MMS approved 27 Gulf Drilling Ops AFTER the BP disaster

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MMS approved 27 Gulf Drilling Ops AFTER the BP disaster

For Immediate Release, May 7, 2010
Contact: Kierán Suckling, (520) 275-5960

MMS Approved 27 Gulf Drilling Operations After BP Disaster
26 Were Exempted From Environmental Review, Including Two to BP

Salazar's "Moratorium" on New Drilling Permits Allows Continuation of the Same Flawed
Environmental Exemption Process that Allowed the BP Catastrophe

TUCSON, Ariz.— Even as the BP drilling explosion which killed eleven people continues to gush hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has continued to exempt dangerous new drilling operations from environmental review. Twenty-seven new offshore drilling projects have been approved since April 20, 2010; twenty-six under the same environmental review exemption used to approve the disastrous BP drilling that is fouling the Gulf and its wildlife.

“The MMS has learned absolutely nothing from this national catastrophe,” said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, “It is still illegally exempting dangerous offshore drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico from all environmental review. It is outrageous and unacceptable.”

The MMS became embroiled in controversy when it was revealed on May 5, 2010, that it exempted BP’s offshore drilling plan from environmental review by using a loophole in the National Environmental Policy Act meant only to apply to projects with no, or minimal, negative effects such as construction of outhouse and hiking trails. The controversy deepened when it was revealed that MMS exempts hundreds of dangerous offshore oil drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico every year....

More at link: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/...

- K & R	Nikki Stone1	May-13-10 11:07 PM	#1
- K&R.	tosh	May-13-10 11:12 PM	#2
- I jusr recc'd	Nite Owl	May-13-10 11:19 PM	#3
- Prepare to be linked to an alleged debunking of this...	Truth2Tell	May-13-10 11:30 PM	#4
- No debunking occured	HughMoran	May-14-10 12:15 AM	#8
- .	donheld	May-13-10 11:38 PM	#5
- Third time's the charm.	Scurrilous	May-13-10 11:41 PM	#6
- This has been POSTED 10 TIMES!!	HughMoran	May-14-10 04:20 PM	#18
- K&R	havocmom	May-14-10 12:12 AM	#7
- shameful	lovely	May-14-10 12:16 AM	#9
- No drilling is allowed under the moratorium	HughMoran	May-14-10 12:18 AM	#10
- Prove it.	Luminous Animal	May-14-10 01:39 AM	#12
- Gee, guess this isn't true either!	saracat	May-14-10 03:16 PM	#14
- What does that have to do with the current moratorium?	HughMoran	May-14-10 04:16 PM	#16
- From May 7th? Guess you didn't bother to check if this had been posted already? (nt)	Tarheel_Dem	May-14-10 01:25 AM	#11
- It's been posted 10 times already	HughMoran	May-14-10 04:40 PM	#21
- lalalalalalalalaalala!	Greyhound	May-14-10 04:24 AM	#13
- If this were a Republican administration....	blindpig	May-14-10 03:58 PM	#15
- Deleted sub-thread	Name removed	May-14-10 04:18 PM	#17
- shameless is right! substituting a diff personality does not suddenly exonerate indefensible acts	amborin	May-14-10 04:28 PM	#20
- The corporate reins on our government are strangling us.	HCE SuiGeneris	May-14-10 04:25 PM	#19