Obama to meet families of 11 killed in oil spill

Source: MSNBC

Obama to meet families of 11 killed in oil spill
updated 3:48 a.m. PT, Thurs., June 10, 2010

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is offering condolences to relatives of the 11 workers who were killed when an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.

Obama wrote to the families and invited them to visit the White House on Thursday.

Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama also wants to hear the families' thoughts on changes the government can make to ensure that future deepwater oil drilling is safe. Obama put a temporary halt to such drilling after the April 20 explosion off Louisiana's coast.

Asked whether Obama thought the families of the 11 men had been lost in the focus on efforts to stop the millions of gallons of crude that have been gushing from the broken underwater well, Gibbs said: "They are certainly not forgotten."

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THIS is what killed them:



mikey_the_rat

failure of BP to make sure that all the safety regulations were in place, and all the equipment was working properly. They were killed because some BP corporate suit ignored the objections of the TransOcean engineers and decided that they had to pump oil out faster.

I have no doubts about that. Just another reason to haul Cheney up before Congress---he is largely responsible and HE should be paying out for the MMS debacle, too.