"Jordan Barab, deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, said it was clear that BP "didn't go nearly far enough" to correct deficiencies after the 2005 blast.Quote from: BP Cited for Worst OSHA Safety Violations Among U.S. Refiners via CommonDreams.org ,May 17, 2010
"The only thing you can conclude is that BP has a serious, systemic safety problem in their company," Barab said."
UPDATE: BP keeps repeating its mantra of 5,000 barrels of oil and gas leaking out per day at the Deepwater Horizon site while independent experts put the leak at 80,000 barrels a day. BP is more interested in its Public Relations situation than in telling the truth about how massive the spill really is and for reasons of accountability and liability they want to create the impression that the leak is not that bad. They and the Coast Guard are now preventing journalist or anyone else to film dirty beaches or the Deepwater site.
A Facebook account has been set up to protest the way BP is handling the situation and its deliberate attempts to keep the public misinformed over the Deepwater Horizon disaster
I demand to know how much of BP’s oil is in the Gulf is on Facebook
And BP's ongoing battle to control information being given to the public:
Why BP Won't Measure the Oil Spill by Nicole Allan via The Atlantic May 18 2010
In the latest sci-fi development from the Gulf oil spill, scientists have found enormous oil "plumes" beneath the ocean's surface. With this, and last week's underwater footage of oil and natural gas gushing out of the ruptured well, it's apparent that BP's estimate of the amount of oil entering the Gulf each day is at once laughably and horrifyingly low.
Weeks ago, not long after the spill was first verified, BP, the Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated that the well was leaking 5,000 barrels of oil a day. They based this estimate on analysis of the oil slick at the water's surface. Independent scientists analyzing the slick set the estimate at 25,000 barrels a day, and once BP released the underwater video, they calculated flow rates as high as 80,000 barrels a day.
Scientists have come down hard on BP for refusing to take advantage of methods available to measure the oil. The New York Times reported Thursday that BP was planning to fly scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute to Louisiana to conduct volume measurements. The oceanographers were poised to use underwater ultrasound equipment to measure the flow of oil and gas from the ocean floor when BP canceled the trip.
BP has had a poor and disastrous safety record for years and yet were permitted to operate these unsafe sites whether oil refineries or its off shore oil wells. So this is what comes from the Reagan years to the Bush years of deregulation and unfettered capitalism in which business as usual and increasing profits trumped safety and environmental concerns. Eleven men dead and BP and its backers and shareholders are unrepentant. All they care about is the quarterly statement-Did BP make a profit or not.The Tea Party Express crowd led by Sarah Palin are still repeating their mantra of "Drill, Baby ,Drill". It is also of interest that Tea Partiers , the GOP and neocons and other uberconservatives claim this disaster has nothing to do with them or as Brit Hume and others claim that environmentalists and Obama's supporters whom they characterize as the "Socialist" anti-American crowd who are exaggerating the size of the oil spill and its impact on the environment.
Expediting test led to to the blowout and explosion and sinking of Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil rig.
Rachel Maddow uses footage from 60 Minutes expose of BP & the blowout , explosions and the sinking of the rig and creating a massive environmental disaster and the deaths of 11 people. BP convinced Rig owners Transocean to ignore protocol to plug the hole . Rationale of BP that by doing this then when extracting the oil would flow faster. Government Engineer investigating the blow out talks about what he knows so far which is that BP acted in a criminal manner.
And Whistle Blower says that another BP Rig Atlantis is operating without abiding by regulations.
One of the survivors of the Deepwater Horizon disaster explains BP's cavalier attitude about safety regulations or protocols in their drilling and then the caping of the pipe.
Minerals Management Services refuse to testify at Homeland security Committee
The head of MMS suddenly retires -wild guess he had a rather cozy relationship with the oil industry . Obama just announced he was going to end that cozy relationship and divide up the department.
BP's Haste Lays Waste to Gulf Waters
Rachel Maddow via Common Dreams or go to Rachel Maddow Show online MSNBC
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Rachel Maddow discusses the issue of massive underwater oil plumes
Guest Mark Schrope -Science Journalist who was on the research vessel The Pelican says it is a shocking amount of oil already released. It is expected that the oil may continue for another three months and that may even be too optimistic. Science teams discovered what they suspect are oil plumes
Oil Plumes Sparks fears of Dead Zones Via Common Dreams or go to Rachel Maddow Show online
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and more on BPs poor safety record regarding oil wells and its refineries:
BP Cited for Worst OSHA Safety Violations Among U.S. Refiners via CommonDreams.org ,May 17, 2010
Refinery inspection data obtained by the Center under the Freedom of Information Act for OSHA's nationwide program and for the parallel Texas City inspection show that BP received a total of 862 citations between June 2007 and February 2010 for alleged violations at its refineries in Texas City and Toledo, Ohio.
Of those, 760 were classified as "egregious willful" and 69 were classified as "willful." Thirty of the BP citations were deemed "serious" and three were unclassified. Virtually all of the citations were for alleged violations of OSHA's process safety management standard, a sweeping rule governing everything from storage of flammable liquids to emergency shutdown systems. BP accounted for 829 of the 851 willful violations among all refiners cited by OSHA during the period analyzed by the Center.
Top OSHA officials told the Center in an interview that BP was cited for more egregious willful violations than other refiners because it failed to correct the types of problems that led to the 2005 Texas City accident even after OSHA pointed them out. Jordan Barab, deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, said it was clear that BP "didn't go nearly far enough" to correct deficiencies after the 2005 blast.
"The only thing you can conclude is that BP has a serious, systemic safety problem in their company," Barab said.
and so it goes,
GORD.
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