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Hey, Now BP Is Doing Stuff In Alaska That'll Piss You Off
Via savingpaper:
BP is moving ahead with the controversial project to drill for oil three miles off the coast of Alaska in spite of the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling. The project, called Liberty, has been classified by regulators as an “onshore” project because it sits on an artificial island — a 31-acre pile of gravel in about 22 feet of water — built by BP.
And then there’s what those Bush-era regulators chose not to regulate:
Rather than conducting their own independent analysis, federal regulators, in a break from usual practice, allowed BP in 2007 to write its own environmental review for the project as well as its own consultation documents relating to the Endangered Species Act, according to two scientists from the Alaska office of the federal Mineral Management Service that oversees drilling.
The environmental assessment was taken away from the agency’s unit that typically handles such reviews, and put in the hands of a different division that was more pro-drilling, said the scientists, who discussed the process because they remained opposed to how it was handled.
“The whole process for approving Liberty was bizarre,” one of the federal scientists said.
