Company refusing to update contingency spill plan in defiance of gov’t regulations
Almost four months after the Deepwater Horizon (DH) explosion, BP has not submitted an updated Gulf of Mexico emergency response plan. It is still relying on its wildly flawed plan with inaccuracies such as emphasizing protection of walruses—which do not live within thousands of miles of the Gulf—and the contact information of an expert who died four years ago. The plan has been excoriated by government officials as a one-size fits all document with information cut-and-pasted from regions around the world. According to the Minerals Management Service (MMS, now renamed BOEM), a revised plan must be submitted within 15 days of an incident if it changes the “worst case scenario discharge.” BP’s response: They deny that the DH changed their worst case scenario, even though the existing plan states that no Gulf spill would approach closer than 30 miles from shore.
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1 Comments to "Still walruses in the Gulf of Mexico? BP keeps flawed plan"
We all know there are no walruses in the Gulf. Although it was a mindless cut-and-paste action, the "walruses in the gulf" issue left some South Louisianians saddened that some people might really not know what animals are really being damaged down here. We put together this video to show them. http://www.thebananaplant.com/no-walruses-in-the-gulf.html
Posted by Sid Berger
on September 19, 2010 at 06:36 PM
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