Did Government Officials Actually Read BP's Oil Spill Response Plan?

[maddezmom]

Did Government Officials Actually Read BP's Oil Spill Response Plan?
Wednesday May 26, 2010
¬snip¬

The BP Regional Oil Spill Response Plan - Gulf of Mexico, dated June 30, 2009, covers all of the giant oil company's offshore operations in the Gulf, not just the Deepwater Horizon, which caused the massive oil spill that is spreading out of control and threatening fragile ecosystems and local economies all along the Gulf Coast. The BP regional oil spill plan for the Gulf of Mexico:


•Contains no information about tracking sub-surface oil plumes from deepwater blowouts such as those now billowing from the damaged oil well that the Deepwater Horizon was drilling before it exploded on April 20;


•Lists "Sea Lions, Seals, Sea Otters Walruses" as "Sensitive Biological Resources" in the Gulf, showing pretty clearly that some portions of the plan were copied from plans previously prepared for Arctic exploration;


•Gives a a Japanese home shopping website as the link to one of its "primary equipment providers for BP in the Gulf of Mexico Region rapid deployment of spill response resources on a 24 hour, 7 days a week basis;"

more: http://environment.about.com/b/2010/05/26/did-government-officials-actually-read-bps-oil-spill-response-plan.htm

[FrenchieCat]

1. The Government ain't worth shit.

In terms of priorities, it is possible that it wasn't read...since BP is one
of various oil companies doing drilling offshore for years now....
And since they probably didn't have any way of knowing that in the shitstorm
of redoing all of government from top to bottom in a little over a year,
that this would be the next disaster, specific to BP, they may have been
doing a whole lot of things in reference to energy,
cause there was so much to fucking do.

But since this administration ain't worth anything,
perhaps it is best that it isn't the government
that owned those rigs in all of those years,
cause the shit might have gotten fucked up long ago.

I'm relieved that we are going after government as being ineffective and lame....
cause that's what the tea party folks believe too.

Plus it takes the pressure off of BP! So I think this approach is a winner!

[maddezmom]

3. I'd say the people that were responsible for reading this report aren't worth shit

as for the whole of gov't, I'd disagree.

[TexasObserver]

2. Yes, this proves the company used a badly reformatted Arctic plan.

Big companies virtually run the government sectors charged with regulating them. First they oppose regulation. Once it happens, they take over the regulation process.

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. That buck shouldn't have stopped with BP.

ANY administration should have carefully read this report and all options considered, not just BP's. Once the gusher began, this line of defense was critical to the area.

[ixion]

5. I believe they were probably preoccupied with hookers and a meth pipe

from what I've been reading.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. BP has an excellent response plan

1. Get signed nondisclosure agreements from any survivors.
2. Mobilize public relations personnel.
3. Mobilize legal defense teams.
4. Contribute even more lavishly to Representatives and Senators.
5. Launch far-reaching search for patsies and scapegoats.

:thumbsup:

[Octafish]

7. That's the plan.

Survivors said the first thing they had to do on reaching land was provide a urine sample.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7000866.html

[Octafish]

8. PEER is Tops!

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1351

K&R

[CanonRay]

9. Does it talk about chewing gum for leaks?

Just wonderin'