Enquiring minds want to know who were the incompetents?
wow. this is very nearly a smoking gun. the obama administration knew, yet did nothing. LIHOP! (heh. been waiting years to say that.)
I wonder if this story will punch through the reality distortion zone that blinds the MSM when it comes to the obamites’ incompetence.
The MS is a completely captive regulator. It was a revolving door for oil industry administrators. It was lapdog of the industry, rubber-stamping the applications that were sent to it.
MMS had been making sure that the industry’s interests were served at the expense of citizen’s interests. Over the past ten years, MMS has done everything it could to get regulation and government out of the way of business.
You can’t have it both ways. A regulatory agency can serve the people or the business it regulates. If you want government to leave business alone, this is what you will get.
Too bad the environazis forced us into the extreme places left to drill.
Pray for the Gulf
Here is information on how BOP’s are built, and the problems with using them in the deep.
http://drillingcontractor.org/dcpi/dc-mayjune07/DC_May07_BOP.pdf
How far did they drill down beyond the gulf floor and what is the wellhead pressure? Anyone know?
That's why the "top kill" method failed
Of course, the volume of oil leaking would be much lower
Articles such as this are often written to take advantage of people’s lack of interest in doing their own research. Unless people read and understand “three studies conducted for the US Minerals Management Service” there will be incorrect statements such as shown on many posts here and on other threads.
bfl