Posted on 05/27/2010 1:33:37 PM PDT by NoLibZone
The Minerals Management Service, a division within the Interior Department, was a troubled agency long before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the recent revelations of employee misconduct.
The agency -- which oversees U.S. offshore drilling, including the Gulf of Mexico -- has come under fire for mismanagement, questionable conduct and cozy relationships with industry officials.
The MMS issued permits for the Deepwater Horizon drill rig -- contracted by BP -- which exploded on April 20. The explosion killed 11 people and resulted in an oil spill that is threatening parts of the Gulf.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Did I hear correctly that uhbama partied instead of attending a memorial service for the man who died on that rig? Putrid.
Wait’ll they get their hands on healthcare!
How many miles out into the ocean can the USA control what is happening?
I thought there was a 12 mile limit & beyond that it was called International Waters.
Can anyone clarify? Thx.
Bush’s fault. Obviously.
A few notes:
President Obama can't even get the name of the agency right ("Minerals Management Service:" http://www.mms.gov/ ) - in at least two public pronouncements, he has referred to a critical agency in his own executive branch as the "Minerals and Management Service." If he doesn't even know the NAME of the primary agency responsible for regulating offshore drilling, how closely do you really think he is watching things?
Hmmm?
I will also note, since the President has tarred & feathered the MMS as fostering a "culture of corruption" (by the way, neither the Clinton OR Obama White House staffs could have qualified as 'clean' under the DOI IG's standards), that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), currently in charge of the MMS, courtesy of Comrade Obama, found itself just recently before the Supreme Court. Why? Because the BLM was itself an extremely corrupt organization. I have never before quoted Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but when even an extreme liberal highlights corruption, maybe the public should wake up:
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials in Wyoming made a careless error. They failed to record an easement obtained for the United States along a stretch of land on the privately owned High Island Ranch. Plaintiff-respondent Frank Robbins purchased the ranch knowing nothing about the easement granted by the prior owner. Under Wyoming law, Robbins took title to the land free of the easement. BLM officials, realizing their mistake, demanded from Robbins an easement—for which they did not propose to pay—to replace the one they carelessly lost. Their demand, one of them told Robbins, was nonnegotiable. Robbins was directed to provide the easement, or else. When he declined to follow that instruction, the BLM officials mounted a seven-year campaign of relentless harassment and intimidation to force Robbins to give in. They refused to maintain the road providing access to the ranch, trespassed on Robbins’ property, brought unfounded criminal charges against him, canceled his special recreational use permit and grazing privileges, interfered with his business operations, and invaded the privacy of his ranch guests on cattle drives.
WILKIE v. ROBBINS (No. 06-219), http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-219.ZX.html
Obama is just killing the chickens (at MMS) and putting the fox (BLM) in charge...
Hmmm?
And quite obviously, BLM has no expertise in ethics (see Wilkie v. Robbins)...
;>)
Do you suppose that the thin-skinned one remembered the reception, or lack therein, that he received at the coal miner's funeral and decided that he didn't want to repeat that humiliating performance?
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