#2 Why send a Swat team rather than Coast Guard rescue?
This whole situation stinks of double deals, and absolute foolishness. This well could have been sealed within 2 weeks if BP was willing to lose the well.They were given a chance to "recover the well", and played right into Obama's "nationalize the oil companies" plan.Fact: Obama could care less about the environment. He just wanted an anchor issue to nationalize oil corporations using the EPA.
We know how Barry Soetoro works. Get ready for a few months of , " The dirty rotten Oil companies." "The dirty rotten" oil company image was created by Barry Soetoro, for your consumption, and he ruined miles of coastline to get his way in nationalizing oil companies. Its the Alinsky way, no crisis will go unexploited.This oil incident may even have been created, just like the pre election financial crisis was created on Sept 17th 2008 by a 500 billion electronic bank run on the fed. We still don't know the names of the foreign banks that did that. WHY?
And lets see now, thats after the dirty rotten banks, dirty rotten wall street, dirty rotten drug companies, dirty rotten Health Insurance Companies, dirty rotten auto companies , dirty rotten Huteree Militia ( all out on bail BTW)and the dirty rotten Israelis.Only the Israelis will not be nationalized, but Barry is working on using the Iranian Red Crescent to violate the sovereignty of their country.
And you don't see a pattern here? Its laughable.You are either the most gullible person on FR, or a closet OBOT.
Barry Sotoero is the biggest treasonous schill we have ever had to contend with. He should be frog marched into the nearest federal pen, after being charged with sedition,criminal fraud and treason.
#1 The US has no criminal jurisdiction if the rig is further than 20 miles off shore, except via Law of the Sea treaties, and Corporate licensing inside the USA itself.Yet it sent a para military Swat team.
Well, when I was looking up who had authority over what areas and how far out, I came up with the following blurb in one article.
Background: The debate over offshore oil drilling heated up in 2008 when then President George W. Bush lifted a 1990 executive order banning offshore drilling. The ban was ordered by his father, George H.W. Bush. Lifting the ban was mostly symbolic, as there was previous 1981 ban that was still in place, which Congress allowed to expire in September 2008, but left the 1990 executive order in place.
In 2010 a deadly explosion at an oil rig has caused the Obama administration to put the recently announced expansion into offshore drilling for oil and gas on hold. Some politicians and environmental advocates are calling on the president to halt any planned expansions until more safeguards are put into place against future disasters.
The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government authority over most offshore exploration for industrial as well as scientific purposes. A 1960 Supreme Court decision in United States v. Louisiana (et.al.) divided ownership of the tidelands of the United States between the state and federal governments. The states have authority over the sea and seabed out to 3.5 nautical miles (except Texas and Florida which control the seabed out to 10.5 nautical miles). The federal government controls the rest out to 200 nautical miles.
Now, if the Federal Government can have banned offshore drilling from an Executive Order from the first President Bush, and then have the previous President Bush (just before Obama) lift that Executive Order, it would seem that the Federal Government has real effective control over all drilling.
And that article says the control goes 200 miles out.
It would seem to me that since the Federal Government controls all that, and to 200 miles out, and how much in royalties that the oil companies pay -- that there's not going to be very much problem dealing with criminal activity ... :-)
And you don't see a pattern here? Its laughable.You are either the most gullible person on FR, or a closet OBOT.
Sorry, I didn't vote for Obama, but the GOP ticket... and I figure I did a whole heck of a lot better in voting for the GOP ticket than quite a few FReepers I've seen posting here who didn't vote for the GOP, and helped Obama get into office. I would take a look at them, first -- before looking at someone who voted for the GOP ticket ... LOL ...
And as far as BP is concerned, they're sure acting like a criminal organization, by killing so many of their employees, back even during the Bush Administration. And between the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration, BP has had about 760 safety violations, as compared to Exxon with only one (and some others with only a few, just enough to count on the fingers of one hand).
The other oil companies are already pointing the finger at BP saying that they did not follow good procedures and from the looks of their violations, I can see what type of company BP is, and also from them killing so many of their employees during the Bush Administration.
The other oil companies don't like "getting a black eye" from the stuff that BP has been doing for years. It makes the rest of them look real bad and they're "going after" BP now, as I can see in their testimony.
From a referenced article, in this post -- Post #4 ...
It definitely shows "how BP operates" ... :-)
FReepers have been quoting and posting the "Oil Drum" articles repeatedly and quite consistently here on Free Republic. You'll find a whole slug of articles explaining this situation on the Oil Drum ...
How ? Please explain.