Studies Suggest MMS knew Blowout Preventers had 'Critical' Flaws (Oil Spill)

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 6/17/2010 | Mark Clayton

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I forgot to address your comment about “cleaning house”. There is no cleaning house when the regulators are all union bureaucrats who are part of the liberal “green agenda”. The bureaucrats are simply complicit in the BP politicization.

For instance, the local activists an planning board in our county were determined to take control of the rural farms and property owners because they think that domestic animals are the cause of global warming. Their plan was to form storm water districts and charge the rural property owners a per square foot of impervious surface charge to make expensive changes to storm water drainage. The problem was that there was a huge commercial area in the water shed that would have more than covered the expense, so BP came up with the idea of submitting phony maps that left out all the commercial areas. The local politicians and activists (including land use lawyers) jumped on it and almost got it done. They knew what they were doing was illegal, but the lefties didn’t care. The end always justifies the means.