--- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000" <steve.sun...@...> wrote: > > You forgot #4. Obama is somehow responsible for this. There > should be a tie in of some sot.
He's partly responsible. He's had a lot on his plate, and reforming the Minerals Management Service at the Interior Department, whose lax supervision (encouraged by the Bush administration) had allowed BP (and other oil companies) to get away with all kinds of life- and environment- endangering crap, wasn't at the top of his priority list. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that. But only three weeks before the BP disaster, Obama was all for expanding drilling in the Gulf and off Alaska and the East Coast, despite warnings of how potentially dangerous it would be. He's declared a 30-day moratorium on new offshore drilling licenses, but that really isn't anywhere near enough to get things under control. We'll see how resistant he is to pressure to ramping it all up again. > > --- In [email protected], "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > > > 1. BP is not allowing inspection of information from acoustic mapping of > > the undersea oil deposits in the water sub surface est to be 70% of the > > spill. BP is not releasing Hyper-spectral surface pictures of the spill > > area for analysis with University marine science collected by the US Gov. > > > > 2. BP is not conducting surveillance and allowing the other assets in the > > combined command to talk to the press about what they are finding. > > > > 3. BP has more liability under the surface than they do on the top and a > > conflict of interest in management of the oil spill mitigation and gets it > > authority from a cozy agreement with US Dept of Interior. > > Posted by BPoilworker May 17, 2010 10:13 PM > > > > Comment #904 "The Big Picture" > > > > http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/disaster_unfolds_slowly_in_the.html > > >
