Amazon Reef: BP Drilling Plans Dealt Another Blow by Brazilian Regulator

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By GreenpeaceDec 11, 2017, 2:32 pm324 pts
By Joe Sandler Clarke, Unearthed BP's plans to drill for oil near a huge coral reef in the mouth of Amazon river have been dealt a further blow after a regulator questioned the company's environmental risk assessment. Ibama, Brazil's federal environmental agency, rejected an environmental study from the British…

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