Offshore Drilling Bill Needs Environmental Safeguards Part 3

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FIRST APPEARED IN TECHNORATI ON 12TH AUGUST

PART 3 - MANDATORY USE OF WATER BASED NON TOXIC DISPERSANT

Despite a forty year lead time between the two major offshore oil spills of the century, the Obama Administration was ill equipped to handle the Gulf Oil crisis. Worse, it let BP with its doubtful track record of safety and environmental protection lead the operations and dictate the course of mitigation, from start to finish, including the crucial selection of dispersant. Like its predecessor, the Union Oil Company in the California spill, BP too used easy mitigation techniques which reduced its cost and spread the risk on to the environment.


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