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Follow the money... to Obama and Rahm’s cozy apt. for BP execs.
Wouldn't matter how many exemptions, etc that BP asked for, got, or ignored, or waded into up to their necks, the facts are that one "whistleblower" had already caused BP so much grief (and external costs) over the issue of "brown mud" that their working field managers were HYPERSENSITIVE to anything that might appear to be excessive use of the material.
It was that, the fear of extremely costly lawsuits, not the relatively modest cost of drilling operations, that had that manager recoiling from the continued use of "brown mud".
We can blame the entire BP Gulf Blowout on this one guy ~ Chuck Hamel!
He also seems to have been very instrumental in stopping drilling at ANWR.
The guy's doing a heck of a job protecting the reindeer, but he's just killed the Gulf of Mexico!
This whole mess explains why Gov. Palin formed a state office in AK to “babysit” (for lack of a better term) the oil companies. It was to MAKE SURE they were not taking any safety shortcuts, cutting corners, and following the contracts as written....to the letter.
She said, in an interview with Greta about a month ago, that the same people giving shady answers in Congress then (about their drilling and safety practices), were the same people who did the same with her. Right in her office and sitting across the table from her. While she didn’t call it outright lying, she meant outright lying.
But she doesn’t know anything about oil drilling. I know this because Baghdad Bob Gibson told me so.