beards, they get cold. walruses don t live in the gulf of mexico. what are they doing in all the oil company s gulf of mexico emergency plans? no, really, what are they doing there, ceo of exxon? mr. tillerson, like bp on page 11-6 of your plan, exxon mobile s gulf of mexico oil spill response plan lists walruses under sensitive biological and human resources. as i m sure you know, there aren t any walruses in the gulf of mexico, and there have not been for 3 million years. how can exxon mobile have walruses in their response plan for the gulf of mexico? congressman, those response plans incorporate a number of broad base plans. these are regional oil spill
walruses don t live in all of the gulf of mexico. so what are they doing in the emergency oil plans. really, what are they doing there, ceo of exxon. mr. tillerson, like the p on page six of your plan, gulf of mexico s oil spill response plan lists walruses under sensitive plonbiological and hu resources. as i m sure you know, there aren t any walruses in the gulf of mexico and there have not been for 3 million years. how can exxonmobil have walruses in their response plan for the gulf of mexico? congressman markey, those response plans incorporate a number of broad-based studies, marine mammal studies. these are regional i understand. oil spill response plans. how can walruses be in a response plan for the gulf of
mr. tillerson, like the p on page 11-6 of your plan, gulf of mexico oil spill response plan lists walruses under sensitive biological and human resources. as i m sure you know, there aren t any walruses in the gulf of mexico and there have not been for 3 million years. how can exxonmobil have walruses in their response plan for the gulf of mexico? congressman markey, those response plans incorporate a number of broad-based studies, marine mammal studies. these are regional i understand. oil spill response plans. how can walruses be in a response plan for the gulf of mexico? this is a regional response plan that each of you had to put together.
assurances at least appear to be unwarranted. for one thing, our investigation reveals that the oil spill response plan for the first new permit handed out last month was written the year before the bp oil disaster. it s dated september, 2009. it therefore cannot include any lessons learned from the bp oil disaster. for the record, oil companies are not being required to update their oil spill response plans ahead of receiving new permits to drill. after our report aired last night the interior department contacted us to complain about our coverage. bitterly. they provided a list of what they said were new safety measures that have been implemented in the wake of the deep water horizon disaster. you can see those right now on our blog. maddow blog.msnbc.com. these measures include things like stepped up verifications of inspections and measurements, workplace safety rules for people who work on the rigs, a requirement to have remotely operated vehicles on hand at drill sites you about
disaster. same blowout preventer technology that has been singled out as having failed during the bp oil disaster and that we now know would fail again even if used as directed. no new nothing as a result of the bp oil disaster. and this permit was approved last month. with an oil spill response plan dated seven months before the largest oil spill in u.s. history. with the administration s assurance about all the rigorous new safety standards these companies are going to be following. we contacted the government. we contacted the department of the interior after we obtained this document because we thought somebody must have sent us the wrong thing. we thought we must have been sent by accident an old version of this oil response plan. they informed us that in fact we do have the most up-to-date version on hand. they also told us that in general rig operators are eligible to get new permits while they re in the process of revising any old oil spill response plans. so what exactly is th