tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post3156899922755126440..comments2024-03-28T05:30:09.322-04:00Comments on Corporate Justice Blog: Worst Oil Spill in U.S. History Will Devastate the Ecosystem, Economy, and CultureSteven Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16741346526253732489noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post-6799187554584763422015-01-13T00:31:20.993-05:002015-01-13T00:31:20.993-05:00These accidents how it will happen and how a leak ...These accidents how it will happen and how a leak in the pipeline could continue for so long time, these kind of things should be taken care by oil companies.Working in Offshore sector is great thing, but at the same time we have to take care of ourselves.Sometimes oil spill accidents may occur.There are few worst Offshore Oil spills taken place in history.In this<a href="http://www.offshore-technology.com/features/featurecrude-calamities---the-biggest-offshore-oil-spill-disasters-4365600/" rel="nofollow"> Deepwater Horizon oil Spill</a> , USA is the biggest disaster and taken 11 people lives and killed thousands of marine species including birds,turtles and dolphins.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248938603040287981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post-25964842168553191202010-11-15T10:49:04.159-05:002010-11-15T10:49:04.159-05:00When the spill began I assumed that BP would quick...When the spill began I assumed that BP would quickly stop the leak and clean up the oil. How a leak in a pipe could continue for so long and be called an act of God shocked me. Im a 2L and I could make a strong argument on the spot as to why this leak was foreseeable. But then why should BP worry Americans have a short memory, we have already forgotten.Janelle C.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post-54703689276778415912010-05-07T17:03:35.982-04:002010-05-07T17:03:35.982-04:00Steve Newbold St. Thomas 3L
As Prof. Pierre-Louis...Steve Newbold St. Thomas 3L<br /><br />As Prof. Pierre-Louis corretly points out, the real issue is the foreseeability of Halliburton, and not Obama's response to the oil spill. <br /><br />How is Halliburton not prepared for these types of catostrophic events? As Prof. Pierre-Louis mentions, this is not the first disaster of it's kind, when you look back at the 1989 Exon Oil Spill. <br /><br />There may be room to criticize Obama, but you die-hard republicans will never get to the root of the problem. <br /><br />Obama needs to hold Halliburton accountable for this disaster in some way. A real evaluation of Obama won't be in regards to his response to the disaster itself, but whether or not he has it in him to hold Halliburton responsible. <br /><br />I think it's safe to assume he won't, given his established ties to Wall Street and this culture of bailouts.<br /><br />But you Republicans will never raise this, because it would force you to look into the corruption of your own party. Obama's ties to these corporations is just a continuation of the an already established partnership between the White House and Wall Street that already existed during the Bush administration. <br /><br />I'm guessing Republicans see it as their duty to deflect blame from Halliburton since it's Dick Cheney's company, even though Halliburton is obviously in a better position to prepare for these types of disasters than Obama and the Coast Guard. <br /><br />The mainstream media wants to frame the argument in the same way they framed Katrina, because they know the public will bite on it from this angle, regardless of how absurd it is. <br /><br />Can we stop this media bias nonsense? <br /><br />There is a bias in the media, but you are completely missing what it is.<br /><br />The media is biased, but not in the conventional way that "anonymous" has assumed. The media is biased toward the "elites" in general. <br /><br />You have Fox News who takes the side of the "right" and the other news outlet takes the side of the "left." <br /><br />They work together to misframe issues and convince you that each fight is centered around the liberal vs. conservative idealogies.<br /><br />If you took the time, to research the chain of command all the way to the top of each news station you would see that each company is controlled by "elites" who really don't disagree on very much.<br /><br />So yes, there is a biased, and it's not toward democrats and it's not towad republicans. The biased is toward elites and is against you, by keeping you uninformed and thus easily controlled. <br /><br />Ask yourself why Rupert Murdoch donated so much money to Hillary Clinton. <br /><br />I realize that the notion that liberals and conservatives at the top are really on the same side takes a lot of people out of their comfort zones, but there's just so much overwhelming evidence that supports this notion, that you have to willfully be keeping your eyes closed to not see it. <br /><br />We do not even have a two party system. We have a "one party system" and they are the democrat/republican/corporate party.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post-44666301304741514252010-05-06T00:26:13.922-04:002010-05-06T00:26:13.922-04:00The Washington Post has changed the link to the ab...The Washington Post has changed the link to the above story, <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011780029_oilrules05.html" rel="nofollow">Here's a new link to the story.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post-32779753233680876122010-05-05T16:38:08.041-04:002010-05-05T16:38:08.041-04:00Gee, let's see if we can connect the dots:
BP...Gee, let's see if we can connect the dots:<br /><br /><i>BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.</i> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html" rel="nofollow">Politico</a><br /><br /><i>“The Interior Department exempted BP’s calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.”</i> <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/05/04/ST2010050405322.html?sid=ST2010050405322" rel="nofollow">The Washington Post</a><br /><br />Try to imagine the outrage on the left if this had been George W. Bush and Dick Cheney accepting huge campaign donations from an oil company only to find out that that company's Gulf drilling operations, which later became the source of the largest oil spill in U.S. history, were exempted from environmental impact analysis.<br /><br />It's time to take off the ideological blinders and to start holding this administration accountable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post-30585304453530973302010-05-05T14:03:46.681-04:002010-05-05T14:03:46.681-04:00In fact, there was a plan in place to deal with a ...In fact, there was a plan in place to deal with a spill, as Ron Gouguet, a former NOAA official, points out:<br /><br /><i>MOBILE, Ala. -- Federal officials should have started burning oil off the surface of the Gulf last week, almost as soon as the spill happened, said the former oil spill response coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</i> <br /><br /><i>Ron Gouguet, who also managed Louisiana's oil response team for a time, said federal officials missed a narrow window of opportunity to gain control of the spill by burning last week, before the spill spread hundreds of miles across the Gulf, and before winds began blowing toward shore.</i><br /><br /><i>"They had pre-approval. The whole reason the plan was created was so we could pull the trigger right away instead of waiting ten days to get permission ... It's unfortunate they didn't get the burning going right away. <b>They could have gotten 90 percent of the oil before it spread."</b></i><br /><br /><i>Gouguet, now an environmental consultant with Windward Associates in Seattle, was part of the group that created the 1994 plan designed to allow federal responders to begin burning oil as soon as a major spill occurred, without an approval process.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/burning_should_have_started_a.html" rel="nofollow">Mobile Register</a><br /><br />The media has bent over backwards to downplay and hide the Obama adminstration's poor handling of this crisis. Having destroyed any claim to objectivity in promoting his canidacy and getting him elected, they are reluctant to expose his incompetence. The administration downplayed the potential for a major spill and failed to respond agressively at the very beginning of the crisis. They failed to act according to long established plans and were unaware of the response capacity of key departments and agencies. Their response so far has consisted of dispatching lawyers to New Orleans and shutting down other rigs that have nothing to do with the BP disaster.<br /><br />Yes, BP will have to make restitution to those whose livlihoods have been impacted and pay for the clean up. At this time, there is absolutely no evidence that Haliburton is responsible for the fire that led to the collapse of the rig, so implying that they are is irresponsible. Barrack Obama, not Dick Cheney, is in charge and he alone should be held responsible for the governments response. It's time for him to stop blaming others, and man-up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post-89344104350774376132010-05-05T11:35:13.560-04:002010-05-05T11:35:13.560-04:00I can't believe that BP still can't stop t...I can't believe that BP still can't stop the oil form gushing out. Where are the enigneers! I feel real bad for the Louisiana folks. They just can't get a break. You raise a good point professor, where is BP's contingency plan? These companies make billions off of our backs and they can't put together a viable contingency plan. It's because they are so used to keeping the profits and letting the government bail them out, literally off the tax payers backs. BP better pay for this mess but that is just part of it. The environment is totally messed up because of this. No seafood, no crabs, no shrimps. This sucks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1194375569044391746.post-47990967226017617142010-05-05T00:21:40.107-04:002010-05-05T00:21:40.107-04:00BP should be held accountable for all losses arisi...BP should be held accountable for all losses arising out of the oil spill. If Halliburton was negligent they should share the costs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com