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BP last week was awarded its first drilling permit since last year’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that eventually leaked an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. The permit allows for drilling in the Kaskida prospect, a huge area nearly 250 miles south of Lafayette, La. It will be in 6,000 feet of waterโ€”deeper than the ill-fated Macondo well whose blowout triggered last year’s spill.

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15 replies on “What Biggest Offshore Oil Spill in US History?”

  1. the president doesn’t get to change everything.

    no matter who’s in office, american industry moves forward with the same government facilitation it has always had, from supplying the planet with weapons of mass destruction to raping the national forests to lopping off the tops of mountains to pouring psychoactive chemicals into streams rivers and oceans. our politicians and captains of industry have no idea what to do except what’s already working. look what it took to stop the free supply of labor that made our cotton so competitive.

    the pillaging of the earth equals jerbs. you want a jerb, don’t you?

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