BP is nearly as 'daffed' as the Louisiana leadership.
There is a moritorium of offshore deepwater exploration. The Gulf Coast of the USA has been devastated by BP's negligence and we have no idea when and IF it will ever recover.
The Gulf of Mexico Loop Current is still receiving oil and dispersant from the Macondo well with unknown consequences.
The Investigation into the disaster won't be complete until January 2011. There is a $20 billion trust fund to the disaster's VICTIMS with the potential of more if the fund provies inadequate over the decades and BP wants to drill at the very same location where there is a cap that has leaked and exhibits methane ice on the exterior of the seal.
NO !!!!!
With such claims by BP to 'drill again' into the same high methane content vat with a compromised well already in the area and oil seeps from other wells nearby, BP has exhibited the poorest judgement it could ever have drawn.
NO !!!!!!
Absolutely NOT !
BP needs to be banned from any leases anywhere in the USA. Legislation needs to be drawn up providing this protection for the country. BP is a national security risk.
...In a briefing with reporters (click title to entry - thank you) meant to symbolise BP's return to business-as-usual in the Gulf, the chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, said the company may not give up all claims on the Macondo well, which leaked five million barrels of oil into the Gulf.
"There's lots of oil and gas here," Suttles said. "We're going to have to think about what to do with that at some point."
BP's former chief executive, Tony Hayward, told Congress in June that there were 50 million recoverable barrels of oil in the reservoir.
The company faces tens of billions of dollars of damages from the spill....
