Oil Commission Baffled By Lowball Estimates; Suspects They Slowed Response

They all use "carbon copy" plans.  

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Some of the "cookie cutter" response plans even mention walruses, Markey said, a marine mammal that he pointed out hasn't lived in the Gulf of Mexico for 3 million years.

"The only technology you seem to be relying on is a Xerox machine to put together your response plans," Markey said.  

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If the plans aren't workable, if they aren't implementable or haven't been implemented, they don't have plans.

Oil companies aren't required to just "produce a plan" -- They are required to produce workable plans and implement them.  And the government is required to make sure they do.  That's one of the MMS's jobs.  Because the government has a role in the response, too.  The federal government and the state governments.  

I wrote about this before the congressional hearing exposed that fact.  That when it was discovered that BP had no plan, if workable plans existed at all for any of the 50,000 wells in the Gulf,  then use it.  

But it was known before the blow-out that there were no plans.  And we know that because of the legislation that set up the MMS in the first place.  
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