Obama Oil Spill Press Conference: Government In Charge Of Oil Disaster Response

Obama is allowing offshore oil drilling by BP and other oil companies with bad records to continue in the Gulf and other US waters.



BP's Atlantis platform (off the coast of Louisiana in "Hurricane Alley" at a water depth of more than 7,000 feet) poses a serious, immediate and potentially irreparable threat to the Gulf of Mexico's marine environment, oil workers and communities.



Atlantis operates with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, which one official warned could "lead to catastrophic operator error," much worse than BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, many times larger than the spill from the Horizon explosion:



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