Sentence examples for deepwater freeze from inspiring English sources
Licensing there has now resumed, while other countries had dismissed a deepwater freeze from the start, including Britain, whose output is dwindling in the shallower North Sea.
Environmentalists had called on the White House to continue the freeze on deepwater drilling and extend it to shallow-water drilling.
Louisiana politicians indignantly oppose Obama's temporary freeze on deepwater drilling, accusing him of killing the one big industry left standing now that fishing and tourism are in crisis.
Appropriately, the Obama administration is now taking steps to prevent another Deepwater Horizon, putting a freeze on new offshore drilling permits and establishing a presidential commission to investigate the spill.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 forced the company to freeze dividends and sell assets worth $38bn, including half of all its offshore platforms and refineries, to meet the $42bn costs of the clean-up.
"We had the UK winter freeze and windstorm Xynthia in Europe, we had volcanic ash and we had Deepwater Horizon – it was an astonishing first half," said Robert Hiscox, chairman of the eponymous insurer.
Most recently, the company made a motion in court to freeze payments on tens of thousands of legitimate claims, arguing that a staff attorney from the Deepwater Horizon Court-Supervised Settlement Program, the program responsible for evaluating compensation claims, had improperly profited from claims filed by a New Orleans law firm.
"And deepwater peaked five or six years ago.
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MAP (Sources: Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center NOAAA).
