BP Exec: Who Could Have Known? It's Not Our Rig! Etc. IT'S NOT OUR FAULT!
Lamar McKay on This Week with Jake Tapper is practically a textbook case of public-relations crisis management: It wasn't our rig! No one could have known!
TAPPER: Your company, BP, has a spotty safety record, most horrifically in 2005, an explosion at a refinery in Texas that killed 15 workers; other incidents involving leaks have been blamed on cutting corners on financial reasons. How confident are you that this accident had nothing to do with cutting back on safety to save a buck?
MCKAY: Well, the investigations are going to show the cause of this accident, and we want those investigations to be done. My belief that is that that does not have anything to do with it. I believe we've got a failed piece of equipment. We don't know why it failed yet in this contracted rig, and BOP system will figure that out.
Even though you were warned about these rigs ten years ago? Already I'm smelling a rat!
But let me just tell you, our focus, our focus right now is dealing with the source of the oil, dealing with it on the surface, and dealing with it on the beach or the marsh if it occurs.
TAPPER: Your initial filing to the government, to the Mineral Management Service for 2009 before you drilled on this spot made this assessment, quote, "An accidental oil spill could cause impact to the beaches. However, due to the distance to shore, 48 miles, and the response capabilities that would be implemented, no significant adverse impacts are expected. BP Exploration and Production Incorporated has the capability to respond to the maximum extent practicable to a worst-case discharge," which you estimated at 300,000 gallons. It's less than that, it's estimated to be 210,000, and yet BP does not seem to have the capability to respond. How can the public trust BP's assessments of risk and how can the public trust anything you guys say?
MCKAY: Well, I think we are responding very, very aggressively. As you may know, we had a response planned, filed for the drilling of this well that incorporates various capability around the Gulf Coast. That spill response plan was activated as soon as this event occurred. It has been extremely aggressive. It will continue to be extremely aggressive, and I believe the response -- this is, you know, we must understand, this is -- this is a very low likelihood but very high impact response -- sorry, incident -- and the response is matching that incident.
TAPPER: I just have a couple more questions. Just a few months ago, a BP executive protested proposed new safety regulations for oil rigs, writing to the government that quote, "while BP is supportive of companies having a system in place to reduce risks, accidents, injuries and spills, we are not supportive of extensive proscriptive regulations." Will BP continue to fight and lobby against safety regulations?
MCKAY: Well, I would characterize the letter you're talking about slightly differently. That letter was in response to the government's request for input on safety regulations that the MMS was looking at. The rest of the letter actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them. So we're not fighting anything about safety. Safety is the number one priority. We're going to figure out what happened here, and that is going to help the MMS and help ourselves and help the industry get safer, so we're not fighting anything about safety.
TAPPER: All right, last question, Mr. McKay. You had several fail/safe mechanisms on this rig, and they all failed. Since you don't yet know what caused this accident, will you stop all operations until you know? How can the American people trust that there won't be another explosion at another BP facility?
MCKAY: Well, we're working in conjunction with the government on understanding everything we can understand as quickly as we can. We're not going to do anything that we think is unsafe. We're doing extra tests on various pieces of equipment to make absolutely sure they will work in the condition they're intended to work in.
We won't do any work if we don't think it can be carried out safely and without impact. But we are working very closely with the government in trying to understand this and see if there should be any changes quickly.
Wow. I feel so much better now. Thanks, BP!
Smug bastard.
was more what I thought. He kept his composure while getting some pretty tough questions that would have riled a lot of other people. No doubt a learned skill on Lamar's part.
What else was going to come out and say? What else could he have said? BP is in the bent over position now and have little excuses they can make. They know they are in deep sh**.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Something that has the potential to spill 19 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is not, by any stretch of the imagination, fail-SAFE.
That is much more appropriately to the concept 'fail CATASTROPHICALLY'.
Don't beat yourself up over this. Don't be so hard on yourself and BP.
me-oww!
So, Mr. McKay... this disaster has nothing to do with your company's lousy safety record, eh? Oh, I get it... that refinery fire at Texas City was one accident... the big spill at Prudhoe Bay was a different accident... and the Deepwater Horizon debacle was yet a different accident.
So therefore none of it has anything to do with your company's shitty safety record. ~head spinning~
"So, Mr. McKay... this disaster has nothing to do with your company's lousy safety record, eh? Oh, I get it... that refinery fire at Texas City was one accident... the big spill at Prudhoe Bay was a different accident... and the Deepwater Horizon debacle was yet a different accident."
Yes, but you'll notice that all 3 accidents had different causes. That means we can call them 'isolated incidents'.
There are many ways that unfortunate incidents can occur, and we're going to cut corners on each of those ways in an effort to save money.
"BP - always finding new ways of saving you money..."
(...until the shit hits the fan, and our half-million dollar savings turns into a multi-billion dollar financial and environmental disaster.)
Oh, and BTW, "Drill Baby Drill"
The job I am sure went to the lowest bidder. Believe me in time like we have now with so many contractors bidding on so few jobs the only way to get the job is leave something out!
Hell it's the American way!
He gave the standard republican cop out! No one could have known!
dick cheney meets in secret with these guys.
halliburton gets contracts.
dick gets richer
bp is exposed finally (as if it will make any difference)
the gulf coast is destroyed
good work dick
the security this website has for registration is goofy.
is totally responsible for them. If you think the rig owners owe you, sue them after you pay to clean up this mess. Nice try, sleazy lying shill. Maybe you fooled some of the real people, but the lawyers are laughing at you, while they rub their hands together in anticipation of the law suits. This is what lawyers do best--get even. Have a nice day.
BP doesn't own the rig, Transoceanic does.
BP leased it and crewed it with Transoceanic employees.
And they subcontracted Haliburton for the capping operation that caused the disaster.
Got any more disinformation you'd like to scream about?
The important thing is who was operating it and doing the drilling. I gather that Halliburton had a hand in it along with BP.
had nothing to do with the operation of the rig.
In other words those BP guys are some smart motherfuckers. They are going to try and squeak out of this with zero responsibility. I don't think so, Buckwheat.
...robber barons, the lot of 'em...
Someone posted this link the other day on a thread about this disaster. After seeing Lamar McKay's babbling about it today, it seems even more appropriate now. You see, even though this did happen, these things don't happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QNAwUdHUQ
It has occurred. It's been "occurring" since Friday. Wanna see photos?
.... and I don't mean a fly-over.
I'm thinking rub-the-puppy's-nose-in-his-doo-doo. Take him down to the water and push his smarmy face through the sludge.
The people who claim these things are safe should be required to put their families on them as long as they're in use. Same goes for the people who build them. Add the CEO 's family to that list. And if anything happens while they're aboard, they get to be the last one's off. Any material thats spilled, they eat. This would be good coal mine policy as well. Safety standards should be at least as stringent as they would use to keep their own family safe in there.
IF the marshes are affected.
the security this website has for registration is goofy.
It really bothers the way BP and other companies get away with these lousy safety records. It's not just the oil business. This cavalier attitude towards safety seems to be rampant in the mining industry as well. The business attitude seems to be that certain workers are expendable. It's like a certain amount of "collateral damage" is acceptable.
Very small government was his goal, and he's accomplished it with the help of BushCo. No inspectors needed, as there are very few regulations and those that do exist are not enforced. Remember the peanut fiasco? That outrage is the way it is in almost all business situations. Any inspections, if any are done, occur every few years and the inspectors are paid off. If they weren't, then how did the filthy conditions go on for years. People who die because of what should be called criminal behavior are just collateral damage to corporations. You can't put a corporation in jail, now can you. And if they just file bankruptcy and go out of business, who compensates their victims? What a system. Geared to cover asses, but not yours.
"Respondeat superior" (Latin: "let the master answer") is a legal doctrine which states that, in many circumstances, an employer is responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their employment.[1] This rule is also called the "Master-Servant Rule". It is recognized in both common law and civil law jurisdictions.[2] (It is also sometimes written as respondeant superiores, the plural form.) ysb might want to speak to this?
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Imagine a Truck driver saying that after an accident... "It's Not Our Rig!... IT'S NOT OUR FAULT!" :-/
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Lamar McKay and his pal T Boone Pickens are lying scumbags.
Here is Gibbs on April 23 telling us about Obama's reaction to the unfolding environmental nightmare;
Asked whether Obama had second thoughts on offshore drilling, Gibbs said, "No."
Obama still believes that "we have to have a comprehensive solution to our energy problems," and the spill did not open up new questions about his drilling plan, he said.
"We've taken swift action to ensure the safety of those that are there and to ensure the safety to the environment by capping the exploratory well," Gibbs said.
"We need the increased production. The president still continues to believe the great majority of that can be done safely, securely and without any harm to the environment," he said.
Now that the entire Eastern seaboard is threatened, Obama has courageously put his drilling plan "on hold". ****il the furor dies down and a new story distracts us.)
And Gibbs is starting to sound like every other press sock puppet.
Times Square.
Day 1 1000 barrels a day.
Day 4 5000 barrels a day.
Day 9 25000 barrels a day.
Day ? thousands barrels of chemical dispersant to hide the problem.
is ever republican's fault.
Really starting to like this guy - I hope this is a permanent position for him. He is by a landslide the best of the bunch on Sunday mornings now. Might I suggest a new slogan for BP - "SPILL BABY, SPILL!"
It is Shill Baby Shill!
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100430/A...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
"BP is leasing the rig,"
Study the symptoms not the virus...
And it was Transoceanic crews working it.
And Haliburton did the shoddy work that caused the explosion.
So who really screwed the pooch here eh?
but they are all responsible. BP is not off the hook on this no matter what. These deals are deliberately assembled in such a way as to avoid culpability.
So moss just who is it that should take personal responsibility here. You talk like its nobody's fault/everybody's fault. Sounds like a cop out. Or are we only to assign personal responsibility to individuals?
It's Halliburtons fault.
They poured the concrete cap that failed, they have done exactly this same thing in Australia as well.
It IS BP's fault in the sense that they were leasing the rig and subcontracted Halliburton to do the work that caused the explosion.
And it is also Transoceanics fault because it was their personnel working the rig when it blew.
BP was the management, Halliburton was contracted for the piece work that failed and Transoceanic was providing the personnel to crew the rig (11 of whom died when blowout happened, meaning they were the ones doing the drilling).
This is how it worked:
BP had the geophys and field rights, they leased the rig from the company (Transoceanic in this case) that provides such things and subcontracted them to run it, and when the well needed capping they subcontracted to Halliburton who botched the job and is now having the right wing media take the heat off Dick and his pals by screaming about how it was management (BP) and not the subcontractors (Halliburton) who screwed the pooch.
And did BP hire Halliburton or was it Transoceanic picking the subcontractor in this accident? Haven't heard a word on that.
And you seem to buy their BS.
I wouldn't have had to explain it to you if you had followed the link I provided. Perhaps you could do that sometime in the future before responding to a post when the information you are bellowing about is in the link provided.
Some of the visitors to this site have definitely not lost sight of the fact that Halliburton employees were working on the well when it blew. In fact, given Halliburton's ties to Cheney, there are moments when I find myself wondering if this was entirely an accident. Yes, I gather that this is not the first oil well which has experienced a problem after Halliburton employees have worked on it -- but Cheney's behavior is often suggestive of a person Machiavellian enough to be capable of just about anything. Not only would this potentially create problems for Obama, the loss of both the rig for an indefinite period of time combined with all the oil flowing uselessly into the Gulf means that there is that much less oil available for use -- and the law of supply and demand suggests that when there is a decrease in supply but no accompanying decrease in demand, prices usually go up to compensate. We're also approaching the beginning of the summer when fuel demand tends to increase as a result of people going on vacation. Let's remember that we still know next to nothing about the mysterious Energy Task Force which Cheney was in charge of during the Bush administration...
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
If he could put the blame off on BP exclusively his company could walk away with clean up contracts, the Dems could be seriously damaged for the next election cycle and as you say oil prices could be driven through the roof.
Cheney is enough of a scumbag to try something like this as well.
Nice thought experiment, but I'm leaning toward shoddy workmanship by Halliburton combined with US corporate MSM redirecting the rage offshore to protect their own.
I think BP is big enough to defend themselves, though it's thoughtful of you to take an interest in this story and C&L's.
I myself think there are many who hold a Fiduciary responsibility with this tragedy. We'll have to see who gets the best lawyers. I'm not sure what the contracts say, though I'm sure the courts will.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
This is much, much worse than you think -- Cousteau is going to be a body of work about a long-lost planet. I picked up this comment from Grist, and I believe it is essentially correct.
A reader who is an engineer of considerable experience says watch this
one evolve carefully because it is destined to continue to grow and he
shares this long (but worthy) explanation why:
"Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this
morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are
totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.
First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a
day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day.
That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big
projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to
me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil.
They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another
30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of
what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil
at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the
way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink.
Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil
is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to
contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill
hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a
wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels
of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in
order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to
move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That
operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to
accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor?
There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a
nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the
right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans
of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000
gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the
magnitude of this?
I really wish I hadn't read that but it makes perfect sense to me. This one could be beyond our abilities to correct and even if we could plug it tomorrow, we would still be facing a disaster of monumental proportions. Is this the wake up call that we have so desperately been needing?
Nothing will wake these guys or the politicians whom they own ... up . Collateral damage is all this is . It's modern day Capitalism , $ and profits overrides any other consideration .Their greed , completely unchecked , will do us all in eventually .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
it's catastrophic. For all of us.
I feel so much better. And what about the future of desalination since we're running out of clean, fresh water? This whole thing is a huge clusterfuc*, if it's as he said, hello end of the world.
I guess the suggestion by one of BP's exec.s that they drop a 100 ton dome over the top isn't quite as laughable as I thought it was.
would know that 5000 bbls is equivalent to 210,000 gals. There is more than enough confusion, misinformation, etc without adding to it with false claims to authority. Maybe we should keep it simple and stick to "Huge ****up".
"When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill
hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean." This sounds like BS. The ROV footage of the Blowout Preventer does not back up this claim.
The rig is not on top of the bore hole.
You wouldn't have a link to that would you?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
ROV attempts to activate Deepwater Horizon BOP
A good point of contact for valid technical info is:
NOAA Response
And this guy has some in-depth photo and video documentation. (He may be active duty Coast Guard responding to the emergency)
USCGD8 Flickr
Here is a pic from one of the submersibles trying to shut off the BOP valve (which BTW WAS in place and failed contrary to MSM reporting):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ROV_Deepwat...
No debris and the wellhead is obviously accessible.
I read another report (can't find it now) that put the rig 1600" to the west of the well.
[On edit] Found this graphic of the current positions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uscgd8/455874587...
to both of you.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
If this poisons the ocean worldwide, the end result is likely to be what life scientists call an extinction event -- the termination of at least 50% (if not more) of all plant and animal species on this planet. It's estimated that oceanic phytoplankton is responsible for more of the oxygen content in our atmosphere than all land plants combined -- which means that if the phytoplankton die off, our own chances of surviving as a species are most likely slim at best. Even if this does not kill the phytoplankton, it could cause many if not most of the world's food chains which are either partly or completely dependent on the ocean to collapse -- and since few if any food chains exist in complete isolation, a collapse of one food chain can easily cause any others dependent on or connected to it to collapse like the ripples produced by dropping a stone into the water. (As just one example, a worldwide oceanic catastrophe would have dire consequences for the nation of Japan, since their food supply is heavily dependent on the ocean.) One way in which this could have an impact on human beings as a species is the fact that large numbers of animal corpses could become a breeding ground for disease.
If there's any credence to what this person is saying -- and I see no particular reason to doubt it (considering how comparatively few submersibles there are in the world, never mind the United States, which are even capable of going down as far as 5000 feet) -- we can at this point only pray to whatever deities may exist that we have not signed our own death warrant and that of our entire planet with this one industrial accident. If this leads to an extinction event, it sounds as if it could potentially rival the Permian-Triassic extinction (the worst one on record, based on the fossil evidence).
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
is not deep for a great number of submersible/ROV's. With enough money you can visit the Titanic at 12,600 ft deep as a tourist. Robert Ballard has visited the Bismarck at 15700 ft. The issue is working effectively at depth. Scuba has been used down to just over 1000 ft and Newt Suits are certified to @2000 ft. No help in this situation.
will be on the scene in his black shirt and $600 bush jacket reassuring us this is a rough, insecure, and unsafe world shortly.
He must be getting old.
to deal with the growing disaster in the Gulf. Check out the interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PsnrGWMVxU
One was funny as blazes because it shows the mentality of some of our political leaders. The other was just plain scary for the same reason.
Mr Lamar McKay fought government oversight and safety rules touth and nail..Spread money around Washington like it was dirt to enable them to have their way
Now that they F--ked up the entire gulf of mexico shore line foe the
coming fifty years or so, this corrupt a$$ whole states that BP is working closely with Government Organizations and agencies.
Spare me, I'm laughing so hard, I can not catch my breath
The whole legal system of "contracting" is a way of sheltering money from responsibility. (Kind of like "credit default swaps")
This is a very old practice in the coal industry, and before it is over you will hear Massey Energy explain that they have no responsibility for the miners or procedures followed in that mine. It was run by a contractor called Performance Coal. They employed the miners and set the practices and directed the operation. Massey only owned the coal, the physical mine and the equipment. When you finally go after Performance Coal you will find a company with no money and its headquarters in a construction trailer. Blankenship is protected by the sacred "corporate veil".
Likewise if you try to track down those responsible for an abandoned polluting mine, you find a defunct corporation.
In the old days each individual miner was a contractor responsible for his own pick and shovel who had to pay for the black powder they used to shoot down the coal. Often they had to bring in their own roof timbers to shore up their individual work area. They were payed by the ton for how much coal they shot, loaded and hauled out of the mine them selves. The coal was weighed by a company man who was allowed to deduct the weight of extra rock he judged was mixed with the coal.
"Sixteen tons and what do you get" refers to a miner who shot down and loaded sixteen tons of coal in a day.
I hope every ton of coal and every gallon of oil will stoke the fires of hell where these owners and managers are sent.
With all the money the government is going to end up spending on this that will not be reimbursed....just who is it who's sucking off the government teat because of their bad decisions now?
The people who still vociferously defend deregulation should be dropped into the middle of the spill to drown.
Which company deducts the physical rig as en expense against their income? It's their rig.
BP ought have all of its oil leases canceled/confiscated. those are federally granted leases that the government grants on behalf of the People, who are the owners of all America's assets. These oil companies need to be reminded of just exactly who it is that owns all that oil, and that they have access to it only at our, the People's, pleasure.
If they're capable of installing a puppet state in Iran, they're capable of keeping this from happening.
Good Pollution - No Cost to BP
Bad Pollution - Cost to BP
Yes, you are. The government was proposing that the rules be mandatory and you fought tooth and nail to keep them voluntary. Your statement is a lie.
your "aggressive" response isn't doing diddly. The people doing the work are US government employees.
We believe you. That line didn't work when I tried to use it on my dad and it ain't working now. It's BP's job to know. What's really interesting is that these masterminds in the big corporations think they can use it and we'll go along with it. Where did that come from?
Jeanne
The damn thing is 5000 feet down -- at least several hundred feet deeper than any large submarine manufactured by man has ever been able to go while still maintaining structural integrity. According to a news report on NPR, it took ten months to stop a somewhat similar spill in the Gulf back in 1980 -- a spill which is considered the second worst on record, and which was only 164 feet down. Here's the link:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/05/o...
Granted, there have been a lot of technological improvements in the thirty years since then -- but the fact remains that we still don't have the technological capability to conduct any large-scale manned operations at that depth. There are small submersibles such as ALVIN which are capable of reaching that depth (small because anything larger would not maintain structural integrity at the depths to which it can go), but comparatively few -- in my opinion, manufacturing more of these should probably be considered a top priority and commence immediately. However, information on the internet seems to confirm that most large submarines which attempted to descend to that depth would almost certainly implode before reaching even three-quarters (or perhaps even half) of that distance.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
"Alvin carries two scientists and a pilot as deep as 4,500 meters (about three miles or 14700 ft) and each dive lasts six to ten hours." Alvin is not an appropriate submersible for this situation anyway. Large is an subjective term. While the exact depth is classified, it is commonly thought that the operating depth for SSN/SSBN submarines is below 1000 ft. Still not an appropriate tool but you're mistaken on the technology in general.
So this is what we've come to.
The chairman of a billion dollar corporation who probably made 10's of millions of dollars for himself using the "I/We didn't do it" Bart Simpson Defense.
I guess that's what he gets paid the big bucks for, not for his brilliance, but for his sheer audacity and being incredibly driven not to assume responsibility.
But Wall St has gotten away so far with their "The Brown People Did It" defense. This guy has read their Lessons Learned documents.
If the republican/corporatist says "I didn't do X", the media takes them at their word. Until that changes, nothing else will.
So the defense is valid.
Halliburton did it with the help of Transocean personnel.
It's kind of like this:
Say you lease a truck for your moving company. (BP leasing from Transocean)
You hire a moving crew from the leasing company. (Transocean)
You have the truck brakes serviced at Midas. (Halliburton)
The brakes fail a week after servicing and the hired crew of movers wrecks the truck into a crowded cafe.
So who's fault is it?
As the company that leased the trucks and subcontracted the crews is the blame for a shoddy brake done by someone else's shop job yours?
Will BP be sued?
Probably.
Will Halliburton or Transocean get sued for as much?
Probably not, they are US companies and the focus is on destroying the foreigners there.
Think it's not? Just read the comments here by people who are supposedly better informed than the average Joe in the states and then think again.
to buy off as many regulators senators and congress critters as possible.
that's who's responsible for this fiasco! The buck eventually stops somewhere... it used to be those in charge, except we all know those CEOs and other executives getting the big bonuses and paychecks haven't taken responsibility for anything except screwing things up and getting paid big-time for that!
Sounds like a Spineless, Gutless Right Wing COWARD PLUTOCRAT to me. Lets see if this piece of SHIT was in that meeting with the AMERICAN TRAITOR cheney, lets see if this low life SCUM BAG, was one of the ones that didn't want to use a $500,000, kill switch.
I notice just like a SPINELESS, GUTLESS, RIGHT WING piece of GARBAGE this CLOWN hasn't a thing that is worth hearing.
Notice Gutless, Spineless Right Wing rhetoric I didn't do it.
You IDIOTS want to put these CLOWNS MORONS and COWARDS back in POWER you are a bunch of sick puppies.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - the slave trade wasn't your fault, fucking up Palestine wasn't your fault and setting the stage for the Vietnam War wasn't your fault. Did I leave a few hundred out?
I love how they argue even now that the solution is no new government involvement, but in order to assure the public that this won't happen again, they have to say that they are "working very closely with the government."
May 8, 2010
The catastrophe commonly referred to as the Gulf Oil Spill by the Main Stream Media (MSM) has grown to be a major story.
Omissions Department: Shouldn’t this disaster be more appropriately referred to as the “BP Oil Spill”? Come on now; let’s tell it, like it is, MSM… Oh! How come no pictures or video of the ocean floor where the oil is gushing up from??? I’m SURE there is MUCH FOOTAGE of this! Anyone?
The British Petroleum (BP) oilrig explosion off the Louisiana coast that started the mess happened April 20 in an explosion that killed 11 workers at an oilrig operated by BP PLC.
While the chant “Drill Baby Drill!” may not be echoing off the walls of congress lately, I would posit that a better area of focus might be on an investigation as to:
1.) How did the explosion happen?
2.) Can any measures be taken to prevent the same event happening with the existing oilrigs out there?
3.) Liability standards set for any compensation from the owners of the oilrigs.
I personally cannot put a price tag on what may eventually be the worst environmental disaster since the great flood of Noah’s day…
… I do think that for BP to be actively going to the poorest areas of the gulf to offer a $5000.00 payment (as you read this…),“Not to Sue” them in the future to desperate land and business owners there to be disingenuous if not downright dishonest at best.
As the BP Oil Spill grows and grows, so should our focus on what is happening in/to the Earth today.
Hal
My Green Earth Forever
... Not a dream, but a reality!
Sickening, disheartening, should have never happened.
There were not the appropriate safeguards in place, and heads should roll over this one.
http://news.suite101.com/article.cfm/bp-goes-...
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