Bobbyrx
06-18-2010, 02:48 PM
and the other oil companies and the Feds try to cover their own a--.
"Feds refuse to provide spill response plans for top oil companies drilling in Gulf
Published: Friday, June 18, 2010, 5:50 AM
Ben Raines, Press-Register
MOBILE, Ala. -- A month ago, as BP struggled to contain an oil spill that it estimated at 200,000 gallons a day, the Press-Register reported that the company's federal permit documents stated that it could handle a spill of 12.6 million gallons a day.
BP's documents also said that it could skim 17 million gallons of oil a day; thus far it has skimmed just 2 million gallons in seven weeks.
The documents -- BP's Regional Oil Spill Response Plan -- are riddled with inaccurate claims and errors, including an online address for an equipment supplier that instead links to an unrelated Japanese website.
In May, the newspaper asked the Department of Interior and the U.S. Minerals Management Service for the response plans of the five major companies drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, arguing that the public had an immediate need to know whether permits for other deepwater wells had been granted based on similarly flawed claims.
Neither federal agency would supply the plans without a Freedom of Information Act request, which the newspaper then filed.
" link (http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/feds_refuse_to_provide_spill_r.html)
"Feds refuse to provide spill response plans for top oil companies drilling in Gulf
Published: Friday, June 18, 2010, 5:50 AM
Ben Raines, Press-Register
MOBILE, Ala. -- A month ago, as BP struggled to contain an oil spill that it estimated at 200,000 gallons a day, the Press-Register reported that the company's federal permit documents stated that it could handle a spill of 12.6 million gallons a day.
BP's documents also said that it could skim 17 million gallons of oil a day; thus far it has skimmed just 2 million gallons in seven weeks.
The documents -- BP's Regional Oil Spill Response Plan -- are riddled with inaccurate claims and errors, including an online address for an equipment supplier that instead links to an unrelated Japanese website.
In May, the newspaper asked the Department of Interior and the U.S. Minerals Management Service for the response plans of the five major companies drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, arguing that the public had an immediate need to know whether permits for other deepwater wells had been granted based on similarly flawed claims.
Neither federal agency would supply the plans without a Freedom of Information Act request, which the newspaper then filed.
" link (http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/feds_refuse_to_provide_spill_r.html)