Where was Rahm when Obama was golfing, fundraising, golfing, fundraising, doing the concert scene, rinse/repeat.
MMS utterly failed to regulate the safety of BP’s deep-water drilling operations. Where are those who signed off on this rig up until Feb…Mar…April…May???
They had plenty of forewarning to have skimmers, boom material, manpower, an action plan, etc standing by. Why weren’t BP and MMS prepared for the worst case scenario?
Also, Goldman Sachs and BP CEO Tony Hayward sold a bunch of BP stock during the 1st Quarter, seemingly, “unaware” of the then thought impending disaster. This indicates otherwise.
Yes, this makes it much more understandable why Hayward dumped such a large amount of BP shares of stock.
The “official release” will contradict. Save this page. Watch it ‘evolve’.
Does anyone know how to remove this from Breaking news? I didn’t mean to post it under breaking!!!
"BP didn’t exactly keep it a secret, either. They informed MMS of the problem, which apparently did nothing to intervene in a situation serious enough that a similar situation caused Exxon to shut down its well in 2006."
Because they were getting out of the OIL DRILLING business, and into the new and very profitable GREEN ENERGY business.
The guy who headed the MMS for 12 years had quit/was let go so Obama could put in one of his 'insiders' who would waive the rules for BP so they could finish the drill, and turn it over to oil producer. It was costing them big bucks every day in penalties because they were behind schedule.
Obama in his 'insiders' had been working with BP on crafting the new CAP AND TRADE legislation, and they wanted BP off the well before the bill went in for a vote.
Mother Nature had other ideas, however.
Thanks.
HP
So MMSknew there were big problems and allowed them to continue? To me this places the blame more on what the federal government did not do to keep this from happening.
I think this is a cover story and a distraction to avoid a real investigation; get the public to accept a baseline story and everyone one can move away from a thorough forensic investigation to begin with. Second, this does not explain why this regime has stalled, interfered and deliberately avoided what is needed to minimize impact of drifting oil slicks, which they have had the opportunity to prepare against. Unless the goal has been to displace a large section of populace and economy making the area so depressed which benefits “friends of government.”
I suspect Tony might be heading to jail.
The oil Industry does not need additional regulation as you advocate, but rather the industry players need to follow standard procedures.
Keep Your Government Out of My Industry
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In addition to the sub surface blowout preventers there is a "diverter" system at the surface to keep gas from getting to the rig floor. The diverter is a low pressure closure of the riser so diverter lines can direct gas over the sides of the rig.
Human error, lack of attention, deliberate delays all could contribute to this problem. Failure of so many equipment items in early stages seems unlikely. After the rig explosion and sinking I wouldn't be surprised if conditions changed to the extent that nothing subsea performed as intended.
This would explain the suspicious BP stock action by certain parties (such as Goldman Sucks and CEO Hayward) PRIOR to the blow out. They knew it would blow.
I would suggest that if this information is true, the reasons for why worse case scenereo plans were not in place was so this administration could use the expected blow out for political advantage.
This is an excerpt from an email supposedly sent to ATS from a BP employee that’s interesting:
“All of us concerned BPers (yes, there are many) are talking that something or someone was at the bop and either deliberately caused the blowout or made a grave error that caused the bop to malfunction when the inevitable blowout happened.
Everyone here is talking about it but no one dare say anything to anyone even their families.
There’s also something happening about 100 miles southeast of the rig site with several navy and uscg ships. And Friday two serious looking guys arrive and started directing our sup. Apparently they showed Navy Intelligence ID when they arrived along with a dozen commando looking guys.”
The whole email is here:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread583367/pg1
They can’t verify its source so they can’t call it real or fake.