BP oil spill
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- ukit0
Maybe before jumping to conclusions you should look and see what the situation actually was? Sure, the government should have had better regulations in place but the reason they don't is because of the oil companies. The government isn't going to dream up lax regulations just for the fun of it, it happens because their oil company buddies lobby for them.
Perfect example:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB…
As BP PLC defended its handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, documents show it argued against new, stricter safety rules proposed last year by the U.S. agency that oversees offshore drilling.
The British oil giant was one of several companies that wrote to the U.S. Minerals Management Service this past September saying additional regulation of the oil industry was unnecessary. In a letter, BP said the current voluntary system of safety procedures was adequate.
In a letter published on the U.S. government Web site Regulations.gov, Richard Morrison, BP's vice president for Gulf of Mexico production, wrote that while BP "is supportive of companies having a system in place to reduce risk, accidents, injuries and spills, we are not supportive of the extensive, prescriptive regulations as proposed in this rule."
He added: "We believe the industry's current safety and environmental statistics demonstrate that the voluntary programs..have been and continue to be very successful."
Mr. Morrison noted that BP had already adopted policies that complied with the MMS's proposed new rules. But he challenged the need for companies to file regular audits of their safety programs with the agency, saying that would be "an administrative burden."
- I don't care about tax reform. United States had to "OK" drilling that deep on their shores.Iggyboo
- They did, and as politicians they should have had both sides of the story in their ears to make decisions.Iggyboo
- Therefore who's culpable for the mess everyone who was responsible for it being there from the CEO's down.Iggyboo
- What do you mean, tax reform? The point is that behind every lax regulation is an oil company lobbyist.ukit
- I mean, think about it, there's no incentive for the gov not to put adequate safety in place.ukit