Oil regulator apologizes for 'Drill, Baby, Drill' cake

Source: The Associated Press



Read more: http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2010/05/oil-regulator-apologizes-for-baby-drill.html

Strip their federal pensions. Half of them belong in jail.

He's got the smell of republicon corporate crony all over him.

It is entirely inappropriate to be shilling for those you are supposedly regulating. No doubt if anyone went looking they would find plenty of actual malfeasance to go along with the cutesy cake caper.

Center Calls for Firing of MMS Alaska Director John Goll
Published on May 21, 2010 - 2:08:50 PM
By: Center for Biological Diversity

TUCSON, Ariz. May 21, 2010 - In response to a New York Times story (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/science/earth/20alaska.html?) revealing that the Alaska office of the Minerals Management Service systematically suppressed scientists and scientific reports, violated environmental policies, and served a cake topped with the words "Drill Baby, Drill," the head of the office yesterday apologized…for the cake.

Alaska Regional Director John Goll allowed the cake to be served at an all-staff meeting he called to discuss Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to reform the agency in the wake of the Gulf oil spill disaster and a rapidly growing scandal caused by what President Obama describes as the agency's "too cozy" relationship with the offshore oil industry.

"Instead of apologizing for baked goods, Mr. Goll should apologize for overriding scientists, kowtowing to the oil industry, and putting Alaska's wildlife and communities at risk of a catastrophic oil spill," said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity.

The head of MMS's Alaska region since 1997, Mr. Goll recently approved a highly controversial and dangerous plan by Shell Oil to begin exploratory drilling in Alaska's Beaufort and Chukchi seas this July. He has refused repeated calls to revoke Shell's permits in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico crisis even though oil spill clean up would be vastly more difficult in the frigid, icy waters of the Arctic than in the Gulf of Mexico.

"Secretary Salazar should fire Mr. Goll immediately," said Suckling. "Goll's mocking of the secretary's plan to reform the agency by telling his employees to "Drill, Baby, Drill" is not just poor taste; it's clear evidence that Mr. Goll has no intention of being reformed. He symbolizes the scandal ridden, industry-dominated MMS of the past. He has no place in the agency's future."

More:
http://yubanet.com/usa/Center-Calls-for-Firing-of-MMS-Alaska-Director-John-Goll.php

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Friday, May 21, 2010
MMS apologizes for inappropriate Drill, Baby, Drill cake

Just in case you didn't feel that MMS was too cozy with the oil drilling industry, their Alaska office removed all doubt. See apology below after NY Times reported on MMS office celebrating the recent finds about their office lacking appropriate environmental standards in review proposed oil drilling efforts in the Arctic with a cake decorated with "Drill, Baby, Drill" on it.

http://oilonthebeach.blogspot.com/2010/05/mms-apologizes-for-inappropriate-drill.html

and make him do community service in the Gulf cleaning up oil!

I'm sure all the (ahem) "regulatory" agencies are still packed with knuckle-draggers who swore their allegiance to The Big Dick and his trained chimp.

from the part of the MMS that is supposed to regulate. Apparently they have been in the same department till now.