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Five Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, We Are Closer Than Ever to Catastrophe

AndrĂ¡s Tilcsik and Chris Clearfield The Guardian
Not far from the Deepwater Horizon accident site, Royal Dutch Shell is now developing the deepest offshore oil field in history. In the Caspian Sea, an international consortium is exploring the Kashagan oil and gas field, a mega-project that the consortium itself describes as an enormously challenging endeavour. And the hunt for Arctic oil takes place in some of the most inhospitable waters in the world.
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