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With President Obama’s administration wholesale parceling out of Arctic region drilling permits, the history of the Deepwater Horizon may be prologue for an event which would impact the foundation of our planet’s ocean food chain.

“When Tony Hayward took over BP in 2007 – after the oil giant had experienced a series of calamitous accidents – he vowed that safety would be his top priority. So how did he come to preside over one of the worst industrial disasters in history? A Fortune investigation reveals a saga of hubris, ambition, and a safety philosophy that focused too much on spilled coffee and not enough on drilling disasters.

By Peter Elkind and David Whitford with Doris Burke”