ATLANTA - environmental groups asked a Federal Court of appeal lay by a decision of the Government of U.S. to approve a Shell Oil exploration plan that includes five wells proposed more than 7,000 feet of water in the Gulf of the Mexico.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and application of the Act approved the plan in May. The plan includes also three wells already approved 72 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
Defenders of wildlife, the Center for biological diversity and the claim of Natural Resources Defense Council in a petition filed Thursday in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of appeals in Atlanta, that the decision contravenes the law and that the environment would cause if it is.
New regulations for drilling in deep water was imposed after the deadly rig explosion of last year and the Gulf oil spill.
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