One simply hopes that the President, AG or some Congressperson will jump in asap and shut down that Atlantic platform now…if that’s possible to do. What a scary report. How would you like to work on that platform given this report? I’d get off that job in an instant. A life is better than a paycheck. Just ask the families of those 11 workers who died in the explosion. In the meantime I will boycott BP and ARCO gas stations. Not sure what else one can do??

When this segment aired in the Twin Cities last week, right when they were getting
to the part about Cheney and Haliburton’s involvement with BP and Trans Ocean,
the screen suddenly went black: “Signal Lost”

Indeed…

My letter to President Obama today:

Dear Mr. President:

Congratulations on your belated decision on Monday to empanel an independent commission to investigate the British Petroleum/Federal Government oil gusher on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.  This announcement of yours on Monday, however, apparently was prompted by the very telling 60 Minutes piece on this mega-disaster this past Sunday evening.  Thanks to your Departments of Interior and Commerce, this devastating gusher on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico belongs to you.

  Three other points of contention:

1.  You have failed to intercede in British Petroleum’s stonewalling of scientists who can and should be accurately measuring the outflow from that gusher on the floor of the Gulf.  I find it extremely puzzling that you, as President of the United States, would not want to know just how many thousands of barrels of oil are being deposited in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

2.  Further I find it extremely puzzling that you have not ordered British Petroleum to immediately begin the “top kill” procedure to seal the gushing well.  What I do not find puzzling is why British Petroleum did not initiate the “top kill” procedure three weeks ago, simply because they are doing everything possible to salvage their deep-water production well—and the Gulf of Mexico be damned!  Executing the “top kill” procedure would condemn the well from ever producing oil.  Instead, British Petroleum, with your apparent approval, has chosen to insert a four-inch-diameter pipe into the 21-inch-diameter pipe gushing an estimated 70,000 barrels a day into the Gulf.

3.  You should have learned about that “cozy relationship” between the federal government and the petro-chemical industry at least a year ago.  The primary reason for sending your “transition teams” into government departments and agencies last December was to find out what was wrong and what needed “fixing.”  So much for your “transition teams” who were sent into the Departments of Interior and Commerce!

Sincerely,
James F. Michie

Wasn’t there another BP drilling accident in the deep waters surrounding Austrailia in 2005?  I thought that was what I read just after the Horizon Deepwater explosion and sinking?  It is absolutely astounding that the Obama adminstration continued the obscene practices of the Bush(Cheney) administration in catering to the military industrial complex.  I don’t care how much Obama can bring people “together”.  If he can’t perfprm his job as a true public servant; then all his campaign “promises” are worthless. Evidently, we all got scammed.

That’s VERY bad. I worked as a Civil Draftsman for 7
years working on engineering drawings and there’s NO
WAY you so much as screw a bolt into place unless
authorized engineers have signed and given the drawings
their approval, that’s VERY VERY dodgy.