I would agree except that this was a case where the company in question was being deliberately deceptive about the scale of the accident, hoping that the spill would be diluted and the well capped before the true scale became common knowledge.
No one can argue with the fact that Obama & Co were WAY too easy on BP during the catastrophic oil spill on 2010.
Is the solution to this problem to hand the keys back to the GOP? Does anyone think that the GOP would have been or is going to be a tougher overseer/regulator of the energy industry than the current Administration?
ANYONE? Anyone?, anyone?, Bueller?
Oh, ME ME ME! I totally think that the GOP is a better government watchdog!
At this point they are coming right out and saying that they want to "Take Back America".
I think they want to take America 'back' from the quasi-corporatist Obama Administration and return it to the kind of 100% full time corporatism that only the GOP/Tea Party/Corporate Lobbyist supported Party can offer.
Hey dudes, the govt did a crappy job of the spill .. quit being such an ostrich and blaming the other guy. There are reports that the administration hid the truth and would not let all the information get out to the public.. I suppose that's BP's fault ..or GW's .. or Glenn Beck .. or Rush Limbaugh.
You mean blaming BP for being irresponsible?
Sh** happens in this world, it's how people deal with that sh** that counts. Obama and his administration did not deal with it very well .. now you should deal with that instead of saying it's BP's, GW's, or the Tea party's fault.
Katrina was a government responsibility. The gulf spill was a corporate one. How EXACTLY is it not BP's responsibility?
The aftermath .. how was the aftermath handled. No one could have forseen a CAT5 hurricane like Katrina .. well actually NO has been wiped out every twenty years .. but Cat 5 hurricanes are pretty rare. Do you think the govt was responsible for Katrina .. phhpt!
No one could have really predicted that there would be this HUGE oil spill ... perhaps both could have been prepared for better - but my point is that bad things DO happen, no matter you're ready for, and the administration did a poor job after the oil spill .. it's not even my opinion - it's this reports opinion too. Was it BP's fault - sure it wouldn't have happened if BP didn't do this or that, or people didn't use so much oil, that we had more electir cars .. but that is not the point.
If someone comes to ER really messed up from a car accident, I trust for most things the ER is prepared for that .. is it prepared to handle all the possible problems .. probably not .. would it be OK if the ER doctors just ignored the problem hoping it would go away .. or didn't call send them to the trauma unit or a specialized doctor. What if the ER did nothing and they could have to save their life? If the patient was lost .. would there be an investigation' Would the doctors blame the death of the individual on the the other driver, even though they could have done something but didn't for what ever reason. I'm sure legal responsibility would be blamed on the other driver, unless of course there was neglect on the ER personnel .. Would the ER try to hide the truth from the investigators?
The govt could not have gotten all the people out of the NO area .. even if they had known Katrina would have turned out to be a CAT 5 hurricane - you just can't get all those people out, because they don't want to go .. many people are stubborn like that. I've been through several hurricanes, and there is a mentality that you can survive no matter what - is that he govts fault? .. The tried - the local govt bungled a lot of the effort to get people out of the area - is that the feds fault?.
WIth the oil spill - there were reports that were falsified by govt agencies concerning the health and saftey of the rig .. is that BP's fault?
Mistakes were made - it's how you take care of things after you get knocked to the ground
As part of a leaseholder's responsibility those preparations are supposed to be in place.
So why wasn't the govt ready to handle the problem as well? Why didn't they shut the rig down? The feds failed in their responsibilities.
Panel: Gov't thwarted worst-case scenario on spill
Big_T
Time for some change