Less than four years after the largest single disaster in the history of the oil industry and just one week after a ban to drill in the Gulf of Mexico was lifted by the US Department of the Interior, oil giant BP was awarded license to drill in two dozen separate locations this week as it made winning bids at a federal auction with a total pricetag of $54 million.

The Interior Department lease auction on Wednesday included 326 blocks that received bids from 50 oil and drilling companies.

According to the Associated Press:

Subsequently, in an interview with the Real News Network, author and freelance journalist Cherri Foytlin, who has covered te story of the BP Deepwater disaster closely and written a book on the subject, said that BP’s return to the gulf is a travesty of justice and an affront to those in the region still suffering from the impacts of the 2010 blowout.

Justice has not been served, says Foytlin. “We are still seeing a large amount of environmental damages here in the Gulf Coast, and the fishing communities are still having low catches, so the communities here and the people here who are dealing with this are continuing to be affected.”

“I feel like we’re an abused child that’s been put back in the hand of the abuser,” she continued. “I don’t believe that BP is going to go out and make everything okay and safe out there. The track record that they have has not proven to the American people or to the Gulf citizens up to this point that they’re serious about making those changes, except for on paper.”

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