BP was given a waiver to not do this by the Obama administration just days before the accident.Quote:
Originally Posted by rah
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BP was given a waiver to not do this by the Obama administration just days before the accident.Quote:
Originally Posted by rah
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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
As our friend Valve would say:
Link please!!!!
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BP was lobbying to extend an exemption from doing an environmental impact study 11 days before the accident happened:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...050404118.html
No mention of a cutoff valve in the story.
The decision by the department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP’s lease at Deepwater Horizon a “categorical exclusion” from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 — and BP’s lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions — show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf. …Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
The MMS mandates that companies drilling in some areas identify under NEPA what could reduce a project’s environmental impact. But Interior Department spokesman Matt Lee-Ashley said the service grants between 250 and 400 waivers a year for Gulf of Mexico projects. He added that Interior has now established the “first ever” board to examine safety procedures for offshore drilling. It will report back within 30 days on BP’s oil spill and will conduct “a broader review of safety issues,” Lee-Ashley said.
BP’s exploration plan for Lease 206, which calls the prospect of an oil spill “unlikely,” stated that “no mitigation measures other than those required by regulation and BP policy will be employed to avoid, diminish or eliminate potential impacts on environmental resources.”
While the plan included a 13-page environmental impact analysis, it minimized the prospect of any serious damage associated with a spill, saying there would be only “sub-lethal” effects on fish and marine mammals, and “birds could become oiled. However it is unlikely that an accidental oil spill would occur from the proposed activities.”
Kierán Suckling, executive director of the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity, said the federal waiver “put BP entirely in control” of the way it conducted its drilling.
Ok people let us not loose our grip with reality.
This is the first major blowout in US waters since the 1960's
This is the first major blowout at a well this deep.
The environment at 5000 feet is as harsh as it comes. What would work at 150 feet won't work at that depth. The pressure would crush almost anything that isn't specifically built to handle it. Even the guys at NASA haven't come up with any solution.
BP is doing everything it can to stop the leak. It is in their own best interest to do so. To imply anything else is illogical.
The fact a burn-off was not employed immediately, that would greatly have reduced the amount of oil in the water, makes any excuses given, either a damn lie or shows those involved are morons.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
Within days after the leak, some "experts" interviewed on the air were wondering why a burn-off was not taking place.
Thanks Bob.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
So this says that BP was 'allowed" to be in control - not that it was being told by the government to not to do the correct thing.
. . . and like Dave says; "What do I know?"
and anthony's previous post does make the point clear that it's in everyones interest to stop the leak.
And yes, a serious investigation - criminal if needed so - should be taking place. This should never happen again.
You are right and you can say it is illogical they are doing everything THEY can or they KNOW how to do. All I know is a week after the accident, I was wondering where the chorus of media "experts" were not getting on Obama for this mess. He didn't create it, but Bush didn't create Katrina but he took a huge beating for "not caring enough". Personally, I think BP has all but blown their chance to save themselves. They don't have a clue and if they are actively not seeking the help and assistance of other experts from the rest of the oil producers, they should. When it comes to BP, you are quite right Tony to say it is illogical they are not doing everything they can, but I think they are actually doing everything they can as long as they are in control. I am shocked there isn't more being done by the US Army Corp of Engineers and US Navy's submersabiles.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
I am also shocked at the amount of red tape and stupidity that has been employed to get in the way of putting up the berms or burning off the oil. On this score, I blame the administration, and I blame them for this stupidity of stopping all off shore oil drilling. This would be like saying you cant build a building out of wood because one burned down. The consequences are high, but as you say, after 50 years plus of drilling this is the first incident, and it is likely clear BP was not a good corporate citizen in how they operated their platforms.
Where is the freaking vacuum. This is such a simple and effective solution EKI could do it!! WOW this is water > this is oil > drain the filter in the oil tank> WHOALA send it to the refinery.
Bob,Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
They did try to burn it off.....it didn't work. Afterward when they wanted to try again the Feds said no.