Trump policy of less safety and more offshore drilling is 'a recipe for disaster'

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump policy of less safety and more offshore drilling is 'a recipe for disaster'

Nine years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Trump administration is exacerbating the industry’s ‘systemic failures’, report warns

Oliver Milman in New York
Thu 18 Apr 2019 09.00 BST Last modified on Thu 18 Apr 2019 09.02 BST

Offshore oil and gas drilling in the US is plagued by “systemic failures” in oversight that are being worsened by Trump administration attempts to expand drilling and roll back safety requirements, a new report has warned.

The analysis of public documents by the conservation group Oceana found that while some minor improvements have been made since the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, a system of lax oversight, paltry fines and overstretched inspectors risks further major oil spills.

This situation is further deteriorating due to the Trump administration opening up almost all US waters to offshore drilling, as well as repealing Obama-era safety rules put in place after the Deepwater Horizon spill, according to the report, released on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the disaster.

“Less safety and more drilling is a recipe for disaster,” said Diane Hoskins, campaign director at Oceana. “We should be implementing safety reforms, not rolling back what we have. Nearly 10 years on from the BP disaster, overarching failures haven’t been remedied.”

The report criticizes the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling, for relying upon industry-written standards and for regularly granting exemptions to safety rules.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/18/offshore-drilling-trump-administration-safety-oil-spills

[democratisphere]

1. Everyday is more chaos and destruction with this a-hole.

[duforsure]

2. trump's doing to us and OUR environment

The same thing they did to Flint and their water system, only on a much larger scale . Why? For profits , and could care less about anyone's safety, especially for workers. He represents corporations , and not the American people , or its workers.