place. do you assume obviously your experience would be primarily in alaska. do you assume this is the case in the gulf and what we re looking at with this thing, that bp is continually spilling two to three, 400,000 gallons of oil into the gulf right now each day? do you think something like that happened there, based on your experience? yes, i do. i think it s a culture that is within bp, and other drilling contractors. yes, i do. is there any way out of the corruption in this system, in your opinion? no, until we have stronger regulations and stronger commissions and more honest politicians, i don t see that bp s going to change their way. sounds like a state regulator at every one of those tests might be of some use, or a federal one. mike mason, whistleblower on the practices of the oil industry. great thanks for your courage in speaking up on this stuff. you re welcome. thank you, keith. we should note we asked bp for comment on mr. mason s story. we received no r
place. do you assume obviously your experience would be primarily in alaska. do you assume this is the case in the gulf and what we re looking at with this thing, that bp is continually spilling two to three, 400,000 gallons of oil into the gulf right now each day? do you think something like that happened there, based on your experience? yes, i do. i think it s a culture that is within bp, and other drilling contractors. yes, i do. is there any way out of the corruption in this system, in your opinion? no, until we have stronger regulations and stronger commissions and more honest politicians, i don t see that bp s going to change their way. sounds like a state regulator at every one of those tests might be of some use, or a federal one. mike mason, whistleblower on the oil industry, great thanks for your courage in speaking up on this stuff. you re welcome. thank you, keith. we should note we asked bp for comment on mr. mason s story. we received no reply.
and pretty much let the oil fields write the procedures in the first place. do you assume obviously your experience would be in alaska do you assume this is the case in the gulf and what we re looking at with this thing, that bp is continually spilling 200,000, 300,000, 400,000 in the gulf each day? do you think something like that happened there based on your experience? yes, i do. i think it s a culture within bp and other drilling contractors. is there any way out of the corruption in this system in your opinion? no. until we have a stronger regulations and stronger commissions and more honest politicians i don t see that bp is going to change their ways. it sounds like a state regulator and every one of those tests might be of some use or a federal one. mike mason, whistleblower on practices of the oil industry. thanks for your courage and speaking up on this stuff. you re welcome. thank you, keith. we should note we asked bp
degree that s of any value, why didn t this stack cap exist on april 19th, sitting on a dock or in a rig somewhere, you know, just in case? well, that s where i ve just worn a flat spot in the middle of my forehead from banging my head on the desk, because this is one of the first things they talked about on the first week of the blowout. of doing a cap. all these components in this stack are all standard cameron components that could be built very quickly. i don t understand why it took 2 1/2 months to set this, and that s what s really concerned me about what bp s ultimate motivation has been here. and that s a is that a transocean device? somebody set what purports to be a screen cap that shows a transocean logo on the side of the thing? in other words, is this stuff that was sitting somewhere? it could very well be. typically, transocean and other large drilling contractors keep spares sitting around. and so there s not a dearth of