First Deepwater Oil Drilling Plan Approved Since BP Spill

[sasha031]

WASHINGTON, DC, March 22, 2011 (ENS) - The federal government has awarded Shell Offshore Inc. the first new deepwater oil exploration plan approved since the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010 and the three-month long oil spill that polluted much of the Gulf of Mexico.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Michael Bromwich, director of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, BOEMRE, said Monday that the bureau approved Shell's Exploration Plan, following the completion of a site-specific Environmental Assessment for deepwater oil and gas exploration.

The agency approved Shell's supplemental exploration plan that proposes activities not included in an original plan for the same lease in Shell's Auger field, which was approved in 1985.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2011/2011-03-22-093.html

[FirstLight]

1. where?

more gulf drillilng?

boy oh boy, we are really gunning for disaster and mayhem by 2012, huh?

[NYC_SKP]

2. 130 miles offshore Louisiana. nt.