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It's called ultra extended reach drilling. a bp brochure calls the plan, quote, one of the oil and gas industries most significant technological advances. the main risk is what's termed a gas kick. undetected methane bubbles in a sideways pipe and, of course, the inability to control a huge oil spill in an already fragile environmental. >> we don't have the ability to deal with it, if anything goes wrong. if there's an oil spill in the arctic, we just -- there isn't the infrastructure that there is in the gulf to deal with it. we're seeing in the gulf even when there is infrastructure and peop...

One of the reasons? environmental groups say mms approved bp's environmental review in 2008 with minimal changes. we asked the interior department for comment, twice in fact. but they declined to answer only saying, quote, in light of the bp oil spill in the gulf and new safety requirements we will be reviewing the adequacy of the current version of liberty project's spill plan. there is something else you should know about this so-called onshore drilling project. bp's plan calls for drilling two miles under the island and then going sideways to drill six to eight miles offshore. it's called u...

Going sideways to drill six to eight miles offshore. it's called ultra extended reach drilling. a bp brochure calls the plan, quote, one of the oil and gas indust industries most significant technological advances. the main risk is what's termed a gas kick. undetected methane bubbles in a sideways pipe and, of course, the inability to control a huge oil spill in an already fragile environmental. >> we don't have the ability to deal with it, if anything goes wrong. if there's an oil spill in the arctic, we just -- there isn't the infrastructure that there is in the gulf to deal with it. we're s...

The main risk is what's termed a gas kick. undetected methane bubbles in a sideways pipe and, of course, the inability to control a huge oil spill in an already fragile environment. >> we don't have the ability to deal with it, if anything goes wrong. if there's an oil spill in the arctic, we just -- there isn't the infrastructure that there is in the gulf to deal with it. we're seeing in the gulf even when there is infrastructure and people on boats and boom and dispersants and all that sort of thing, they still can't deal with an oil spill. >> we asked bp for permission to visit liberty isla...

Can't overcome gas in the pipes. that could have been a factor in the deepwater horizon blast. environmentalists say when a gas kick does occur in a drill -- >> the sprob it's harder to detect, the gas comes up a pipe more slowly. a bp official says that's not the guess. and an analyst agrees. but murray has ore questions about how the liberty project was allowed to go forward. >> what's your biggest problem? the regulations and lack of oversight? >> another regulations vvr outsexual intercoursed towards the companies.