China halts drilling at leaking oil platforms

By Jonathan Watts guardian.co.uk 13 July 2011 Government intervenes as ConocoPhillips rigs pose ‘huge threat to oceanic ecological environment’ China has ordered US oil company ConocoPhillips to halt drilling at two leaking oil platforms in the Bohai Sea, with a warning that further spills posed “a huge threat to the oceanic ecological environment”. The injunction […]

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