Kaktovik resident and polar bear guide, Robert Thompson, is concerned for the future. "If things don’t change the polar bears might be extinct in 50 years. They can't catch food on land and are here because of the shrinking sea ice." Thompson also fears that Shell do not have the capability to clean up a spill in Arctic waters. "They don’t have the equipment, they don’t have the people, they don’t even have a coast guard and they certainly do not have the infrastructure. It is an impossible situation,” he says, worried by the fact that no one has ever been able to clean up spilled oil in sea ice conditions. "Less than 10% was recovered in the gulf of Mexico and the conditions here are totally different." adds Thompson.