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5 Responses to “Is British Petroleum trying to start another revolutionary war with this oil spill controversy?”
British Petroleum would love it to be a controversy. It’s not. It’s a tragedy caused by corporate carelessness and greed.
The best way to fight it is to abandon partisanship on this one issue and agree that it’s long past time to invest in serious research on alternative energy sources. And to stop drilling in uncontrollable circumstances.
BP has a record of 823 violations in the US for safety protocols as administered by OSHA. The average of all oil companies doing business in the US is 8. BP paid $87 million in fines in 2009. This means something only because money compensates for what should be shut down. When we learn all there is about this blow out and spill, we will learn that the Minerals Mgt Section of the Dept of Interior has not enforced stringent inspections in oil platform and wellhead construction, nor has it enforced rigid inspections of the manufacturing process of platform and well head equipment and assembly. The BP platform involved has been under development within the past 18 months and the well head equipment was installed within the past 12 months. This negligence in administration of oil, particularly in deep well development is obvious, and it has been going on with the Obama Administration to the extent it has taken place under the Bush, Clinton and other Administrations. Our government is as inept as the result of this BP project, which is a failure!
June 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
British Petroleum would love it to be a controversy. It’s not. It’s a tragedy caused by corporate carelessness and greed.
The best way to fight it is to abandon partisanship on this one issue and agree that it’s long past time to invest in serious research on alternative energy sources. And to stop drilling in uncontrollable circumstances.
June 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
No.
June 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
NO
June 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
No. How could this start a war?
June 5th, 2010 at 9:24 am
BP has a record of 823 violations in the US for safety protocols as administered by OSHA. The average of all oil companies doing business in the US is 8. BP paid $87 million in fines in 2009. This means something only because money compensates for what should be shut down. When we learn all there is about this blow out and spill, we will learn that the Minerals Mgt Section of the Dept of Interior has not enforced stringent inspections in oil platform and wellhead construction, nor has it enforced rigid inspections of the manufacturing process of platform and well head equipment and assembly. The BP platform involved has been under development within the past 18 months and the well head equipment was installed within the past 12 months. This negligence in administration of oil, particularly in deep well development is obvious, and it has been going on with the Obama Administration to the extent it has taken place under the Bush, Clinton and other Administrations. Our government is as inept as the result of this BP project, which is a failure!