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What could possibly go wrong? “The Interior Department said Monday that it had approved the first new deepwater drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP explosion and spill last spring, a milestone after a period of intense uncertainty for industry and a wholesale remaking of the nation’s system of offshore oil [...] The first test appears to be working! Hurray!!!! If it holds, let’s not forget that this whole operation was about ‘containment’ vs. ‘closure’. That’s the difference between profits and unsustainable financial losses. I still firmly believe deep-sea offshore drilling should be banned. Sure, there’d be some energy growing pains – but sometimes that’s [...] Brought to you by NOAA’s IncidentNews website: NOAA Web Update May 4, 2010 DEEPWATER HORIZON Incident Situation – Tuesday 04 May – As the weather became better throughout the day, skimming, boom placement, aerial application of dispersants, imaging of the oil plume, in situ burning and observation overflights all took place in an effort to [...] img credit AP ReefHugger is late to the game on this one… of course something like this would happen while we’re out of town. At this point everyone is familiar with the rapidly developing disaster in the Gulf off the Louisiana shore, so rather than recap the story en masse we’ll just use this [...] |
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