"aemeijers" wrote in message
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Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"Robert Green" wrote:

It's the country's oil, and as such, the US has every right
to dictate how that oil is removed from the ground.

Really? The well is in on the high seas. What makes the oil belong to
the U.S.?

ISTR a 200-mile 'resources' thing being in a treaty or UN declaration or
something, a couple of decades back. As opposed to the traditional 3 or
12 mile limit for border control. Big Oil wouldn't have paid the front
money of all the details were not worked out about all that.

As a former VP candidate might say: "Ubetcha!"

Where 2
countries are closer than the standard, they sit across a table
somewhere and work out an agreement. I think there is even a line
between US and Cuba, that both countries honor.

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aem sends...

Correctomundo!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_Economic_Zone

Under the law of the sea, an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a seazone
over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine
resources. It stretches from the seaward edge of the state's territorial sea
out to 200 nautical miles from its coast. In casual usage, the term may
include the territorial sea and even the continental shelf beyond the 200
mile limit.

The US could force BP to stand on its head and spit out wooden nickels as a
condition for recovering the oil if it so chose.

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Bobby G.