Obama “Let the World’s Most Dangerous Oil Company Get Away with Murder”
Obama “Let the World’s Most Dangerous Oil Company Get Away with Murder”
Via: Rolling Stone:
On May 27th, more than a month into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Barack Obama strode to the podium in the East Room of the White House. For weeks, the administration had been insisting that BP alone was to blame for the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf – and the ongoing failure to stop the massive leak. “They have the technical expertise to plug the hole,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs had said only six days earlier. “It is their responsibility.” The president, Gibbs added, lacked the authority to play anything more than a supervisory role – a curious line of argument from an administration that has reserved the right to assassinate American citizens abroad and has nationalized much of the auto industry. “If BP is not accomplishing the task, can you just federalize it?” a reporter asked. “No,” Gibbs replied.
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Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig – one of the world’s largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components – a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to “catastrophic” errors. In a May 19th letter to Salazar, 26 congressmen called for the rig to be shut down immediately. “We are very concerned,” they wrote, “that the tragedy at Deepwater Horizon could foreshadow an accident at BP Atlantis.”
Tim Dickinson blogs about all the news that fits, from the Beltway and beyond on the National Affairs blog.
The administration’s response to the looming threat? According to an e-mail to a congressional aide from a staff member at MMS, the agency has had “zero contact” with Atlantis about its safety risks since the Deepwater rig went down.
There have been more than several attempts to cap this oil flow to save the oil, well one that I seen that would have worked, (had they cut a hole in the top of the box with a hatch lid and closed it once a seal had been accomplished on the sea bed, but that was not even an option, I think it is in the best interests of someone in the hidden rulers, ( for example: Illuminatti “maybe not them but someone like them) to keep this spill going, and the reason will come out later, then covered up immediately, just keep your ears open for the slip, the profiteers will show themselves. . . . .
There are skimmers all over the world ready to work from day ONE and OBAMA and his traiterous cabal in the WHITEHOUSE wouldn’t let them in.
Other countries offered to extract the oil from the ocean water, then put the water back in the ocean. A system which has been used for years, but that lying sack of squeeze OBAMA again would not let them in………..WHO DO YOU THINK WILL PROFIT FROM THIS MESS?? CAP AND TRADE!!! Sooner or later the AMERIKAN COMMRADES WILL WAKE UP AND COME FOR THEIR POUND OF FLESH.