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He is very frustrated, he says he has a lot of high quality boom to go and it is taking a long time for BP to get its act together. Don’t you need this boom right now?
ALLEN: Oh we need all the boom wherever we can get it. If you give me the information off camera I’ll be glad to follow up.
It is painfully obvious, the right hand has no idea what the left hand is doing.
This is truly outrageous. The people down in LA are screaming for more boom as more and more oil washes on shore.
I hope my own personal health (Obamacare) never descends into an oil-spill-catastrophe of Gulf Coast proportions. Because as it stands right now, the death panel stands ready to deny me the boom that I need to survive.
Just google "who offered help to BP on oil spill" and you will see link after link after link of companies, states, countries who offered equipment, boats and manpower help to the US government/BP dating back to April.
Admitting here to confusion as to who should be in charge I did some googling. This article came up in the Huffington Post and here's a quote:
Quote:
If anybody is frustrated with this response, I would tell them their symptoms are normal, because I'm frustrated, too," said Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen.
"Nobody likes to have a feeling that you can't do something about a very big problem," Allen told The Associated Press Friday.
Still, as simple as it may seem for the government to just take over, the law prevents it, Allen said.
After the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, Congress dictated that oil companies be responsible for dealing with major accidents – including paying for all cleanup – with oversight by federal agencies. Spills on land are overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency, offshore spills by the Coast Guard.
"The basic notion is you hold the responsible party accountable, with regime oversight" from the government, Allen said. "BP has not been relieved of that responsibility, nor have they been relieved for penalties or for oversight."
He and Coast Guard Adm. Mary Landry, the federal onsite coordinator, direct virtually everything BP does in response to the spill – and with a few exceptions have received full cooperation, Allen said.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was even more emphatic.
"There's nothing that we think can and should be done that isn't being done. Nothing," Gibbs said Friday during a lengthy, often testy exchange with reporters about the response to the oil disaster.
There are no powers of intervention that the federal government has available but has opted not to use, Gibbs said.
Asked if President Barack Obama had confidence in BP, Gibbs said only: "We are continuing to push BP to do everything that they can."
So the government can't take over it seems. We can just oversee it.
Admitting here to confusion as to who should be in charge I did some googling. This article came up in the Huffington Post and here's a quote:
So the government can't take over it seems. We can just oversee it.
We are at the mercy of BP?
And just what would we do if the government took it over ?
They have no equipment nor expertise..it would take them weeks to put out a bid for a contract FROM AN OIL COMPANY that has the equipment.duh.
What the government HAD control over were permits/plans/inspections and they dropped the ball on that. Now we all suffer the consequences of bungled actions by both a company and a government overseeing that company.
What good are regulations if they are not followed ?
Housing - banking - stock trading and now oil drilling.
Soon they will be in charge of health insurance..lord knows what will happen in that arena
Admitting here to confusion as to who should be in charge I did some googling. This article came up in the Huffington Post and here's a quote:
So the government can't take over it seems. We can just oversee it.
We are at the mercy of BP?
Wrong!
This is federal waters and the idiot in charge has many options he could have used and of course he probably did not even know that.
Federal lands and water is his responsibility.
Many specialist, companies and countries have offered their help and of course Obama wants to pull a Mayor Nagan and try to be a hero. And we all know what happened to the hero Nagan's people.
He steps in now wanting to be the hero and will come out looking like the oil drenched lame duck that he is.
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