Update on the Permitorium in the Gulf

Update

I guess they got the "final" permit. Good to go.

Original Post

Link here.

I'm really not all that interested in this story any more; the story has run its course, but it is interesting that after more than a year after the spill, the first permit for BP has been issued. I guess the politics had to run its course.

I say that because:

This is the 44th plan that has been approved following the completion of a site-specific EA since stronger regulations were implemented in June 2010.

But it appears, that at least for BP, the permitorium continues:

Prior to any drilling under the plan, BP must obtain drilling permits from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which will continue to assess the information that is necessary to allow specific activities.

This is the first EP that BP has had approved since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill.