TDPS: One Year After Deepwater Horizon - Greg Palast Interview

[celtics23]

Run time: 10:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbWUhOTu5OA   Posted on YouTube: April 22, 2011 By YouTube Member: MidweekPolitics Views on YouTube: 176   Posted on DU: April 23, 2011 By DU Member: celtics23 Views on DU: 1047

 
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[HolyCity2012]

1. BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout September 2008

Greg Palast
Tue Apr-19-11

You've heard and seen much about the Gulf disaster that killed 11 BP workers. If you have not heard about the earlier blowout, it's because BP has kept the full story under wraps. Nor did BP inform Congress or US safety regulators, and BP, along with its oil industry partners, have preferred to keep it that way.

The earlier blowout occurred in September 2008 on BP's Central Azeri platform in the Caspian Sea.

As one memo marked "secret" puts it, "Given the explosive potential, BP was quite fortunate to have been able to evacuate everyone safely and to prevent any gas ignition." The Caspian oil platform was a spark away from exploding, but luck was with the 211 rig workers.


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[izquierdista]

2. Hmmm

Since I know Terry Hazen professionally, I have to wonder if Palast is relying on the doctrine of res ipsa bullshit.

[underseasurveyor]

3. And my neice and i have known Palast for more than 10 years.

She also worked for/with him for years. Palast does good works.

No one appreciates cold, hard truths anymore. That's a shame.

[izquierdista]

7. And on this one, he's let you down.

Impugning anyone who had money thrown in their direction to help BP sounds like sour grapes to me. Of course, all Palast can do is write, whereas Hazen is a scientist with an impressively long resume of solving environmental messes. Maybe that's why BP threw money at him instead of Palast.

I'm glad Terry had money thrown his way. He's more successful than I was with my technical proposals on how to remediate the problem.

[truth2power]

6. Really? What, that Palast says about Hazen is untrue? ..

Please tell us. Thanks.

[Overseas]

4. K&R and Many Thanks !

Excellent interview!

[Shining Jack]

5. That's so infuriating.

And there are people getting sick all around the coast because of this toxic calamity. Tony Hayward got rewarded and got more than his freaking life back. :(