Chief Counsel's Report (Released 02/17/2011) Macondo 252 well

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If you study and read through this report you will understand why we need to regulate and control the greedy oil industry.
#1 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and screw, family and lives, EPA, and environment,
safety.

This shows how they acted like a bunch of drunks , disregarding warning and procedures and even their air bag (BOP) failed on the DWI.

http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/chief-counsels-report

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1. I don't even need to study it to know we need to control *all* corporations.

Immortal entities with no mandate but to make money? And no controls or limits to speak of? That have recently been given the status of human beings? 'Nuff said.

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2. Deepwater Horizon explosion stemmed from a failure of management: Editorial

reckon Joe Barton sent the family members and apology after reading the report?

"An act of God" LOL he is smoking some good shit.:rofl:



BP officials weren't paying attention when it counted most on the Deepwater Horizon -- when critical tests on the well's ability to withstand a blowout were being run and when signs of a problem arose.

That's the conclusion of Fred Bartlit Jr., the lead counsel for the national Oil Spill Commission. He released a 371-page addendum to the commission's report last week that outlines how profoundly BP management failed -- and how that failure caused the disaster.




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The Oil Spill Commission said previously that it couldn't say whether anyone at BP or the other companies purposely chose riskier options to save money -- despite evidence cited by the commission's own review and other investigators that BP has a record of taking shortcuts that have led to other disasters.

But the addendum does point out a serious omission. Focusing on efficiency to save rig time and costs is common in the offshore oil industry, the addendum says. "But management processes must ensure that measures taken to save time and reduce costs do not adversely affect overall risk. BP's management processes did not do so."

In other words, BP took a gamble with safety. The cost was people's lives and livelihoods.

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http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2011/02/deepwater_horizon_explosion_st.html

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4. Here are the drunks from the lineup - positively identified

The Oil Spill Commission's charge was to find the root causes of the disaster, and the addendum says that the technical root cause is clear: Cement pumped to the bottom of the well by BP and Halliburton didn't seal off hydrocarbons in the formation.

While Halliburton disputes that, BP's own investigators have agreed that the cement seal failed.

:grr:

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3. "bunch of drunks"

Yes you will know them by their stagger.

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5. Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead

Yahoo News 2/21/11
Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead

WASHINGTON – Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.

That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012.

At a science conference in Washington Saturday, marine scientist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia aired early results of her December submarine dives around the BP spill site. She went to places she had visited in the summer and expected the oil and residue from oil-munching microbes would be gone by then. It wasn't.

"There's some sort of a bottleneck we have yet to identify for why this stuff doesn't seem to be degrading," Joye told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington. Her research and those of her colleagues contrasts with other studies that show a more optimistic outlook about the health of the gulf, saying microbes did great work munching the oil.

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6. Just wait till they have a big storm

And the petro/tar mat are pushed inland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkqCcVK8-JI&feature=player_embedded

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7. Thanks. I could have found it if I had the time, but

I get so many good leads on DU for discussion for my government students.

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8. moratorium

Amazing how the RW tries to blame Obama for:
no OCS drilling when it was Reagan, GHWB, GWB, and Neal bush whom passed the permit and bands for drilling.
permitting OCS drilling
Macondo blow out
lack of clean up (Big oil permits require cleanup capacity)
moratorium ( Big oil has no no clean up equipment so they have a moratorium)
GOM unemployment in OS oil and the whole GOM industry when the blow out caused all of it.


Now they are blaming Obama for just now starting to release OCS permits because Helix will have GOM clean equipment By end of month that meet the requirements for the GOM OCS drilling.

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9. Dig into Fracking

It is another Big oil cover up.

Go to propublica site for information. Also look at the Gaslands film on hbo


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html?_r=2

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/02/11/bromwich-feds-arent-sitting-on-piles-of-drilling-permits/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/10/fracking-epa-plans-to-exa_n_821011.html


http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2011/02/investigator_bp_knew_of_proble.html

http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/02/oil_companies_unveil_spill_con.html

http://www.propublica.org/