drilling as safe as possible, prevent another deepwater horizon from happening. there s three main points in this legislation we want to highlight here. it would prohibit deep water high-risk wells unless they are shown to have, an effective blowout preventer. two, an oil spill response plan, and a plan to complete a relief well in some 90 days. that is a kill well. some people might look at that saying, wow, that s pretty logical to have in place there. why hasn t that been in place up until now? i think that the need for this legislation underscores the fact that if oil and gas, particularly in the high-risk areas, such as the deep waters of the gulf of mexico, are going to continue to be part of our energy mix, then we re going to have to do things very differently because our economy, not to mention our environment, simply cannot stand the kind of daily insults and degradation it s suffering as a result of this terrible blowout in the
the mythical caribbean walrus, already one of the most powerful symbols of failure to emerge from the bp oil disaster, just became an even more powerful symbol. for those of you keeping rack at home, the mythical caribbean walrus came into bp when he was discovered on bp s regional oil spill response plan for the gulf of mexico. this response plan, the one specific to the gulf of mexico, included walrus in a list of animals that might be affected by a spill, in the gulf of mexico. walruses, of course, only live in super cold places and don t actually exist in the gulf of mexico. apparently the folks at the bp have copy and pasted their oil spill response plan for the gulf of mexico from a response plan they d already written for somewhere else, somewhere cold. besides being really embarrassing for bp, that fact also gave us all a clue as to why the company s gulf of mexico actual response, not planned, but real response, has been so
the mythical caribbean walrus, already one of the most powerful symbols of failure to emerge from the bp oil disaster, just became an even more powerful symbol. for those of you keeping rack at home, the mythical caribbean walrus came into bp when he was discovered on bp s regional oil spill response plan for the gulf of mexico. this response plan, the one specific to the gulf of mexico, included walrus in a list of animals that might be affected by a spill, in the gulf of mexico. walruses, of course, only live in super cold places and don t actually exist in the gulf of mexico. apparently the folks at the bp have copy and pasted their oil spill response plan for the gulf of mexico from a response plan they d already written for somewhere else, somewhere cold. besides being really embarrassing for bp, that fact also gave us all a clue as to why the company s gulf of mexico actual response, not planned,
tom costello got a one on one interview with the chief operating officer of bp on board a bp helicopter. tom asked a bunch of what i have been dying to ask bp. among his great pointy questions was one about the myth cal caribbean walrus and its role in bp s oil spill response plan. to refresh your memory, the response plan by bp, the one specific to the gulf of mexico listed walruses that live in cold water among the species of wildlife you d have on worry about in the event of an oil spill in the gulf of mexico. that gave away the fact that the company obviously had not bothered to make a gulf of mexico-specific spill response plan. they just cut and pasted whatever they did from some place cold, some place with walruses and then called it the gulf of mexico oil response plan. my new hero, tom costello, asked
thomas costello from nbc got a one-on-one interview with the chief operating officer of bp on board a bp helicopter. tom asked a bunch of what i have been dying to ask bp. among his great pointy questions was one about the mythical caribbean walrus and its role in bp s oil spill response plan. to refresh your memory, the response plan by bp, the one specific to the gulf of mexico lists walruses who only live in very, very cold waterer among the species you d have to worry about in the event of an oil spill. in the gulf of mexico. and that gave away the fact that the company had obviously not even bothered to make a gulf of mexico-specific spill response plan. they just cut and pasted whatever they had done from someplace cold, someplace with walruses and then called it the