BP spill response plans severely flawed

[kpete]

Source: Associated Press

By JUSTIN PRITCHARD, TAMARA LUSH and HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writers Justin Pritchard, Tamara Lush And Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 35 mins ago

VENICE, La. – Professor Peter Lutz is listed in BP's 2009 response plan for a Gulf of Mexico oil spill as a national wildlife expert. He died in 2005.

Under the heading "sensitive biological resources," the plan lists marine mammals including walruses, sea otters, sea lions and seals. None lives anywhere near the Gulf.

The names and phone numbers of several Texas A&M University marine life specialists are wrong. So are the numbers for marine mammal stranding network offices in Louisiana and Florida, which are no longer in service.

BP PLC's 582-page regional spill plan for the Gulf, and its 52-page, site-specific plan for the Deepwater Horizon rig are riddled with omissions and glaring errors, according to an Associated Press analysis that details how BP officials have pretty much been making it up as they go along. The lengthy plans approved by the federal government last year before BP drilled its ill-fated well vastly understate the dangers posed by an uncontrolled leak and vastly overstate the company's preparedness to deal with one.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100609/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_sketchy_plans

[seafan]

1. Thanks for posting.

Discussion here also.

[Robbien]

2. Most of the plan is about plugging the leak, and even that is sketchy and stupid

For collecting the spill they only talk about booms, but say booms are terrible because they are rotten at keeping the spill off of land.

But don't worry, says the report, any spill from their drilling won't reach land.


Shame on BP and shame on the Feds who approved the plan.

[Iowa]

3. It's all a big joke to them... a meaningless hoop to jump through.

And they'll get by with it.

[tk2kewl]

4. they submitted boiler plate and nobody looked at it.

that's what deregulation gets you.

[Nihil]

9. Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!

> they submitted boiler plate and nobody looked at it.
> that's what deregulation gets you.

:applause:

[tanyev]

5. Must be a project they save for the summer interns.

[wordpix]

7. "now, now, Sally, that's just fine that the expert we rely on is dead"

[wordpix]

6. but who would know since the agencies charged with regulation are sleeping with the enemy?

[MisterP]

8. but only THEY have the expertise! everything that can be done is being done, so if you criticize the

cleanup, you hate Obama and America!!!!!!1111111