Wednesday, June 09, 2010

BP's Approved Spill Plan 'Riddled With Omissions And Glaring Errors'

BP's Approved Spill Plan 'Riddled With Omissions And Glaring Errors':

"VENICE, La. (AP) -- Professor Peter Lutz is listed in BP's 2009 response plan for a Gulf of Mexico oil spill as a national wildlife expert. He died in 2005.

Under the heading 'sensitive biological resources,' the plan lists marine mammals including walruses, sea otters, sea lions and seals. None lives anywhere near the Gulf.

The names and phone numbers of several Texas A&M University marine life specialists are wrong. So are the numbers for marine mammal stranding network offices in Louisiana and Florida, which are no longer in service.

BP PLC's 582-page regional spill plan for the Gulf, and its 52-page, site-specific plan for the Deepwater Horizon rig are riddled with omissions and glaring errors, according to an Associated Press analysis that details how BP officials have pretty much been making it up as they go along."

Since we have such an accelerating prison population, let's add a few oil executives.

The best idea I've heard is form a new CCC to clean this up at BP's expense, 100s of thousands on the payroll and get the job done and put folks to work.  Never happen. Sounds "socialist."

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