Lawmakers says oil company spill response plans have same flaws as BP's

[highplainsdem]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two congressmen reviewing oil spill response plans of the nation's five largest oil companies say they are nearly identical — and are all unprepared for an oil spill.

Rep. Ed Markey, chairman of a House Energy panel, said the plans "cite identical response capabilities and tout identical ineffective equipment." The committee looked at plans of BP along with those of ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell Oil.

Markey said at a hearing that two plans list the phone number for the same dead expert, and three include references to protecting walruses — which don't live in the Gulf.

Committee Chairman Henry Waxman called them "cookie cutter plans," and said they are as unprepared as BP was to respond to a spill.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-gulf-oil-spill-oil-companies,0,1688186.story

[laughingliberal]

1. Just a huge failure of the freemarket deregulators.

All these companies have inadequate, cookie cutter plans.

[RockWiggles]

2. Yet GOP is holding press conference today to push for more offshore drilling

[Nihil]

3. No! Say it's not so!

> Two congressmen reviewing oil spill response plans of the nation's five largest
> oil companies say they are nearly identical — and are all unprepared for an oil
> spill.

But I've been repeatedly assured that it is only BP (damn their eyes) that
have such a heinous disregard for the environment!

> ... the plans "cite identical response capabilities and tout identical
> ineffective equipment." The committee looked at plans of BP along with
> those of ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell Oil.

But ... but ... but ... the MEDIA and the President said that it was all those
horrible people at "British Petroleum" (sic) ... who can we believe now?

:rofl:

[shraby]

4. It's about time to call in the financial records of the people

who okayed these "plans"...and the people themselves to ask them a few questions.