BP's back in the drilling game in Gulf of Mexico

[seafan]

Robert Trigaux, Business Columnist at the St. Petersburg Times writes:


October 14, 2011

Wake up and good morning. Looks like BP's back in business in the Gulf of Mexico. After an internal debate, the Obama administration said Thursday that BP can now bid on new oil leases in the gulf. Oddly, the announcement came a day after the Interior Department cited BP and its two principal contractors for numerous safety and environmental violations related to the gulf explosion (left, AP photo) that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010. Read more in this New York Times story.

AP

Just in time. Two million deepwater acres will be opened for exploration and drilling in the western gulf.

Not everyone, of course, agrees with the federal decision. The Obama administration’s move to let BP bid for leases was sharply criticized by environmentalists. "We think it’s too soon to let BP back in there," Athan Manuel, director of lands protection at the Sierra Club, told the NYTimes. "These guys shouldn’t have the benefit of the doubt anymore."

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This White House, unfortunately, does not agree.



Sickening.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. This is so wrong!

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