already happened. that to me doesn t feel like a great advance that would justify the type of rash issuing of permit that is you have just done over the last 33 days. these haven t been the rash issuance of permits. as i said, we issued none until the latter part of february. we were strongly criticized for dragging our heels on not issuing any permits for several months after the lifting of theç deepwater drilling moratorium, which actually lifted in october, not in february. and the reason we didn t is because the containment capabilities were not yet ready. you re right, 17 days is not fabulous. but 17 days is a lot better than 87 days, which is what it took to contain mccondo well. wow. 17 days. not fabulous but not being able to stop an underwater oil gusher for two and a half weeks. that was good enough? full steam ahead. today that same regulatory
dragging our heels on not issuing any permits for several months after the lifting of the deepwater drilling moratorium which actually lifted in october, not in february. and the reason we didn t was because the containment capabilities were not yet ready. you re right, 17 days is not fabulous, but 17 days is a lot better than 87 days. which is what it took to contain mccondo well. and from dealing with the containment groups, both the helix group and the other group that s developing containment capabilities, they are going to continue to enhance their capabilities and continue to shorten the response time to potential spills. when you said that changes in the blowout preventers that you changes in what we know about blowout preventers in this recent report were no big deal and didn t really change your thinking in terms of whether or not we should be counting on blowout preventers and what the safety regulations about them should be, that does not square very easily for me with t
issuing any permits for several months after the lifting of the deepwater drilling moratorium which actually lifted in october, not in february. and the reason we didn t was because the containment capabilities were not yet ready. you re right, 17 days is not fabulous, but 17 days is a lot better than 87 days. which is what it took to contain mccondo well. and from dealing with the containment groups, both the helix group and the other group that s developing containment capabilities, they are going to continue to enhance their capabilities and continue to shorten the response time to potential spills. when you said that changes in the blowout preventers that you changes in what we know about blowout preventers in this recent report were no big deal and didn t really change your thinking in terms of whether or not we should be counting on blowout preventers and what the safety regulations about them should be, that does not square very easily for me with the fact that the secretary
well, these haven t been the rash issuance of permits, as i said. we issued none until the latter part of february. we were strongly criticized for dragging our heels on not issuing any permits for several months after the lifting of the deepwater drilling moratorium which actually lifted in october, not in february. and the reason we didn t was because the containment capabilities were not yet ready. you re right, 17 days is not fabulous, but 17 days is a lot better than 87 days. which is what it took to contain mccondo well. and from dealing with the containment groups, both the helix group and the other group that s developing containment capabilities, they are going to continue to enhance their capabilities and continue to shorten the response time to potential spills. when you said that changes in the blowout preventers that you changes in what we know about blowout preventers in this recent report were no big deal and didn t really change your thinking in terms of whether o
and a definitive investigation into the worst oil spill in u.s. history says the bp spill that killed 11 people not only could have been prevented, it could even happen again. nbc s chief environmental aff r affairs kroent ann thompson first broke this story. what was surprising? i think if anybody was looking, andrea, for one specific event to have caused what happened on the deep water horizon on april 20th of last year didn t get that. what the commission said, it was a series of problems, a series of mistakes and oversights at the mccondo well. most can be trace badding to a single overamping failure, a failure of management. the root causes are systemic