What new safety regs? What reports states that anyone knows how to stop a ddep well from exploding or that there won't be any spill? The root cause of the deep water horizon calamity is, like other catastrophe's like Katrina and the Columbia shuttle, as much due to cultural deficiencies throughout the industry. These can't be reduced until the industry, and its regulators, admit that it is broken and comes up with ways to make the essential cultural transformations along with fixing the broken technology and processes.
I see no precedent for that happening in less than 6 months.
What we are "enjoying" now with the threatened collapses of the oil & gas insdustry are the consequences of poor, unethical safety-related engineering practices. There's only one rule that industry and the T-P editorial staff need to be remined of - put safety first. What the judge should have done is require companies to prove that safety of all elements is first. The resoning he did use threatens the lives and properties
Posted on Salazar seeks to reimpose drilling moratorium on June 23, 2010, 11:47AM
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