Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says oil spill puts survival of BP at stake

Source: The Times Online

As a high-stakes operation to shut off a blown-out oil well unfolded on the seabed and a 130-mile wide slick menaced the coastline of four US states, a top US official was warning that the survival of BP as a company was under threat.

Ken Salazar, the US Interior Secretary, accused the oil giant and its partners in the Deepwater Horizon rig of “major mistakes”, adding that ’s] life is very much on the line here”.

A six-member board made up of personnel from the US Coast Guard and the Minerals Management Service, which regulates the oil industry, will begin hearing evidence next week on the April 20 disaster in which 11 workers were killed when pressure surged up a drill pipe and exploded the rig.

“From my own observations, there were some very major mistakes made by the companies that were involved,” said Mr Salazar. “Are they doing everything that they can possibly do? I hope they are.”

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7120158.ece

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The Sarah Palin bit at the end is just shocking. Does she really think this happened because BP are "foreign"?


That's right, Sarah. No US oil company has ever screwed up or polluted one bit.

And then we can go after other scofflaws like Bush and Cheney.

BP is going to have a lot less free cash to pass around to compliant people running for office.

Silly you!!!! :sarcasm:

It's part of his pathology, and a cry for intervention. I say he needs to spend some time with his family, bless his oily black heart.

Is Exxon foreign? Wasn't there some minor little Valdez
catastrophe off Alaska?

brain dead observations out there the better.

leaking like a sieve

U.S. owned oil company.

If BP had spent half of the money it spent on "beyond petroleum" TV ads on safety, they'd be in much better financial shape today. Haven't seen one of those ads after the leak.

but still, American oil companies are just as bad. And Halliburton was involved in this as well. Nice try, Phalin.

"Mrs Palin has seemed to criticize BP as a foreign — and therefore an unreliable — company. “Gulf: learn from Alaska’s lesson w/foreign oil co’s: don’t naively trust — VERIFY,” she told her 143,000 followers this week on Twitter."

Idiot.

Maybe not Shell and BP, but at least the smaller ones. Not because they want to be nice, but because they don't have the influence and the ability to break laws that the big ones do.

Their profits need to be heavily taxed to pay for global warming and future oil releases such as this one

From the last paragraph in the article:



To drive home the point:


Uh... physics says you DO and simultaneously bounce backwards with equal and opposite forces you dumbasses.

This from an association being located in the very state (among the 4 in the immediate path) whose major industries, including fishing and shipping, are still trying to recover from Katrina, and are now being slammed by their arrogance! :banghead:

maybe someone could scream Bophal in her ear.

Otherwise welcome to the list of creditors which would take years and years to resolve.

I would rather the headline read:

oil spill puts survival of Ken Salazar's job at stake

Just like Timmy Geithner and his trusty sidekick Summers.

Because we can't afford the loss of competition or some such nonsense, BP will be bailed out by Middle Class taxpayers so they "don't go bankrupt".

This is the start of setting that stage.

IF....

there is not a hermetic seal with sea bed.

IF....

there is higher pressure inside the cofferdam than outside.

Who really is "BP" other than a bunch of ivy-league suits? they churn out presentations, and attend investment bankers conferences. They dont' drill/dig/sweat/ etc. Everything is outsourced except for the BONUS salary.

Same thing is true for all majors Shell etc.