Thirty-seven percent of the Gulf is closed to fishing because of an accident involving a deepwater drilling operation.

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The blame is being laid squarely on the shoulders of BP, under whose auspices the deep-sea drilling operation is being conducted.

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Alternatively, they like when an energy manufacturing plant is built in their district, or a fossil fuel mining or drilling operation occurs in their district.

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Under the plan, BP said that the worst spill from a mobile drilling operation would come from a lease called the Mississippi Canyon 462, about 33 miles off the Louisiana coast.

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He acknowledged the good safety record of UK and Norwegian drilling and promised to work in close co-operation with their national governments.

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It had to stop the operation when the Obama administration invoked its moratorium on gulf drilling.

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