License to Spill: Cheney, BP and The Gulf of Mexico

[Joanne98]

Run time: 03:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-OrFMLLqJg   Posted on YouTube: May 01, 2010 By YouTube Member: KataVideo Views on YouTube: 280   Posted on DU: May 02, 2010 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 1763

 
May 01, 2010 — Environmental Attorney Mike Papantonio explains to MSNBC's "The Ed Show" how Bush-Cheney Deregulation directly led to the British Petroleum Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, by allowing Big Oil to skip a simple and inexpensive safety measure that many other nations require. The BP spill was threatening the gulf from Louisiana to Florida at the time this video was uploaded. "License To Spill" was granted by his majesty, then-vice president Dick Cheney at his infamous closed-door meeting with oil company executives (otherwise known as "cheney's base").

Never forget, 11 Workers were killed in the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig that led to the spill. Remember that the next time you see someone driving a Hummer or an Escalade. Remember them as we pay up to $4/gallon for gasoline this summer, maybe more.

[GreenTea]

1. I would bet Haliburton's usual shoddy work as well.

Corporations always cut corners for profit whatever they can get away with....and republican and their corporate deregulation make it possible.

And who always ends up paying for corporate deregulation in the end?

[Sky Masterson]

2. "License to Spill" used to be my nickname in my late teens/early twenties

I couldn't hold a beer without spilling it. :)

[Jack Rabbit]

3. This brings up a more serious question

First of all, we don't know what was discussed in the secret task force meetings between Cheney and the energy giants, but there's no reason to suppose the decisions made were in the overall public interest. This is a possibility.

Nevertheless, we should ask how many of BP's offshore oil rigs are not as safe for the environment as they could be. The answer isn't likely to be that it was just this one drilling platform. How many other oil companies have cut corners on environmental safety?

[Raster]

4. Not only do we not know what was discussed, we do not know who attended.

Both sets of information: attendees and agenda, were deemed so important to national security that they are closely guarded and considered "eyes only." One of the few pieces of information we do know from those meetings was a map of Iraq with the oil producing regions clearly marked and suggested boundry points for future petroleum leases.

Those meetings were held, and the map created, well before September 11, 2001.

[Pastiche423]

7. A map such as...

this:



This map was created for the 2001 Energy Task Force Meeting.

[Raster]

9. That would be the map. Funny, how even before 9/11, cheney* knew Iraq's oil fields...

...would be up for grabs.

And there's a very good reason both the agenda AND the attendees are kept secret: you can't issue subpoenas to testify if you can't identify who they should go to.

[breadandwine]

5. This spill would be a gain for Democrats big time EXCEPT

that our DLC White House just caved on offshore oil and Obama as usual is speaking about the crisis in his usual passionless, almost perfunctory way ---


http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/05/02/HP/R/32457/PRES+OBAMA+GOVT+WILL+DO+WHAT+IT+TAKES+TO+STOP+CRISIS.aspx

[demi moore]

6. when the titanic sunk..

they locked the poor people in so the rich people wouldn't be disturbed while they made their getaway.

when it all goes down... you can guarantee they have a backup plan. and only enough life boats for them.

[Enthusiast]

8. The SCOTUS ruled

that the American people are not even allowed to know the names of the participants at those secret energy meetings.

Cheney's asshole buddy Scalia would not recuse himself from making the decision even though he had been duck hunting with Dick shortly before hand.

Remember these are the justices that violated the Constitution by awarding the presidency to George W Bush-an act we may never recovered from.

Now in the Citizens United decision this criminal court chose to hand the country over to corporate thieves.

It all comes down to the court.

[Raster]

10. No truer words: "It all comes down to the court."

That 5-4 conservative majority was THE PRIZE all along.