US embargo on Cuba ‘needs modifying in case of oil spill’

摘要

The US trade embargo against Cubawould bar US-based well interventioncompanies from helping to stop any oilspilled from a deepwater well in Cubanwaters, which would threaten Florida andthe Atlantic seaboard, according to thetop US official who oversaw the US gov-ernment’s response to BP’s Macondospill in the Gulf of Mexico.Coast Guard Rear-Admiral PaulZukunft is pressing US lawmakers andthe White House to create an exemp-tion so that expertise developed duringthe BP oil spill could be used in theevent of another spill now that energycompanies are planning to drill off thecoast of Cuba.