BP Granted Green Light to Explore Offshore Nova Scotia

摘要

BP plc's Canadian unit has been granted a national environmental green light for a four-year exploration campaign across a 14,000-square-kilometer (5,600-squaremile) Atlantic Ocean drilling frontier offshore of Nova Scotia. The approval, announced Thursday by federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, brushed aside industry critics' warnings that the program risks repeating the 2010 Macondo well blowout by the company's U.S. affiliate in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.