BOEMRE = Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (Government). Out of curiosity, did they happen to have stats older than 2009?
BOEMRE is formerly known as The Mineral Management Service, the agency in charge of overseeing offshore oil exploration.
Obama appointed Michael Bromwich, a liberal lawyer, known for going after private businesses, to head up this agency in June of 2010.
This is the same agency to whom BP submitted its drilling plan March 10, 2009. Rather than subject the plan to a detailed environmental review before approving it as required by the National Environmental Policy Act, the agency declared the plan to be “categorically excluded” from environmental analysis because it posed virtually no chance of harming the environment.
Also, these stats look a lot like the Dept of Energy stats and the Steelworker Union stats (big dem supporters) and as I recall many of them were as minor as wastebasket fires.
I said this before - I do not trust anyone in this administration. I would want to see collaboration of any stats with unbiased outside sources before writing this off as “typical”.
What outside source do you think is going to collect statistics on the thousand fires that happened in the last ten years of Gulf of Mexico platforms & rigs?
Oil companies are not required to report them to anyone else.
Yes, they do. I have posted stats from 1996 on up.