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Salazar, Chu declare Macondo well 'effectively dead'

09/27/2010
By Nick Snow
US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar and Energy Sec. Steven Chu declared BP PLC's Macondo well "effectively dead" on Sept. 19, but pledged in a joint statement to continue working to clean up remaining spilled oil and restore the US Gulf Coast.Oversight of the well has moved from the National Incident Command to the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, which will oversee the deepwater well's decommissioning. It blew out on Apr. 20, causing the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible to explode and kill 11 workers, and a subsequent massive crude oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico."The best minds in the public and private sectors ca...
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