Finally one deep water well permit for the Gulf of Mexico

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The government's top offshore drilling regulator today approved the first deepwater permit since BP's well blowout last year.

It's a permit for Noble Energy to bypass a well it had already begun about 70 miles southeast of Venice, not far from BP's Macondo well that blew out last April. But regulators are confident that the new well won't have the same dangerous pressure problems that doomed BP's project last April.

Top offshore regulator Michael Bromwich -- director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement -- said the approval is a milestone, even though it's to resume work on a previously approved well and to drill around an obstacle.

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This looks like a permit to try to satisfy the judge who could be finding the administration in contempt for its refusal to issue new permits. I would not be giving them a pass for a permit that is barely a new well.
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