HOW and WHY does BP have ALL of the power in this situation?!!!
Well they have power at the site of the well, because it’s their project, and they have the lease. They have power via their lawyers to bring down injunctions and slap suits to quiet people. They have billions and billions of dollars so they have friends in high places and bottomless pockets to pay people.
The Feds have plenty of power too. They could even seize the company and put it in the hands of other drillers who’ve got experience sealing major gushers.
Why hasn’t Obama done that? No, all he’s done is roll out Eric Holder, who said that all the agencies are investigating BP for breaking all those laws he listed yesterday- tons of environmental ones, too. The Coast Guard is handling a lot of cleanup. They had to recall all the 125 commercial fishing boats they’d hired out to help with the cleanup when the illness reports started.
Litigation forever. Yeah, all the lawyers are rubbing their hands in anticipation.