Posted on 05/03/2010 3:19:22 PM PDT by Nachum
If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land.
The problem: The federal government did not have a single fire boom on hand.
burn2.jpgView full size(AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 1st Class Justin Sawyer)This April 28, 2010 image made from video released by the Deepwater Horizon Response Unified Command, shows an in situ burn in the Gulf of Mexico, in response to the oil spill after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon. The "In-Situ Burn" plan produced by federal agencies in 1994 calls for responding to a major oil spill in the Gulf with the immediate use of fire booms.
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“So who is to blame for not having executed the government’s own 1994 plan to store containment booms at strategic spots?”
My recollection is that the Clinton Co-POTUS was in charge from Jan 20, 1993 to Jan 20, 2001.
You’re right, but it wasn’t his watch ... So it looks like “you’re doing a heck of a job Bami” is our guy. Opa 1990 assigns the task of oil spill containment to the office of the president. In this case, it’s our hey ‘it wasn’t me’ so-called president.
You know what they same about who is on watch. If you don’t recall what the lefties did to Bush a few years ago, and Bami is still blaming Bush for what Freddie and Fannie and their Democrats cohorts did with the financial system, Bush put forth 17 warnings in 2008 and the Democrats sat and fiddled.
Yes.
Clinton, the gift that keeps on giving.
Missing and presumed dead.
The media is more interested in 11 dead sea turtles than the dead oil workers.
Priorities, you know.
This is the critical piece in tghis report
“”They said this was the tool of last resort. No, this is absolutely the asset of first use. Get in there and start burning oil before the spill gets out of hand,” Bohleber said. “If they had six or seven of these systems in place when this happened and got out there and started burning, it would have significantly lessened the amount of oil that got loose.”
When i first heard this statement from the feds of burning being last resort I found that odd. These people must be made to explain why burning wasn’t conducted sooner
guess they are all downloading porno instead of working...
Uh,,, eleven missing.....
Until I see 11 bodies, I will think sabotage.
You too are correct. My reference to the ‘Clinton’ watch was because the ‘gov’ts own 1994 plan...’ and that was Clinton’s time in office. The Lefty Commie Lying SOB’s never want to take responsibility. Since they are not responsible, let’s get them out of there before they screw up anything else! Bambi is of course responsible, and failed this test, just as he has failed every other test during the year plus he has been the pretender and usurper.
This is the year we have to strip Congress of those who bow to him (while he bows to foreign leaders who are not our friends and thumbs his nose at our allies).
This scandal is on fire! Thank you! Adding to research. [Links in profile]
Question regarding Oil Spill: a new well could be dug deep beneath the sea in 90 days. Remember when rats complained that new oil rigs would take FIFTEEN YEARS? B.S. Just regulatory stumbling blocks.
Don’t forget that BP is a BRITISH company...I’m sure that has to be a factor as well......
Update ping....see above links.
60 minutes is doing a really good interview right now....
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The problem: The federal government did not have a single fire boom on hand.
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Our tax dollars NOT at work.
Instead they funded some ongoing criminal enterprise like ACORN.
Thank you! Haha! Funny how issues overlap. From global warming to climagegate to CCX to a poor emergency response scandal to power to attempting to make one’s own bungling a rallying cry for warmers.
Power as in energy? As in power? Both.
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