"We welcome Judge Feldman’s decision to lift the moratorium on deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
"The administration acted appropriately in its immediate steps to inspect every rig in the Gulf following the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Those inspections were necessary to assure Americans that offshore operations were safe and subject to appropriate oversight.
"In addition, the oil and natural gas industry took immediate steps to review practices and equipment to ensure safety and environmental protection, through the formation of two industry-wide task forces. The task forces provided important insights to the Department of Interior during its earliest examination of Gulf operations.
"Those task forces, and two recently created ones, are actively working to find ways to improve the safety of offshore operations, subsea well control and oil spill response. They should prove invaluable to the independent commission established by the president to investigate the Deepwater Horizon incident. Their work, and the work of the commission, will help ensure that deepwater oil and natural gas exploration and production is the safest and cleanest in the world.
"The moratorium was an initial reaction to concerns about the safety of offshore oil and natural gas operations. However, an extended moratorium would have a tremendous impact on the nation’s energy security – and cause significant harm to the region of the country that was already suffering from the spill – without raising safety or improving industry procedures.
"With this ruling, our industry and its people can get back to work to provide Americans with the energy they need, and do it safely and without harming the environment."
I mean seriously do the expect us here at the Great Orange Satan and elsewhere to swallow this bullshit, the Gulf of Mexico is turning into a cesspool and they expect us to believe in a couple of short months they now have it all under control?
Oh come on pull the other one its got bells on.
Decades spent trying to avoid unnecessary overheads such as safety requirements and risk analysis are all put right in a few short weeks.
OK, I'll believe you.
Now show me the reports for all the rigs in the Gulf.
Just having one judge who owns shares in Transocean on your side hardly makes a rock solid case.
However you will have to pardon me since I have become skeptical of the oil industry being capable of doing anything safely and cleanly ever again.
So I would say the ball is in your court
Prove me wrong, and that starts by having every single one of the 700 or so rigs in the gulf inspected from flare to well head, and a full report on each presented. I really could care less how many MMS reports and certificates and commendations you have in your drawers. I think we have seen just how useless the oversight has been.
As for new drilling, cant you wait at least until the catastrophic results of this one have been analyzed?
Oh and don't scream to me about jobs if we continue to poison our biosphere at this rate that point will become mute moot.
Oh and whilst we are on the subject its not just BP
How about the Niger Delta?
Every Oil Company is suspect.
The onus is on them to prove their competence.
Your past record is totally uninspiring, so where are your plans to rectify this in the future?
Until then just forget it.
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remember to keep the mothership afloat