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Now That the Well Is Capped, Should BP Ever Be Allowed to Open It Again?

By David KnowlesAug 6th 2010 – 2:10PM

(Aug. 6) -- You'd think that after suffering the worst accidental oil spill in history, the rush to drill more new holes in the ocean would be tempered somewhat. But for an oil-addicted planet, simply turning away from the reserves still locked beneath BP's freshly sealed Macondo well may prove too difficult to endure....

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Spain's Repsol weighs further drilling off Cuba after dry well

May 29th 2012 - 04:40PM

Spanish oil company Repsol's CEO, Antonio Brufau, said Tuesday that "the reasonable thing" is not to undertake any more activities in Cuba after the first well drilled in deep ocean waters near the island came up "dry."

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Anya Landau French: Is the White House Ready for a Cuban Deep Water Drilling Disaster?

By Anya Landau French Sep 20th 2011 - 04:15PM

Cuban energy officials are taking the lessons of the BP oil spill disaster very seriously, according to a group of oil drilling and environmental experts just back from Cuba , including the co-chairman of the Bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (also former EPA...

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Power Shift Participants Denounce Obama's Environmental Inaction

By Lucia Graves Apr 18th 2011 - 05:44PM

Thousands of young activists gathered at a rally in front of the White House on Monday to demand that the president protect the Clean Air Act, stop taking money from corporate polluters, and invest in a clean energy economy.

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Noble Energy Resumes Deep Water Drilling in the Gulf

By prods@weblogsinc.com (Connie Madon) Mar 13th 2011 - 10:12AM

Noble's new permit to drill in the deep water off the Gulf will add to our domestic supply.

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Obama Lifts Moratorium on Deep-Water Drilling in Gulf of Mexico

By Tom Diemer Oct 12th 2010 - 03:59PM

The White House lifted a temporary ban on the drilling of deep water wells in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, five- and a-half months after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and blew out BP's Macondo well a mile beneath the water's surface.

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