This really angers me... - BP oil info

my2monkeyboys wrote: http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+cat...3808/story.html

Now I don't know if this site is trustworthy, as from what I can tell it's Canadian, so I have no experience with it. But from what I've read all of this info is factual.
It just makes me so mad that our govt. has been so ignorant! It makes you wonder if there was some ulterior motive to letting this continue!

Our Lil' Family replied: WOW!
It would not surprise me one bit! I hate the attitude that we don't need help from other countries, until we'll need to borrow more money because we're in such a deficit!

MommyToAshley replied:

I am sure it has to do with greed more than pride or anything else.

jcc64 replied: I'm sure it had something to do with Halliburton and/or Dick Cheney.

coasterqueen replied:
Really?

Our Lil' Family replied:
How would he still have power over the situation? And I've never once heard mention of Halliburton in all of this mess.

luvbug00 replied: IMHO this whole issue is just screwed up on all kinds of levels, pointing fingers does nothing. Just a place to send blame instead of BP taking care of this mess.
If we are in fact so prideful that we will not allow foreign help then what does that say about this country as a whole? does it say "We're good enough to help you but your not good enough to help us?" In this point in time It would be stupid to turn away help.

A&A'smommy replied: I'm FURIOUS right now.... a place i LOVE and have grown up visiting is experiencing so much ugly right now, their tourist numbers are WAY down, the beachs are gross, even when the water looks clean you can still feel the oil on your skin and see it, so many sea animals have died, coral, sea turtles, dolpins, and SOOOO much more... how could they allow this??? there are SOOO many people who are loosing their livelyhoods, and yes we are still able to eat a lot of the seafood. But did you know they still don't have a test to check our seafoods for dangerous levels of dispersants!!!!!

moped replied:
Financial Post is a very accurate and trustworthy paper........

my2monkeyboys replied: I am not blaming anyone but the final person who said, no, we don't want/need your help. I am not sure if that is the president or some committee chairperson or who, but the fact that who ever it is would be allowed to turn down help when our country, and even the world, will be so negatively effected by allowing the oil to leak for even one day, much less months, they should be strung up and run out of town, so to speak.
I think BP should have to pay the bill on our resources being used to clean up their mess, but for Pete's sake it should have dealt with LONG ago, regardless of whether it was the oil company or the government doing it. I just can not see ANY reason why every resource wasn't utilized to stop this as soon as absolutely possible... it's just an absolute disgrace.

A&A'smommy replied:
Forgot to mention that even if you do choose to swim in the ocean (when it looks clean) you better watch for sharks because they are swimming a LOT closer to the shore than usual. The day before we left we saw them in water that was up to my thighs, and probably about 3 - 4 feet from the edge of the water. SCARY!!

jcc64 replied:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/62899,busine...rizon-oil-spill

http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10004219/g...all-implicated/

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/11/gu...senate-hearing/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...3564769072.html

Of particular interest to me in the above article:
"Halliburton also was the cementer on a well that suffered a big blowout last August in the Timor Sea, off Australia. The rig there caught fire and a well leaked tens of thousands of barrels of oil over 10 weeks before it was shut down. The investigation is continuing; Halliburton declined to comment on it.

Elmer P. Danenberger, who had recently retired as head of regulatory affairs for the U.S. Minerals Management Service, told the Australian commission looking into the blowout that a poor cement job was probably the reason oil and natural gas gushed out of control."

my2monkeyboys replied: So those reports are saying that Haliburton did a shoddy job of cementing; other reports are saying the Obama admin. didn't do their inspections right...
No matter what caused the problem, I don't see how anyone could let it continuously pour oil into our oceans, killing the sea life, destroying people's way of life, etc and not be punished for it... I don't care who's at fault, be it this administration or the one in office 2 years ago... someone needs a foot up their a$$.

After everything is taken care of, then go back and figure out what caused it and deal with that then. Now is not the time for that.

jcc64 replied:

I disagree--I think now is definitely the time to figure it out, b/c now is when people are paying attention and angry enough to demand action from elected officials so the conditions that created this situation can be ameliorated.
I am not, btw, giving the Obama Administration a free pass on this. Though I don't think they caused it, they did nothing to prevent the possibility of a catastrophe by continuing to allow the corruption and incompetence of oversight departments that began before they took office. I read this in the New Yorker, usually a very left leaning, though journalistically responsible publication:
"The President does, in fact, share in blame. Obama inherited an Interior Department that he knew to be plagued by corruption, but he allowed the department's disreputable Minerals Management Service to party on. Last spring, in keeping with its usual custom, the MMS granted BP all sorts of exemptions from environmental regulations. Ironically, one of those exemptions allowed the company to drill the Deepwater Horizon well without adhering to the standards set by NEPA."

At the very least, I think we all need to accept responsibility for allowing our environment to be destroyed by irresponsible, soulless politicians while greedy oil companies continue to boost record profits. This is what you get when you "Drill,baby, drill" before taking proper precautions. I would love for someone to do a split screen of Rudy Giuliani's infamous rally cry next to photos of the devastation down in the Gulf.
It's all of our faults, b/c we allow politicians and media blowhards to portray environmental activists (the people actively trying to prevent these sorts of disasters) as clueless hippie freaks. We don't demand responsible environmental policy, it's not a national priority, quite the opposite, actually, and so now we have this. We are all to blame.