John Byrne at RawStory today…
Oil inspectors let companies fill in own audits, while one admitted getting high on meth, report says
Regulators overseeing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico reportedly allowed oil company officials to fill in their own inspection reports. According to the internal probe being released this week, oil officials sketched out their answers in pencil and turned them over to federal oversight officials, who then traced their answers in pen.
And as if that wasn’t enough, a Louisiana inspector from the Minerals Management Service purportedly admitted to investigators that he’d used crystal methamphetamine, and may have been high on the illegal stimulant during a drilling inspection.
The Inspector General’s report was previewed Tuesday in the New York Times. The report is sure to set off a bombshell in Washington, where Congress is probing how a massive and still-growing oil leak was allowed to happen in the Gulf of Mexico. None of the reports findings directly address the lead-up to the spill from the sinking of Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon rig in April, but they certainly draw a picture of a watchdog asleep — or high — at the wheel.
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“I am filled with unutterable loathing”.
Fuck you Obama….
So blessed with bounty, from sea to “shining sea”.
Now the Gulf with an oil sheen and the bounty, the birds, the aquatic wildlife dying in thick black goo. So much for the proud Eagle.
It really feels Apocalyptic. The latest essays, info and pictures here (I linked to that monkeyfister video earlier and couldn’t believe it was true) all seem to point to something worse having happened. And it’s VERY doubtful that this gaping volcano of oil/gas can be stopped.
How much worse can it get? I am so sad . . .
This is just all so fucking horrible…It makes me fucking want to cry…
It took this for this monstrous coward in the White house to be exposed as the charlatan right winger he is…..
Obama believes in his own grandiosity….That will be his undoing..
…outside BP Hdqrtrs in Houston:
h/t — Thom Hartmann
when certain animals are killed off – other’s multiply that shouldn’t in that particular ecosystem. Problematic in the future if there is a future there –
It’s accepted apparently – see any crowds out there. It’s okay.
If Barack would get off his throne and make some noise – there actually might be some noise out here.
What a disaster he is –