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BP Apllications Filed With Minerals Management Service Claimed Plan to Handle Huge Spill

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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via Bloomberg: “BP Plc said in permit applications (slow loading, 582 pages) for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that it was prepared to handle an oil spill more than ten times larger than the one now spewing crude into the waters off the southern United States.”

  • See also this new report, Federal Data Shows BP Faulted for 8,000 Oil Spills: “…the Sunlight Foundation’s Reporting Group published an analysis that shows British Petroleum was blamed for roughly 8,000 reported incidents of spills, emissions and leaks of oil, chemicals and gases into the environment. This analysis is based on data collected by the National Resource Data from reports filed by the company reporting on itself, whistleblowers and the public.
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