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Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 9:47 am
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Though much attention has been paid to yesterday’s national oil spill commission meeting in Washington (I wrote about it here), there’s another oil spill meeting taking place in Houston, Tx., that is just as important.
The Interior Department and the Coast Guard are holding hearings this week on the cause of the BP oil spill. But they aren’t getting many answers. All week long, the three companies responsible for the spill: BP (well owner), Transocean (rig owner) and Halliburton (cement contractor) engaged in a round robin of finger pointing. There was so much ducking of responsibility that a chairman of the oil spill hearings said he did not yet know who was in charge of the rig prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion, The New York Times reports:
This week, BP has been pushing back against the perception that it is primarily responsible for the spill. On Wednesday, the company issued a statement saying that Halliburton should have stopped work on cementing the well if its workers held genuine safety concerns. To not do so, BP said, would be “morally repugnant.”
Halliburton replied with a statement that said BP had ignored its warnings and persisted with a risky plan to use fewer devices called centralizers when cementing the well. “Ultimately, Halliburton acted on the decisions of and at the explicit direction of the well owner,” the statement said.
The dispute follows testimony Tuesday about a report from Halliburton to BP two days before the explosion that said the cement could result in a “severe gas flow” problem.
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Comment posted August 27, 2010 @ 4:11 am
In discussing the BP oil spill on our blog, someone commented that “responsibility” requires that a corporation tell the truth. Out of curiosity, should a corporation tell the truth when it would help plaintiffs in lawsuits against the corporation recover more damages which would adversely affect the corporation’s bottom line, or is this an instance where lying is justified?
Comment posted August 27, 2010 @ 12:19 pm
The Center for Public Integrity reported on its website Tuesday that the Coast Guard's failure to follow its own firefighting policy during the Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire may have contributed to the sinking of the oil rig.
US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry was in charge of the gulf when the rig went down last April ! Lets get some answers from Congress !
How odd was it that Mary Landry was also in charge of the April 2003 oil spill in Buzzards Bay. On April 27, 2003, Bouchard Barge 120 hit an obstacle in Buzzards Bay, creating a 12-foot rupture in its hull and discharging an estimated 98,000 gallons of No. 6 oil. The oil is known to have affected an estimated 90 miles of shoreline
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