Fracking – The Next Frontier for Offshore Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico [1]

Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog [2]
Waking Times [3]

In little-noticed news arising out of a recent Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas lease [4] held by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the floodgates have opened for Gulf offshore hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) [5].

With 21.6 million acres auctioned off by the Obama Administration [6] and 433,822 acres receiving bids [7], some press accounts have declared BP America — of 2010 Gulf of Mexico offshore oil spill infamy — a big winner of the auction [8]. If true, fracking ...