Gulf Oil Spill: BP's Poor Record So Far Dulls Hope For Future

There are close to 4000 oil & gas platforms in US waters in the Gulf, each with multiple wells. There are over 50,000 wells. That's not counting the other offshore oil & gas platforms off America's coastlines.



BP l!ed to the government about having a disaster response plan, but what nobody is talking about is that all of the other oil companies drilling in the Gulf lied, too. Because each was required to file a plan in order to get issued a permit to drill. If their plans were viable, they would have been examined when this rig blew up & BP's plan (that lists walruses among the marine life to look out for in the Gulf of Mexico in the event of a spill, even though walruses really only live in the Arctic & in places where it‘s really cold) was determined to be no plan at all. BP had just copied their Arctic plan & submitted it as their Gulf plan apparently (BP is moving ahead with drilling in the arctic, with the blessing of the government http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/energy/5533-bp-plans-to-move-ahead-with-offshore-oil-drilling-in-arcticic ).



The situation is that we have 50,000 oil wells in US waters in the Gulf of Mexico, by many different oil companies, & none of them have disaster response plans in the event of an accident.



From Rachel Maddow's Show -



Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STDJnM2BXTE



Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHuRT-DF4C8
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