BP and Your Federal Government, welcome you to the Gulf of Mexico’s Dia de los Cortadores de Pipa celebration for the first day of Hurricane Season.
His Tools Are Bigger Than Your Tools
And the sooner he can get this done:
ROV moving under the BOP with headlights as pincer arm prepares to grasp pipe for the saw to cut
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June 1, 2010. Tues afternoon. BP Starts Cutting the Pipes coming out of the BOP of the Deepwater Horizon. Oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon, day 41.
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The Sooner he can go on to getting his life back.
Poor Baby. BP CEO Tony Hayward laments the distraction that 2 million gallons of oil a day can cause when it hits our nation’s biggest marine nursery for subtropical fish, mammals, and birds.
video transcript:
BP CEO Tony Hayward: “We’re sorry.
We’re sorry for the massive disruption this caused to their lives. I…. we’re…. there’s no on who wants this thing over more than I do. I want my life back .”
narrator: Life here may never be the same. The water and all that lives in and around (shows oiled pelican) could be harmed for years. So on this holiday weekend some people in New Orleans protested.
bullhorn: we’re trying to clean up this mess
woman with umbrella: I’m filled with anxiety every night and I hope that BP executives feel the same way, unfortunately I doubt that they do.
Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Mary Landry, lately famous for shepherding the Lost, er, BP’s hapless spokesperson Doug Suttles, thru the official press conferences, has been put back on duty with the Coast Guard to prepare for Hurricane Season. http://www.deepwaterhorizonres…
Just as Attorney General Eric Holder announces a criminal investigation into what BP was doing, and the President issues another sternly worded statement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…“We will closely examine the actions of those involved in the spill. If we find evidence of illegal behavior, we will be extremely forceful in our response.” Holder said in New Orleans.
The president said that if laws are insufficient, they’ll be changed. He said that if government oversight wasn’t tough enough, that will change, too.
Laws, schmaws. What about policy. Who opened more coastal offshore areas to bidding leases? And enforcement of existing safety checks. Who’s MMS signed off on the well design ?
This from the same guy who couldn’t find anybody doing anything criminally wrong with Jack Abramoff’s old unindicted co conspirators, nor from the mercenary and CIA rendition & torture crews since his boss has been in office. Did I mention that Abramoff was a long time lobbyist for foreign energy interests ?
It’s all good !
Pass the candles. Prepare the offerings.
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edit update 5:30 pm PDT:
Per the Alabama Dept of Health pdf link in the first comment, oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has now officially reached the coastline of Alabama, near Dauphin Island, closing the offshore oyster beds, and fishing grounds of that state. You can beach, but don’t get in the water or swim, and seek medical advice if you have trouble breathing. They didn’t say what legal advice to seek if you have trouble earning a living.
Warning. Not. Snark. BP has hired the former press secretary for ex VP Dick Cheney to be their new spokesperson for US media relations. Anne Womack Kolton, formerly of the Brunswick Group , also defended Dick Cheney’s secret Energy Task Force, http://emptywheel.firedoglake…. and ran public affairs in the Dept of Energy under George W Bush.
from Brunswick
http://www.prnewswire.com/news…
Before joining the Department of Energy, Ms. Kolton was Director of
Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she was the
primary spokesperson on issues and policy related to financial markets,
financial institutions and financial education. She has extensive
on-the-record experience with the media, particularly those covering energy
and finance. Ms. Kolton also served as an advisor to Securities and
Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson, as a White House
spokesperson and on major state and national political campaigns.
Cheney, The Treasury, and the SEC. Perfect. If Darth Cheney didn’t have his sticky little fingers in it directly before, he does now.