- Despite protests from environmentalists and Seattle city leaders, Royal Dutch Shell is still planning to move its Arctic oil drilling rigs to a Seattle port terminal. One oil rig, the Noble Discoverer, docked in the Port of Everett Tuesday night.
[pdf] Seattle has been a staging point for those seeking to exploit the natural resources of the Alaska region since the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, when the city was the main supply center and departure point for prospectors heading to the gold fields of Alaska and the Yukon. The perception by some Alaskans that Seattle exerted undue influence on the Territory helped motivate their desire fo. OverviewProtests against Arctic drilling began in in 2015 in response to the news that the made an agreement with to berth and at the Port's T. .
In October 2013, Terminal 5's tenant, Eagle Maritime Services, made plans to relocate. The Port of Seattle decided to update T5, and they asked businesses, including , to find temporary uses for that terminal. F. .
On January 13, 2015, the first public meeting North Slope fleet at Terminal 5. On February 9, the lease with Shell was signed by Port of Seattle CEO Ted Fick. When the deal became known, Seattle Mayor.
[pdf] It was made by Hitachi Zosen Sakai Works in Osaka, Japan, and the machine's assembly was completed in Seattle in June 2013. Tunnel boring began on July 30, 2013, with the machine originally scheduled to complete the tunnel in December 2015.OverviewBertha was a 57.5-foot-diameter (17.5 m) built specifically for the 's (WSDOT) project in ,. .
The name Bertha, after Seattle's first female mayor, , was chosen by a panel (that included the Governor and Transportation Secretary) from 150 submissions from kindergarten through 12t.
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