AP EXCLUSIVE: Salazar keeps oil drill ban, for now (AP)

August 1, 2010 by: admin

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar touches the flat tire preventer carry out row as he asks reserve questions in the training shed on the training building of the low H2O Noble Danny Adkins oil supply in the Gulf of Mexico, off the seashore of Louisiana, Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) AP – The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico — with surprisingly small oil manifest on the aspect — when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like make up scarcely 350 feet on top of the waves. The $600 million rig, scarcely 100 miles off Louisiana’s coast, has a carcass incomparable than a football margin and can cavalcade some-more than 5 miles underneath the sea floor.