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Shell spills 13,000 gallons while drilling near Deepwater Horizon site

Shell International spilled 13,000 gallons of oil and drilling fluids into the Gulf on... more

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10 Questions That Will NOT Be Asked in Tonight's GOP Debate

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State Parks are getting the Ax

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Greenpeace activists force Arctic oil rig to stop drilling

An Arctic oil rig was forced to stop drilling by environmental activists demanding to know how its owner would respond to an oil leak on the scale of last year's Deepwater Horizon spill.

Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy said drilling was suspended at its Leiv Eiriksson rig off the coast of Greenland after 18 Greenpeace protesters breached a restricted area. The activists launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in five inflatable speedboats from outside a 500m exclusion zone set up by Danish authorities.

Campaigner Ben Ayliffe said: "Cairn Energy is hiding its oil spill response plan, so we're going to the one place where there must be a copy of it. It's obvious why Cairn won't tell the world how it would clean up a BP-style oil spill here in the Arctic, and that's because it can't be done.

"Experts say the freezing temperatures and remote location mean a deep water blow-out in this stunning pristine environment would be an irreversible disaster. If they published the plan, the dangers of investing in such a high-risk venture would be laid bare. We have to draw a line in the ice and stop the Arctic oil rush."

Cairn announced this week that it had begun drilling in two wells in the region. The two wells are approximately 160km and 300km off Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. Each drilling operation is in water deeper than 900m.

Last week, two Greenpeace protesters occupied the company's 53,000-tonne drilling vessel.They hung from the underside of the rig in an Arctic survival pod and had enough supplies to keep them there for 10 days, but were removed by Danish police.

Cairn has asked a court in the Netherlands to legally prevent Greenpeace from disrupting any future deep-sea drilling operations.

In a statement, the company said: "Cairn confirms that members of Greenpeace have boarded the semi-submersible drilling vessel, the Leiv Eiriksson, owned by Ocean Rig. The protesters have breached the safety exclusion zone and entered a restricted area on the rig. In accordance with the strict health and safety practices employed in this drilling programme and in order to ensure safe operating conditions, drilling has been suspended.

"Cairn respects the rights of individuals and organisations to express their views in a safe and peaceful manner, but would be concerned with any action that presents a risk to the safety of people and/or equipment."

The company added: "Wherever it is active, Cairn operates in a safe and prudent manner. The Greenland Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum has established some of the most stringent operating regulations anywhere globally, which mirror those applied in the Norwegian North Sea. Cairn takes its responsibilities such as oil spill contingency and response plans very seriously.

"Cairn, working closely with the Greenland authorities, has developed an extensive emergency response and oil spill response plan. As stipulated by Greenland Authorities, the oil spill response documents are not publicly available."An Arctic oil rig was forced to stop drilling by environmental activists demanding to... more

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Nobody, I mean Nobody Knows; can you imagine?

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Weekly Mulch: Greening the Royal Wedding is the Least of Our Worries

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BP Seeks to Resume Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

The New York Times April 3, 2011 BP Seeks to Resume Drilling in the Gulf of... more

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First Oil-Drilling Permit Since BP Catastrophe

First Permit Since BP Catastrophe February 28, 2011 Posted In: Oil Rig By Injury... more

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Gas Prices Soar as Obama Killed Oil Drilling

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W.H. Official: No New Drilling in Eastern Gulf

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BP's Lawyers Helped Prepare Gulf Investigation

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BP and N.O.A.A. Dispatch PR Teams To Schools

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Obama administration to lift deepwater drilling moratorium

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Obama ends ban on deep-water oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-pn-oil-moratorium-lift-20101013,0,6522603.story

Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles —
Nearly six months after the nation’s worst oil disaster, the Obama administration on Tuesday said it had formally lifted its moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

The move had been expected after the White House signaled Tuesday morning that it was going to lift the moratorium, which was praised by environmentalists but sharply criticized by businesses and some government leaders in the region who argued that the ban was an economic burden.

As part of the decision, the Obama administration said it would continue with tougher safety requirements designed to prevent a repeat of the April 20 explosion and fire on an offshore oil rig that killed 11 workers.

“Operators who play by the rules and clear the higher bar can be allowed to resume” drilling, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said at a telephone news conference Tuesday.

“The oil and gas industry will be operating under tighter rules, stronger oversight and in a regulatory environment that will remain dynamic as we continue to build on the reforms we have already implemented,” Salazar said.

Even though the ban has been lifted, it will take several weeks before the needed permits are approved, Michael Bromwich, director of the agency that oversees offshore drilling, said on Tuesday.

At an earlier briefing, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs signaled to reporters that the moratorium would be lifted shortly. He, too, stressed the new safety requirements for “worst-case scenario” strategies from oil companies.

The Obama administration ordered the moratorium on May 27 after the BP oil disaster.

The nation watched fascinated through the summer as the oil company and the government worked to cap the well, which spewed millions of barrels of oil into the gulf waters, becoming the nation’s worst such disaster. An estimated 200 million gallons of oil poured into the gulf before BP announced in September that a relief well had been drilled to the site and formally killed the well, deep under water.

The incident also became a political hurdle for the Obama administration, which sought to avoid unfavorable comparisons with the Bush administration’s questionable handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Obama and his family visited the area, and the president pledged to make BP pay for the environmental damage to the region.

BP has said it has already paid or pledged more than $32 billion in claims and for the costs of shutting down the well.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-pn-oil-moratorium-lift-20101013,0,652... more

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BP Aftermath: High Levels Of Cancer-Causing Agents

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Obama Admin. Criticized For Underestimating Gulf Crisis

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Govt. Sued For Withholding BP Gulf Disaster Info

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Oil drill eyed as hope for miners

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/21/chile.miners.drill/index.html STORY... more

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OIL – You Better Sit Down!!!!!!!

Wake up people! We can be enjoying much lower gas prices if we all come together!

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Spike In BP Oil-Damaged Endangered Species

US officials recorded a big jump in the numbers of dolphins, endangered brown pelicans... more

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