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Air BP will drill again the Gulf of Mexico

The British newspaper The Sunday Times reported Sunday that BP has agreed with U.S. regulators to resume their activities on some platforms in the Gulf of Mexico from July. Under the agreement, the British company could return to work in ten wells in deep waters in exchange for adhering to safety rules and oversight "tougher." Meanwhile, nearly all the oil is poured into the tragedy of last year still at sea, without knowing yet what the consequences are that the discharge will have medium and long-term ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico.

Cleaning up in the landfill last year. Photo of Daniel Beltran.

The news was quickly denied the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) , the official body responsible for authorizing oil exploration off the coast of the United States, but nevertheless can not rule out going to allow BP to recover their cake soon. Especially considering that the moratorium imposed by the Obama administration last May to drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and rose in October, and in recent weeks have given permits to Shell, Exxon Mobil , Chevron and BHP Milliton to drill eight wells in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

Even so, return the permit to BP would logically controversial as explained in the New York Times :

Granting permission to BP would be more controversial because the British oil company is still paying for costs related to the oil spill, the cleanup and the continuing civil and criminal investigations into the accident. BP so far has set aside more than $40 billion to cover those costs.  

The Obama administration has spent 11 months dealing with the aftermath of the Macondo well blowout and writing new rules to try to prevent similar accidents. But last week   President Obama , in a major statement on energy policy, said the administration was seeking increased domestic oil production, both onshore and off, as a means of reducing dependence on imported oil.  

Allowing BP to resume operations in the gulf would send a mixed message — that the administration was trying to increase the safety of   offshore drilling   and punish bad actors, while at the same time answering critics in Congress and the oil industry who say the administration is choking off production and driving up energy prices.  

Seems clear What Is That the Gulf of Mexico will return to full production Not Until all the major players - and BP is one of the Biggest - are allowed to resume drilling.

That last paragraph sums up the essence of the matter. Obama said last week need to reduce U.S. energy dependence on promoting renewable energy, but also increasing the production of indigenous energy sources, such as BP extracts oil from the Gulf of Mexico. It appears that you have forgotten that soon that "BP will pay for his recklessness" Because of widespread outrage among the population to wake up and environmentalists, Obama needs their oil, their fossil fuels, no matter who remove them. At the moment of truth, rhetoric "green" Obama collapses.

An example: Last month the government announced a massive expansion in coal mining, which the environmentalists would be an increase of more than half of emissions of greenhouse gases emitted since the United States. Grist's article denouncing it has no waste . Going direct to the precipice of global warming and some are determined to continue stepping on the accelerator.

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seemed difficult, but the other news that has come out this weekend in relation to the discharge of the Gulf of Mexico is even more outrageous. Transocean, the company responsible for operating the rig Deepwater Horizon which caused the disastrous accident of April 22, millionaires bonus has been distributed to executives to achieve this year "the best safety performance in the history of our company." Dementia .