Poll: What will happen first? 1) Great, great, grandchildren of oil spill victims will be compensated for their loss? 2) Great, great, grandchildren of tax payers will finally pay off the debt Obama is building? Okay...I'll say something nice about Obama. He looks good in a suit.
You guys are gonna love this link: News comment of the day: GOP is rebranding itself as Grand Oil Party | NOLA.com I'm getting out of the way now, please excuse me...:hihi:.
Guys, I'm against the shutdown of all deepwater drilling in the Gulf. My business will, in short order, be adversely affected by the moratorium. There has to be a way in which all the rigs and platforms can be put in compliance without 20,000 to 30,000 layoffs. But, you understand what the president is faced with? The MMS is totally untrustworthy because it is corrupted at the top with oil company shills. here's a link to an article that sheds light on just how committed the MMS is to safeguarding the trust the American public placed in it. A lot more about the seenoevil, hearnoevil, speaknoevil MM$ will be coming out of all the hearings soon....about how the upper level management of the MMS recieved kickbacks and jobs in the oilfield once permits were granted. If you think BP is lying....The MMS is just as bad. People are gonna go to jail over this. The feds take public trust very seriously. Heck, Eddie Price (ex mayor of Mandeville) just got five years for betraying the public trust by corruption...and he cooperated...and his cooperation resulted in the heads of parish presidents from Jefferson and St Charles parishes. BP says MMS never enforced blowout preventer law | NOLA.com "BP acknowledged in a recent letter that it has routinely failed to comply with a federal regulation requiring drilling companies to certify that their blowout preventers are able to block a runaway well."
Cameron made it. And they are among the best on the planet. after the things I've read, i no longer believe the BOP was at fault. with the cement job being complete, something below that BOP blew out. cement, and possibly fragments of pipe being forced into the BOP probably damaged it to a point that it wasn't going to work. everything follows the lease holder's specs (in this case, BP) if Transocean followed BPs guidelines, they're in the clear. still a big IF until the investigation is complete. but the more I educate myself on the way things are supposed to work, and the way things "allegedly" worked on this particular rig, BP is in a world of sh!t.
Cameron Iron works made the BOP in 1999 and , apparently they wrote a letter to the MMS advising them to deny the BP permit because it had hydraulic and electrical problems and BP didn't want to send the BOP to Cameron to be rebuilt. In my post above there's a link to an article that says that the MMS never required BP to prove that the BOP even worked despite the law that says the inspection is required. The article says that the MMS employee that granted the permit didn't even know that the law was even there. From what I've read, it does seem the problem was below the BOP level. They're looking into how the casing was stabilized before the cementing. This is all way out of my league, but it sure looks like the oil is flowing out the BOP so I imagine it had to fail also.
i thought it did. i was reading the other day how because of all the appeals and foot dragging that a lot of people who had damages due to the valdez spill died without ever seeing a penny. my first thought was "god, i hope that doesnt happen to people in the gulf". if history repeats itself in that way, victims of bp's bungling are gonna be screwed.
