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After Gulf Blast, Drilling Ban Debate Intensifies
Sep 2nd 2010 – 7:57PM
Gerald Herbert, AP
(Sept. 2) -- The explosion and fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has intensified the debate over the Obama administration's temporary ban on deepwater drilling in the gulf, even though the accident apparently did not involve drilling and the ban doesn't apply to the installation because it's in shallow...
Background on deepwater drilling moratorium
On May 30, 2010 a 6 month moratorium on all deepwater offshore drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf was declared by U.S.
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