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Macondo shadow looms over Bight drill plans

SUBMISSIONS have closed for the Australian Senate's review into BP's plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight, a proposal that has sparked a protest a world away, at the same time the oiler has finally received approval to settle litigation associated with April 2010's catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Macondo shadow looms over Bight drill plans

The Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications' inquiry into proposals for the first wells in the Great Australian Bight in almost 15 years is expected to report its findings on May 12,...

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