One area of immediate concern, industry experts said, was the lack of a remote system that would have allowed workers to clamp shut Deepwater Horizon's wellhead so it would not continue to gush oil. The rig is now spilling 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico.
In a letter sent last year to the Department of the Interior, BP objected to what it called "extensive, prescriptive regulations" proposed in new rules to toughen safety standards. "We believe industry's current safety and environmental statistics demonstrate that the voluntary programs…continue to be very successful."
i agree with you except for one issue.....BP is entirely responsible for the cost of the clean up. period.Mr. Brown's theory, if in fact the report is accurate, is not helpful. Rather than going to "knee-jerk" approaches e.g., to permit or prohibit deepwater drilling, a genuine regulatory issue arises: what standards should be expected by regulators? In other words, should regulators insist on "best practices" for the activity that is within their regulatory jurisdiction?
From an ABC News blog:
The issue involved is a classic example of "tail risks" (very low probability/high-impact events). Just as had been largely rediscovered during the recent financial crisis, tail risk events can have huge adverse consequences when they play out.
IMO, if the net costs of an event are relatively low, then regulatory regimes should be constructed around those realities, among others. However, if the net costs of an event are very high/catastrophic, even if the probability of occurrence is very low, regulators should, at a minimum, probably err on the side of prudence and insist on best practices.
In the meantime, BP should not be vilified. It was not operating the rig in question. Its posture was a widespread one. Appreciation of tail risk events is still emerging and evolving.
Therefore, the lessons from this case should be learned and applied. To be sure, BP should contribute to financing the clean-up, cooperating to help gain better insight into what happened, etc., and to date, there is every indication that the company is working in a cooperative and productive fashion.
i agree with you except for one issue.....BP is entirely responsible for the cost of the clean up. period.
they have been trying to turn this into a joint responsbility, and it's clearly not.
Exactly right, I don't think that many people know just how many companies sub-contract on any single drilling operation. The main company has service companies, mapping companies, transit......etc. etc. But I would think that either the valve company or the company that laid down the base of the rig would be more responsible considering those are considered the two most likely reasons the rig failed.I doubt that. There are many parties involved that will have to pony up up some money. I would think that a prime contributor will be the company that made the shut-off valve that didn't perform as required.
From my POV Obama is handling this problem well and even handedly.
i agree with you except for one issue.....BP is entirely responsible for the cost of the clean up. period.
they have been trying to turn this into a joint responsbility, and it's clearly not.
ooops
somebody does not seem to recognize that michael brown is the former horse judge, appointed by dubya bin lyin, who failed in the fema efforts to assist new orleans
but i am willing to read how you have determined that he is an Obama adherent, as he is rubbing his hands together over this
ready, set, post
So why aren't we burning any of this stuff off? What has he done?
He's left it in the hands of the experts. I believe they are working hard to do what they can. He is putting pressure on the foreign company that we allowed to drill in our territorial waters. He's put a moratorium on new drilling for now.
What do you expect, for him to wave his magic wand?
In other words, he essentially done nothing, yet he's being praised by some for it.
I don't blame him a bit, just like I didn't blame Bush for Katrina.
Correct. Bush wasn't to blame for the disorder after Katrina. The president doesn't control everything. He does his best to appoint qualified people, but a lot of things can go wrong.
i agree with you except for one issue.....BP is entirely responsible for the cost of the clean up. period.
they have been trying to turn this into a joint responsbility, and it's clearly not.
On that, we agree entirely.
Maybe I'm on an island on this one, but why isn't more attention being paid to what caused the explosion? Did they figure it out and I missed the story?
Could this be an attack of some sort?
I was wondering that myself. The silence has been deafening regarding the cause of this calamity.
And it is THE biggest story, bar none. I don't want a bunch of fish and birds to die either, but if this was a terrorist attack and a sign of things to come, then that is where the focus should primarily be.
Someone did this. Oil platform don't have a history of just blowing up on their own. They withstand hurricanes for pete's sake.
Someone did this. Oil platform don't have a history of just blowing up on their own. They withstand hurricanes for pete's sake.
How do you know they don't? Have you researched it? Does the ability to withstand hurricanes make an oil rig more likely to prevent an accidental explosion? Have you counted the number of oil rig explosions in history?
Or are you just pulling some random idea out of your ass?
I'd like to vote for option 5, personally. I don't want to know what else is up there, either.
meanwhile, adults are quite concerned about the white house's completely inept response to this disastrous oil spill in the gulf
How do you know they don't? Have you researched it? Does the ability to withstand hurricanes make an oil rig more likely to prevent an accidental explosion? Have you counted the number of oil rig explosions in history?
Or are you just pulling some random idea out of your ass?
OK, I'll address the latest insult from the biggest punk on this board.
Where is the reporting on just what caused this? The media is all in a tizzy over this impending oil spill that so far hasn't done diddly (I'm not saying it won't).
Meanwhile, Obama is sending SWAT teams to the rig, not a word is being said, a 40-year-old white male who morphed into a young Pakistani dude tried to blast Manhattan, and illegal immigrants are shooting people in Arizona.
And no, if an oil platform has exploded in the last 40 years, I haven't heard about it. Have you?