EPA suspends BP from new federal contracts in wake of oil spill
One of the many reasons for voting for Obama is paying off. I don’t want the “drill, baby, drill” GOP party in power which had even apologized to BP because Obama had the temerity to hold BP accountable for their environmental vandalism.
I don’t want these criminally negligent polluters given the people’s contracts to.
EPA suspends BP from new federal contracts in wake of oil spill
By Steven Mufson,
Nov 28, 2012 06:29 PM EST
The Washington Post Published: November 28
The Environmental Protection Agency has suspended BP from bidding on any new federal contracts, including drilling leases, as a result of the company’s conduct during the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in 2010 that led to 11 deaths and the largest U.S. offshore spill.
The temporary ban came early on the day the Interior Department held a sale of leases on 20 million acres of offshore oil and gas prospects in the western Gulf of Mexico that the department said attracted $133 million in bids. People familiar with the process said the company did not submit any bids.
The EPA said the suspension will not affect BP’s current contracts or leases, which are crucial to the company. The London-based oil giant is the largest leaseholder in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, with more than 700 leases, and it is the gulf’s largest producer of oil and gas, from more than 20 fields there. It won 40 new leases in June.
In 2011, BP was also the largest supplier of fuel to the U.S. military, with contracts worth about $1.35 billion.
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