Interior Dept Gives Approval to Brazilian Oil Companys Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Facility #15
The facility will be used when the company begins oil and natural gas production at its Chinook-Cascade project in the near future, the department said. Petrobras is based in Brazil.
#55 exclusive economic zone
More specifically, the EEZ includes waters three to 200 miles (five to 322 kilometers) offshore (or nine to 200 miles 14.5 to 322 kilometers offshore in western Florida and Texas).
Seems pretty "in your face" by Interior to me. Besides, who's going to stand up and bring this to court like ExxonMobil did? The People?
They have no standing.
At issue is an ExxonMobil project in a part of the Gulf of Mexico known as the Julia Field...
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