Posted on 05/02/2019 5:37:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Trump administration moved Thursday to give oil and gas companies more flexibility in meeting safety requirements imposed after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed nearly a dozen people and was the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.
The revised rules, which govern safety standards at offshore wells, come as the administration pushes to expand drilling off the U.S. coast, although court challenges and opposition from many coastal states have slowed its efforts.
The new safety changes were sought by the industry but fiercely challenged by environmentalists.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in a statement the administration was acting to eliminate “unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining safety and environmental protection offshore.”
Officials picked Louisiana’s Port Fourchon, a hub for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, to announce the changes. Port workers in hard hats and reflective safety vests applauded speakers’ calls for easing regulations. …
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Step One: No parts from China, save for maybe bamboo chopsticks in the dinning area...
The reality is everyone else is using cheap parts and drilling offshore as well.
There needed to be some solid tightening up.
The Obama Administration, however, went completely overboard and caused multiple of the economic harm of the Deepwater Horizon disaster itself.
I suspect that the industry learned its lesson after the accident anyway.
What, the flip, ever.
Removed BS government red-tape and inane regulations more like it.
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