to an area that would cause the least amount of environmental damage and cut it loose. it ran aground off the coast of alaska monday night. there is a real concern that is happening now? reporter: there is a spill response team that is preparing a plan and mobilizing equipment in the event that a spill should happen. a spokesperson for the team tells us aerial pictures show no signs of a leak. an official from shell says the rig recently had $292 million of improvements done. it is built with reinforced steel. that is three inches thick. the habitat is home to harbor seals, sea lie on and salmon and at least two ending danered species. the top dell catt on the resources committee ed markey is sharing his concern with this statement. oil companies keep saying they can conquer the arctic but the arctic keeps disagreeing with the oil companies. drilling expansion could prove disasterous for this sensitive environment. shell s operations manager says once the situation is
environmental damage. the big rig ran aground near uninhabited island off the coast of alaska on monday night. gregg: how much of a real concern here is there that a spill could happen from the ship? guest: a spill response team is mobilizing equipment if it should happen and a spokesperson says pictures show no sign of a leak currently. an official from the shell rig says the rig recently had 292 million of improvements done. it is home to sales, see lions, and two endangered species and the top democratic on the natural resources committee is sharing his concern with the statement saying oil companies say they can conquer the arctic but the arctic disagrees with drilling expanse proving disastrous for the sensitive environment. the operations manager says that when the situation is under control, they will investigate the cause and was not certain if
damage. arthel: so, anna, is there a real concern that a spill could happen. reporter: well a spill response team is preparing a plan and mobilizing equipment in the event that a spill should happen. a spokesperson for the team tells us aerial pictures show know signs of a leak. an official from shell says the rig recently had $292 million of improvements done. it is built with reinforced steel that is three inches thick. the habitat is home to harbor seals, sea lions, salmon and at least two endangered species. the top democrat on the natural resources committee, congressman ed markey is sharing his concern with this statement. oil companies keep saying they can conquer the arctic but the arctic keeps disagreeing with the oil companies. drilling expansion could prove dissasstries for this sensitive environment. shell alaska operations manager says once the situation sunday control they will investigate the cause. the representative wasn t certain whether the findings
well, it is very clear what they could have done. it is obvious that the spill response plan needs to be revamped. that is a public document. every company should have that on their website. congress needs to enact new safety precations. we are using the same blowout preventer we used on the deep water horizon. the only difference is now we aren t drilling in one mile, we have two miles. we have actually lowered the safety precautions and that s just a recipe for another disaster. why would they not at the very least update the spill response team and make it public in the past 24 i mean, you guys legitimately find any answers as to what could possibly prevent the moderate level of response, something like posting an updated spill response document would entail? now, remember, pursuant to the exxon valdez oil spill, the