BP's planned response to any Great Australian Bight oil spill too slow, says expert

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Andrew Hopkins says BP’s plans to drill in Bight fall short of best practice and would not be allowed in other regions
BP is proposing to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight using plans that fall a long way short of industry best practice and would not be allowed in some other regions, according to an expert in oil spill disasters.
Andrew Hopkins, emeritus professor at the Australian National University, has researched BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Writing in the Conversation he said it was “by no means obvious” that BP had reduced risks of a spill in the Bight to as low as reasonably practicable, which is the requirement under Australian law. Continue reading…