'Deepwater Horizon is not the worst-case scenario,” one oceanographer warned.
Obama-era safety regulations put in place after Deepwater Horizon, noting that while offshore oil and gas production “will never be totally risk-free” the agency “has made, and is continuing to make, substantial reforms to improve the safety.” Those changes, it said, included rules to reduce the risk of a rig losing control of a well, as happened in the Deepwater disaster.
With fewer safeguards in place, the administration has plowed ahead with offshore leasing. Last month, as the deadly coronavirus pandemic gripped the nation, Interior offered at auction 78 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas producers.
“Until we get our policies and legal architecture in line with the risks we are running, we are going to be very vulnerable,” he added.Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 21, 2010.published a report “Indeed, Deepwater Horizon is not the worst-case scenario,” Ian MacDonald, an oceanography professor at Florida State University, said on a call with reporters last week.
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