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Are We Drawing the Right Lessons from the Gulf Oil Disaster? Sources News Release http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR830.htm Publisher:  Richard Martin Date Written:  03/05/10 Year Published:  2010   Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter We are already hearing calls from environmentalists for a moratorium on oil drilling and exploration in coastal zones, with a definite "I told you so" attitude. Unfortunately, that would be drawing precisely the wrong lesson from the Gulf of Mexico Abstract:  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONTREAL - We are already hearing calls from environmentalists for a moratorium on oil drilling and exploration in coastal zones, with a definite "I told you so" attitude. Unfortunately, that would be drawing precisely the wrong lesson from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. It turns out that there are contingent risk reduction measures that BP could have put in place before the disaster. They wouldn't necessarily have prevented the main well explosion and damage, but they... To read the full release go to http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR830.htm Topics Emergency Preparedness Offshore Safety Oil & Gas Oil & Gas Drilling Oil & Gas/Environmental Issues Oil & Gas Industry Oil & Gas Well Blowouts Oil Industry Oil Spills Risk Management

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