Abigail Ross Hopper is the last person that should be making recommendations about off shore drilling.  She does not know Alaska.  And she has no clue how tough the environment is off the North Slope.

She leads the federal agency that- under a different name- had employees that were taking bribes from Big Oil- in the form of drugs and prostitutes.  The same agency that failed to assert controls that might have prevented BPs massive oil spill in the Gulf.

Imagine what a spill like that would have done to our Arctic waters.  The oil would contaminate the waters, shoreline, and wildlife for generations.  Oil from the Exxon Valdez spill 25 years ago is STILL contaminating the shoreline in PWS.

Off shore oil in Alaska is tax free.  Alaska gets nothing for development six miles off shore.  So Alaska would get all the massive risk, and no revenue.  

Oil can not be cleaned up in broken sea ice. Shell demonstrated continued incompetence in its work in Alaska.