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Why would feds need a plan. They got Obama to run things.........
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100609/..._sketchy_plans
But I bet some people were drunk during a party on the rig!Among the glaring errors in the report: A professor is listed in BP's 2009 response plan for a Gulf of Mexico oil spill as a national wildlife expert. He died in 2005.
The plan lists cold-water marine mammals including walruses, sea otters, sea lions and seals as "sensitive biological resources." None of those animals live anywhere near the Gulf.
Also, names and phone numbers of several Texas A&M University marine life specialists are wrong. So are the numbers for marine mammal stranding network offices in Louisiana and Florida, which are disconnected.
Why would feds need a plan. They got Obama to run things.........
"A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater."
"Regaining well control in deep water may be a problem since it could require the operator to cap and control well flow at the seabed in greater water depths . . . and could require simultaneous firefighting efforts at the surface."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/0...ill-risks.html
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The Repugs/ head created a drill, baby, drill, drill now, drill fast, drill everywhere and the regulations and precautions. Typical Repug childish, bad-faith, willful misgovernment.
"BP Disaster Response Plan Severely Flawed "
Ya think?
I'm not sure if you're quite familiar with disaster response, but you can have a great disaster response plan that doesn't work for various reasons. But having a disaster plan that's as bad as this? Just unacceptable, both on BP's part, and the government agency who was supposed to review these type of things.
Steffy: U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise
Heck of a job, Barry!Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.
It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.
The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.
Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline, BP and our government have reconsidered.
That's the ticket.It's all Obama's fault!
Dumb of us to turn down all the kindly offers of assistance but OTOH, foreign eyes on the accident might have rendered it more palpably international in its impressions and effects.
Giant, kick-ass, can-do America "out sourcing" cleaning up their self-inflicted to tiny NL wouldn't have gone down well with US firms, who should have been first option.
If the US couldn't handle it, then outsiders should have been welcome.
Yeah, because BP (British Petroleum) is an American company and all...
It would be Bush's fault if he were president, at least according to the left. I don't see the right saying it's Obama's fault. Why is the left so hypocritical in not saying it's Obama's fault?
That's well taken, Yoni.
I didn't say there wasn't already an international angle, just that more international exposure would have challenged us all the more.
The accident has a distinctly international flavor by now: it is a single frame of US-British relations.
And, coming soon to a bumper near you!
Last edited by Yonivore; 06-10-2010 at 08:38 PM.
Well you buddy Obama and his union thugs don't want a little know law
waivered, like Bush did during Katrina. The Jones Act of 1920.
"Foreign companies possessing some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships say they are being kept out of efforts to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf because of a 1920’s law known as the Jones Act -- a protectionist law that requires vessels working in US waters be built in the US and be crewed by US workers."
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"Waivers to the Jones Act were granted by the administration of George W. Bush in the days following hurricane Katrina. And today, the Obama White House said waivers might again be considered.
“If there is the need for any type of waiver, that would obviously be granted,” said White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs. “But, we've not had that problem thus far.”"
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2...est=latestnews
Don't you just love Obama and gang. Right on top of things.
Don't Yoni and Ray count?
However this may be, considerable foreign assistance was turned down in the aftermath of Katrina."Waivers to the Jones Act were granted by the administration of George W. Bush in the days following hurricane Katrina. And today, the Obama White House said waivers might again be considered.
I don't recall them saying it's Obama's fault.
Am I wrong? Link please.
I don't blame him for the blow out; I blame him for the poor federal response.
Fair enough, YV.
Me? Not especially. I thought the USG could and can do more to be helpful, if only by getting out of the way.
Whereas Yoni seemed to be straight up pining for a robust Federal response.
I wonder whether he would have welcomed it with the same sympathy attached to its description, had things been otherwise.
damm hidesight is ususally 20/20
laws are above the president
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