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Feds refuse to provide spill response plans for top oil companies drilling in Gulf
al.com ^ | 6/18/10 | Ben Raines

Posted on 06/18/2010 4:25:27 PM PDT by Nachum

MOBILE, Ala. -- A month ago, as BP struggled to contain an oil spill that it estimated at 200,000 gallons a day, the Press-Register reported that the company's federal permit documents stated that it could handle a spill of 12.6 million gallons a day.

BP's documents also said that it could skim 17 million gallons of oil a day; thus far it has skimmed just 2 million gallons in seven weeks.

The documents -- BP's Regional Oil Spill Response Plan -- are riddled with inaccurate claims and errors, including an online address for an equipment supplier that instead links to an unrelated Japanese website.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feds; refuse; response; spill
The most ethical administration in ...

oh nevermind.

1 posted on 06/18/2010 4:25:28 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum
The most ethical administration in ...

Many to choose from.

The system is broken...previous administration....ect.

2 posted on 06/18/2010 4:30:29 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


3 posted on 06/18/2010 4:32:37 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Reminds me of the ridiculous requirements we had when I worked making electronics equipment for the gov, i.e., to detect 99% of all errors via self-test. Our reliability guys would wave their hands around and their reliability guys would wave their hands around and all would pretend that this really could be done.
4 posted on 06/18/2010 5:15:02 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Nachum

As is they had one.


5 posted on 06/18/2010 5:22:23 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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To: Nachum

“BP’s documents also said that it could skim 17 million gallons of oil a day; thus far it has skimmed just 2 million gallons in seven weeks.”

Don’t forget about all those Gulf Coast otters that BP was going to save.


6 posted on 06/18/2010 5:39:00 PM PDT by trumandogz
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