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Cheney’s Push of Deregulators Led to BP Disaster
Wilkerson on Cheney Pt2: Cheney’s support for pro-industry “regulators” may be his main damage to America
If it was supervised, if it was overseen, if it was regulated by the federal government, Cheney with his marvellous bureaucratic talent moved in and essentially replaced the people who were in the positions that were central to this regulation, this oversight, with people who were either lobbyists for the industry being regulated or executives from that industry.
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled “National Security Decision Making.”
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Cheney’s push???? Think you should look back to 1996 for the push to deregulation.
Farther than that, fifteen years before would be more correct; the beginning of the Reagan administration.
Environmentalists led to the BP disaster. There is no reason why oil companies should be forced to drill for oil a mile underwater when there are plenty of sites available on land and in shallow water, where spills are much easier to prevent and contain.
Nonsense, there are 3858 active platforms in the Gulf ranging in depth from a few feet down to two miles.
The reason that they are drilling deeper and in more difficult and hazardous areas is that the easy stuff has all been taken or is in sensitive areas.
It’s past time to get off the carbon fuels wagon and look at energy in the light of modern knowledge and wisdom.
The uncontrolled gusher in the Gulf was caused by corporate greed and criminal negligence abetted by ignorant and shortsighted apologists in the electorate.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FORMER CHIEF SCIENTIST OF US NAVY HAS SUGGESTIONS FOR BP—WHY ISN’T THIS RESOURCE BEING EXPLOITED?
JUNE 4, 2010— JOHN PINA CRAVEN’S JOB WAS SOLVING PROBLEMS DEEP UNDER THE OCEAN FOR THE NAVY INCLUDING AN OIL WELL LEAK OFF THE COAST OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA. Craven’s job as the Director of the Navy’s Office of Special Projects required him to deal with many challenges. Despite his history of solving problems as intractable as the current BP oil leak, nobody has contacted Craven. In an interview with independent investigative journalist, Glenn Murphy, Craven said that maybe BP’s officials think that he is dead because he had a serious accident about two years ago.
Craven’s book “The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath The Sea,” details the many complex deep water projects that he handled while Director of the Navy’s office of Special Projects. Among these projects was the repair of a oil-spurting fissure in the ocean floor off of Santa Barbara, California’s coast. His innovative use of a tent to contain the spill and permit the oil to be siphoned off saved the coastline as well as setting the stage for the seal that was put into place.
In his interview with Glenn Murphy, Craven provided a number of possible solutions to the BP oil spill. He also mentioned a cadre of senior scientists that he has kept in touch with who could provide additional expertise. The question is: “Why hasn’t this valuable resource been tapped by BP?”
Murphy’s 7-part interview with Craven is located at these Youtube links:
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=ZB0g5RddRLg
PART 1
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=2bcJ1CtQYHo&feature=channel
PART 2
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=25XbV__wdhk&feature=channel
PART 3
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=25XbV__wdhk&feature=channel
PART 4
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=25XbV__wdhk&feature=channel
PART 5
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=25XbV__wdhk&feature=channel
PART 6
-2- CRAVEN INTERVIEW
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=hN_SgAbwgis&feature=channel
Relying upon its own resources reduces the number of ideas that BP draws upon to bring this disaster to a close. It is not feasible to wait months to stop this ecological catastrophe. The longer that the oil leaks into the ocean, the greater the damage not just to the ocean, but land and life everywhere. The volatile organic carbon, particularly in gaseous form, evaporate and disperse in rainwater and contaminate land everywhere. If this occurs, it poisons crops, lifestock, forests and water tables.
Before the oil leak and the tons of toxic dispersants kill any more wildlife, sicken any more people or destroy any more natural beauty, perhaps BP might want to tap the expertise of John Pena Craven and his colleagues.
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This report was brought to you by Glenn Murphy, Independent Journalist and producer of Free Will, an independent film.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Glenn Murphy: 509 312 9835
John Pina Craven (808) 373-9369
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Anyone that doesn’t believe that Dick Cheney was THE Sith Lord of the Bush 2 regime is in an altered state of denial. The forestry industry, the big oil companies and the gutting of the EPA are only a few of his dark maneuvers on behalf of big business.
Has Liz Cheney registered as a lobbyist for Dubai based Halliburton, and their OPEC employers?
No! You folks have it all wrong! Dick Cheney, George Bush etc did not cause and did not have anything whatsoever to do with the BP oil well blow out in the Gulf of Mexico. The correct bunch of idiots to blame is BP and the idiots (Transocean) who owned the Deep Horizon oil drilling platform! There are several main reasons as to why the well blew out.
#1. The BP peteroleum engineer got in too damn big of a hurry and would not listen to the sound advice of the Halliburton cementer and the Halliburton well servicing engineer who told the BP peteroleum engineer what would happen if the well bore was displaced with sea water and not leave either 9.5-10 pound brine water or even displace the well bore with a heavy 20 pound drilling mud to maintain control the well and prevent a well blowout while the cement was drying on the outside of the casing on the well bore after the cement job.. The BP peteroleum engineers failure to listen and follow the advice of both the Halliburton cementer and Halliburton well service engineer and BP’s peteroleum engineer failure to follow BP’s own well cementing and well serviceing procedures is what directly caused the well blowout. #2. It is highly obvious Transocean (who owns Deep Horizon drilling platform) and BP did not perform any preventive maintenance on the blowout preventer (BOP) which directly caused the BOP to malfunction and fail at the most critical time when it was needed to shut the well in and prevent the well from blowing out.
The well would not have blown out if BP’s peteroleum engineer would not have had his head stuck way up in his ass somewhere and would have followed BP’s own well cementing and well servicing procedures and most important listened and followed the advice of both the Halliburton cementer and Halliburton well servicing engineer, plus the fact that both Transocean and BP should have made certain that the BOP was maintained and fully functional and operational at all times.
For the past 35 years I have worked in many different areas of the oilfield including employment with Halliburton as a service engineer cementing and fracing both oil and gas wells, drilling fluid engineer, running oil tools down hole, working with blow out preventers and working in several other areas of the oil and gas industry.
While I was not on the Deep Horizon before the well blew out, I have a very good ideal as to what types of heated conversations and highly heated discussions and cuss fights that were was going on between the BP petroleum engineer, Transocean Deep Horizon personnel and the Halliburton cementer and Halliburton well servicing engineer as I have been in many many of the very same types of heated conversations and highly heated discussions and cuss fights with the oil companys engineers, well owners, drilling rig tool pushers, drillers,land owners etc and lots of other assholes in the oilfield.
First of all, the Secretary of Interior would be regulating and making recommendationss for all off shore drilling and its equipment, espcially for a foreign country rig, NOT the Vice President. And most recently, this administration, only two months before the explosion gave that exact oil derrick a 100% safety approval to continue its drilling. That would be the Obama administration, pal. That shrapnel must have wiped out some of your ‘right-wing’ human, common sense.