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Though this may be considered a business venture soley, I find the potential for disaster to be most relevent to the Environment. I hope a spill is not "inevitable".
“There should be a lot more direct conversation and collaboration between the U.S., Cuba and others about the rig, because it’s inevitable,” she said.
U.S. officials say their priority is mitigating any potential threat to the United States and its territorial waters from oil drilling in Cuban waters. But they also say they’ve done nothing to facilitate oil drilling in Cuban waters, and that their main goal is to be prepared for the possibility of an oil spill and how they would respond.
“The United States will continue to engage multilaterally to advance regional collaboration and to ensure responsible stewardship of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea,” the State Department said in a statement issued before the meeting in the Bahamas.
Although U.S. officials say they’re not actively working to keep Cubans from drilling in their own waters, the embargo that’s been in place since the 1960s may have caused delays.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/12/2543744/oil-drilling-off-cuba-prompts.html#ixzz1gUDlQZQS
