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Endicott oil field. no interviews, no tours. bp says it's for security reasons. if you want to actually see what they're doing out in the ocean here, you have to fly. but we wanted to see the island so we could see what this sideways drilling might mean in this environment. the first thing we noticed, liberty island is connected via a causeway to another bp operation called endicott island. four years ago, bp was fined because oil and diesel fuel had been dumped into the arctic from endicott island. >> so now what? when is bp planning on drilling? >> they were planning on drilling this year, a...

Federal and state regulators aren't so confident in bp's plans to drill out here on liberty island. now they're taking another look. 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. 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 the liberty project's spill plan. there is something else you should know about this so-called onshore drilling proje...

Bp says it's for security reasons. if you want to actually see what they're doing out in the ocean here, you have to fly. but we wanted to see the island so we could see what this sideways drilling might mean in this environment. the first thing we noticed, liberty island is connected via a causeway to another bp operation called endicott island. four years ago, bp was fined because oil and diesel fuel had been dumped into the arctic from endicott island. >> so now what? when is bp planning on drilling? >> they were planning on drilling this year, anderson. in fact, in just a few months. but i...

So we could see what this sideways drilling might mean in this environment. the first thing we noticed, liberty island is connected via a causeway to another bp operation called endicott island. four years ago, bp was fined because oil and diesel fuel had been dumped into the arctic from endicott island. >> so now what? when is bp planning on drilling? >> they were planning on drilling this year, anderson. in fact, in just a few months. but in light of the new review of their spill plan, they've pushed that drilling back to 2011. but, anderson, they expect to get 40,000 barrels of oil a day ou...

Addressing environmentalists complaints, he added, it's hard to imagine anyone who knows the facts or the history of this project would make such a claim. but after the gulf oil disaster, federal and state regulators aren't so confident in bp's plans to drill out here on liberty island. now they're taking another look. 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. they declined to answer only saying, quote, in light of the bp oil spill in the gulf and new safety req...