Brazil Perfecting Oil Spill Contingency Plans In Wake of BP Accident in Gulf of Mexico

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Brazil's Environment Ministry and navy are drafting a national contingency plan for responding to offshore oil spills, a ministry official told BNA June 17.rnThe plan will complement a 2000 federal law (No. 9,966) that makes operators of Brazil's offshore oil platforms-almost exclusively state oil company Petrobras-responsible for preventing and cleaning up oil spills, Robson Jose Calixto, a special assistant to the environment minister, told BNA June 17.