BP first to drill in the Gulf of Mexico...AGAIN!! WTF!?

Washington - The US government's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) announced this week it issued a deepwater drilling permit to Noble Energy, a minor owner of a well that BP has a 46.5 percent stake in.
Houston-based Noble Energy is the recipient of the government's first deepwater drilling permit that allows resumption of drilling in the Gulf's deep waters. Noble Energy is the operator of a well that had been under way last year before BP's Macondo Well blowout took the lives of 11 workers, wreaked havoc on the Gulf's waters, and is only now beginning to show the negative impacts on the Gulf's biodiversity.
Noble Energy owns around 23 percent of the well and two smaller companies, Red Willow Production and Houston Energy LP, also own small percentages of the well. The well's largest percentage holder is BP.
BOEMRE's director, Michael Bromwich, said: "The permit represents a significant milestone for us and for the offshore oil and gas industry, and is an important step towards safely developing deepwater energy supplies offshore," according to a department news release.
"This permit was issued for one simple reason: the operator successfully demonstrated that it can drill its deepwater well safely and that it is capable of containing a subsea blowout if it were to occur. We expect further deepwater permits to be approved in coming weeks and months based on the same process that led to the approval of this permit," Bromwich added.
BOEMRE note's Noble Energy's containment capabilities were part of the approval process:
As part of its approval process, the bureau reviewed Noble Energy's containment capability available for the specific well proposed in the permit application. Noble Energy contracted with the Helix Well Containment Group (Helix) to use its capping stack to stop the flow of oil should a well control event occur. The capabilities of the capping stack meet the requirements that are specific to the characteristics of the proposed well.
BP's involvement in the largest off-shore "oil spill in the history of mankind" did not stop the government from allowing the oil giant to return to the waters it played a major role in tainting, due to a series of man-made decisions leading up to the blowout.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has called to question the oil industry's ongoing status as recipient of government subsidies in light of "the largest offshore accidental oil spill in the history of mankind."
Days after BP's Deepwater Horizon incident was capped, the government announce most of the oil that had been discharged into the Gulf had disappeared, thanks to microorganisms consuming the oil, but new research released by scientists reveals only around 10 percent of the oil is gone, with much of it still in the Gulf's water column and residing on the ocean floor.


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[btayebnejad]

EVERYONE BOYCOTT BP!!! THATS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN GET TO THEM, BOYCOTT BP ALL DAY EVERY DAY!

[iseeallof1]

@dannip789 What's more of a disgrace is that someone approved this in our government. You should be required to take a lie detector test & have a conscious (if only we had a machine to detect that!) b4 you can run for any office. The other disgrace is that we sit idly by & let this continue.. BP owner/s should have had all their assets seized & thrown in jail.. in a RIGHT SOCIETY!

[ClarksonsinUSA]

The simple truth is until we can switch over to CNG as a our main transportation fuel,we need to find and pump vast amounts of oil......BP will take every safety precaution this time..Why do I think this ,last time they took a short cut it cost $ 20 billion .......That's why..... :)

[ttiiyy]

Britons are saying that the oil spill took place because the system was designed by Americans. Some of them even have the nerves to say that BP is actually controlled by Americans. So then why do AP, AFP, and Reuters all call BP a British oil giant?

Some white trash in CA are now claiming that they want to protect the "white interest." If these MORONS really care about the white interest, they need to stop sending prayers to "European friends." Britons clearly have no respect for America.

[jacasforever]

WTF, obama?

[Spacew12]

@btayebnejad if they are getting taxpayer subsidies you are not really given much choice in supporting them. Dont really know what it takes to shut off that kind of government funding short of large political movements.

[MrBusinessman99]

Wtf!?

[GaGirlie777]

Further info to support the fact that the entire oil spill was a staged event. Wake up people!

[Wildrosestands]

Your supposed government is nothing but a criminal corporation, with deep ties into crimes against humanity that are being perpetuated all around the globe. THE UNITED STATES, INC,. was incorporated behind the People's backs, in 1871. Title 28, section 3002 15A. It is they, who are mortally and financially bankrupt. Not us.

Research the People's CAFR accounts being held in New York, and wake up please! This is an attempt at a transfer of wealth , by the corporation, that needs to be set down.

[webovisionca]

Hello Mr. Maddow