Congress opens oil spill probe

Congress opens oil spill probe
By Jim Snyder - 05/10/10 06:00 AM ET


BP and other oil industry executives may discover this week just how heavy the boot at their throats can get.

Three congressional committees are set to open investigations of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which was triggered by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig last month.

Since then, an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil a day have streamed into Gulf waters, threatening fragile coastal habitats and reconfiguring the politics of offshore drilling.

BP is also under pressure from the executive branch; Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has pledged the administration will keep its boot to BP’s throat to make sure the oil giant stops and cleans up the spill.

“BP is under huge pressure to justify their practices and to explain what could have gone wrong to the extent that they know,” said Kenneth Green, an energy expert at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Not to worry. The best Big Oil engineers and executives are working on it!

I do wish someone somewhere had a viable plan. This is criminal, so I'm glad it will (hopefully) be looked at and dealt with that way.

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The "best engineers" at BP were all laid off in 1987 when London took over micromanagement at "Sohio" and renamed it "British Petroleum"

then take that probe and shove up Cheney's ass and find those secret energy papers!

I bet they don't.

Don

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Some of them have enabled the oil companies in every way possible. It won't be a complete probe without doing that.