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Posted on 01/12/2011 6:09:53 AM PST by bestintxas
If the government does not take drastic steps, another deepwater oil spill like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico could devastate the coastal areas of the United States, an oversight commission warned Tuesday in a long-awaited report to the president.
More research, funding and oversight are needed to help prevent another disaster, concluded the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
"As drilling pushes into ever deeper and riskier waters where more of America's oil lies, only systemic reforms of both government and industry will prevent a similar, future disaster," said William K. Reilly, the commission co-chairman.
Halliburton criticized the report's conclusions, saying the commission selectively omitted information it submitted.
The disaster "was almost the inevitable result of years of industry and government complacency and lack of attention to safety," Reilly said. The disaster led to the worst maritime oil spill in U.S. history.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
These guys are all collegial scientists and politicians, so what would anyone predict anyway but something like this?
Commission members: Bob Graham-political science and lawyer William K. Reilly-Lawyer Frances Beinecke-Forestry and Environmental Studies Donald Boesch-Biological Oceanography Terry Garcia- Lawyer Cherry Murray- Physicist Frances Ulmer - political science and economics
I believe the lack of seeking out people who have practical business experience is one of the chief problems with this administration.
“I believe the lack of seeking out people who have practical business experience is one of the chief problems with this administration.”
REALLY? Do yo think so?
That is at least part of it. I also think that if they continue to get their way you will be relieved if the price of gasoline is ONLY $5.00 a gallon. I also think if we don’t get back to work in the Gulf in a serious way without reams of bureaucratic and outrageous regulations we are going to fall behind in know how and may never catch up.
I think the a bunch of prepubescent children and communists / marxists / fascists / people with a chip on their shoulder / wack jobs are running the show. Until they are gone or reigned in I don’t think the United States stands a chance against the world. That would be jut fine with dumbo.
“More research, funding and oversight are needed to help prevent another disaster,”
Requiring more money from the American Public without any benefits to the Public.
And if the government DOES take drastic steps, another deepwater oil spill could devastate the coastal areas.
We already take "drastic steps" to prevent these kinds of incidents -- the industry is heavily regulated, and offshore drilling has significant government input and inspection.
Yet all of that interference didn't stop the BP oil spill. And more interference won't guarantee prevention of another one.
“Requiring more money from the American Public without any benefits to the Public.”
One might argue that a cleaner, healthier environment IS a benefit to the public. I know I prefer non-polluted beaches and oceans.
I beg to differ, More interference could very well prevent another event by default... drilling may just stop in the OCS.
It doesn’t take much skimming of the report to the president from the Horizon Commission, especially the recommendations that are a separate document, to be further persuaded that BP has created our Three Mile Island. In the late 70s NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and just about any environmental protection group got enough power to stop any plant they didn’t want and that has proven to be just about all of them up until now. There Mile Island in 1979 put the icing on the cake. There has been a nearly 30 year dry spell for the nuclear industry since.
The recommendations to the president are so broad that we will be mired in endless studies to do just about anything. We will also be reporting to decision makers in the government that don’t want to do anything and they don’t want us to do anything either. Analysis paralysis will make the time line to get anything done so long and costly that we will not.
To say the report is highly prejudiced is a massive understatement, to think it would have been anything less than highly prejudiced would be outright stupidity, not naive, stupid. The report and the committee are not stupid though. They are bold, duplicitous and crafty and have created a set of recommendations to shut down offshore drilling while appearing to all but the informed that it is for the greater good. It has taken them months to prepare 300 pages of justification for the conclusion they had drawn before they even convened.
Unless more powerful forces than the ones that are in control do something I do not believe that the confused and confusing efforts by BOEMRE so far hold a candle to what is to come on the heels of this report.
http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/final-report
Anybody remember the “Mega Borg”, anybody?
“Yet all of that interference didn’t stop the BP oil spill.”
That could be construed as an argument for MORE regulation and oversight.
“And more interference won’t guarantee prevention of another one.”
Actually, there is a way to guarantee prevention of similar incidents.
“I know I prefer non-polluted beaches and oceans.”
The number of spills of this magnitude in the Gulf are few and far between. Mother Nature has done a good job of cleaning this one up so far. The seafood industry is OK except for a few looking for handouts.
The problems in the Gulf have been BP, not Shell, etc. so let’s make them all, including us, suffer. This is like gun control for the shooting of the Congresswoman.
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