Sentences with phrase «water drilling remains»
The risks are high that there will be no action on many of the issues arising from the Gulf spill, Boesch explains in a commentary article in this week's Nature (see «Deep - water drilling remains a risky business»).
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«The pore spaces, or tiny holes, in the rock remain filled with these ancient oceans, so when we drill wells today that water is produced to the surface,» Tinker says.
Green leaders worry that if Bush administration plans to expand offshore oil drilling are not overturned by President Obama, oil spills in U.S. waters could remain a sad fact of life.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke maintained this week that Florida remains exempt from the Trump administration's plan to open up coastal waters to oil drilling.
As it stands as the start of June 2010, expansion of offshore drilling in US coastal waters remains on hold pending investigation of the causes of the BP oil spill.
The Gulf of Mexico is still under a drilling moratorium after the BP oil spill but plans to step up deep - water exploration on the other side of the world, in the South China Sea, remain largely unchanged.