Brussels, 07/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - Six months after the explosion that destroyed BP's Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico, the idea put forward by Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger of a moratorium on offshore oil exploration in the EU while awaiting a review of Community rules on safety and liability in the event of an oil spillage is causing controversy in Europe.
Going against the position adopted by its environment committee at the end of September, the European...