Fresh from the Gulf Disaster BP urges Canada legislators

to drop regulations.

Exasperated Canadian legislators grilled the head of BP Plc (BP.L) Canadian unit on Thursday, concerned about the risks of the company’s plans to drill in Arctic waters after the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

But Anne Drinkwater, president of BP Canada, offered few answers at a hearing at Parliament’s Standing Committee on Natural Resources on the safety of drilling in the Far North.

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-Anne may not be very interested in regulation because, well, BP dozen’t care about regulation, which is why the Gulf disaster happened.

It has yet to announce plans to drill in the region but shortly before the U.S. disaster, BP and other oil companies urged Canadian regulators to drop a requirement stipulating that companies operating in the Arctic had to drill relief wells in the same season as the primary well.



http://trueslant.com/allisonkilkenny/2010/05/13/fresh-from-gulf-disaster-bp-urges-canadian-legislators-to-drop-regulations/

These guys go out of their way to fuck up,

And that all facilities be in place to connect them in the event of a blowout BEFORE the final breakthrough into the oil bearing strata.

Same for any form of marine drilling or deep drilling into high pressure resevoirs.

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I can't type here what I would really like to see happen to BP's decision makers.