Total S.A. said Monday it dispatched a ship to begin drilling off French Guyana’s coast, and assured it won’t damage coral reefs in the area. The move comes just days after Brazil denied it a license for work on its offshore portion, and despite warnings from environment protection organizations. “The closest reef identified is located 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the drilling point and is not coral,” Total said in a statement . “Total obviously does not conduct drilling operations in coral reefs,” the company added. Scientists who carried out a 50-day oceanographic survey on-site in 2017, including those from the Paris […]