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The Minerals Management Service was created on January 19, 1982.[3] In 1982, Congress passed the Federal Oil & Gas Royalty Management Act, which mandates protection of the environment and conservation of federal lands in the course of building oil and gas facilities. The Secretary of the Interior designated the MMS as the administrative agency responsible for the mineral leasing of submerged OCS lands and for the supervision of offshore operations after lease issuance.[4]
W/cheney?
FAIL
Yeah. Cheney.
The Energy Task Force, officially the National Energy Policy Development Group, was a task force created by then-president George W. Bush during his second week in office. Vice President Dick Cheney was named chairman. This group was intended to “develop a national energy policy designed to help the private sector, and, as necessary and appropriate, State and local governments, promote dependable, affordable, and environmentally sound production and distribution of energy for the future." Unfortunately for the American public, everything they did was secret.
Most of the activities of the Energy Task Force have not been disclosed to the public, even though Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (since 19 April 2001) have sought to gain access to its materials. The organizations Judicial Watch and Sierra Club launched a law suit under the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to the task force's materials. After several years of legal wrangling, in May, 2005 an appeals court permitted the Energy Task Force's records to remain secret.
The Deepwater Horizon oil well didn't have a remote-control shut-off switch. Why didn't it have a thing that it seems every single offshore drilling rig should have? Well, we DO know that Dick Cheney's energy task force decided that the $500,000 switches were too expensive, and they didn't want to make BP buy any. And since BP didn't want to buy them either, Cheney and his oil-buddy cronies didn't force them to.
FAIL is right. :doh
I agree that no drilling should be allowed unless we are sure the company has the caps, and equipment IN place to contain a spill..
If it were up to me, I shut down all offshore drilling, but I can live with this.
I blame BP, the last 3 administrations. failure of both republicans/democrats, government, and private industry...
I'll give you that there are plenty of people at fault here, but I've looked closely at what this administration can do and is doing, and I simply cannot understand what other/additional actions could have been expected of them or taken by them. Even people who are paid (at least in part) by the oil industry say there's nothing more that could reasonably be expected of the government at this juncture.
“It’s worse than politics,” said Larry Goldstein, a director of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, which is partly financed by the oil industry. “They have had the authority from Day 1. If they could have handled this situation better, they would have already.” --NYTimes
Clearly, you believe you know more about the situation than he does, but I'll take his word over yours any day. Sorry, pal.
You are making excuses for the government because your guy has the reigns...
Nope. I'm being realistic. You might try it some time.
Of course, it's possible you're not capable.
I'm also not overlooking the fact that you're a Tea Partying Drill, Baby, Drill-ite, nor the fact that you folks have got some 'splainin' to do to the people of the Gulf. :shrug: