Looks like they took lessons from Briffa.
The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are accusing his administration of misrepresenting their views to make it appear that they supported a six-month drilling moratorium — something they actually oppose.
The experts, recommended by the National Academy of Engineering, say Interior Secretary Ken Salazar modified their report last month, after they signed it, to include two paragraphs calling for the moratorium on existing drilling and new permits.
Salazar’s report to Obama said a panel of seven experts “peer reviewed” his recommendations, which included a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs and an immediate halt to drilling operations.
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They imposed the moratorium despite the pleadings of Governor Jindal , and I suspect the govs of the other gulf coast states as well – except Florida , of course . The resulting loss of jobs and income will cripple their economies . Furthermore , every day the govt. refuses to take any steps to clean this mess up by any means at their disposal – including waiving the Jones Act and employing genetically engineered bacteria – means more spoiled beaches , more ruined oyster beds and more devastated fishing grounds . What the hell are they thinking ? Or , rather , are they thinking at all ? Can they really be this incompetent ?
Gee usually when the government has 7 experts do a peer review of something like this they get at least one expert to recommend the addition of the sock-it-to-em paragraphs so they can say the paragraphs came out of peer review.
Must be inexperience!
FYI.
Here is Salazar’s report:
http://www.stb07.com/downloads/increased-safety-measures-mms-ocs.pdf
Here is the letter from the seven experts:
http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/NEWSMMIX/2010jun00112.html
We in Australia are bombarded with pro CAGW rubbish continually. Every day, noon and night. Young people are targetted most, I guess they are…”easily lead”, sheep, lambs etc. Monday night’s we have a program called “Good News Week” and it is a hoot. But tonight, they have to “squeeze” “climate change” in to the theme for the night, as they have done always, but this time twice. It’s a popular show, so “they” are using all possible avenues to “spread the message”.
James Sexton:
when the American people wake from their slumber …
Trouble is they are working….don’t have time for anything else. However there is always hope for hard working people, good always prevails.
Here in the UK there is a feeling that the Obama administration is out to destroy BP. A company which changed its name from British Petroleum ten years ago. A compnay that is listed in New York as well as in London and which declares its dividends in dollars not in pounds. A company that has as many US directors as British and is chaired by a Swede. A company that employs almost twice as many US citizens as British. A company with between 35% and 40% US shareholders including many pension plans.
Transocean, the US-owned contractors (who shifted their HQ to Switzerland two years ago), who owned and operated the rig which did the damage has just made a $1 billion payment. No question of its dividend being placed in escrow until their responsability for the disaster is explored. Perhaps they are cleverer than BP in the parties to which they make their political donations.
Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium is a panic response. He cannot think of any way to stop the leak, so he does the first thing that comes to mind, regardless of the fact, the absolute fact, that it will only exacerbate the situation.
The government’s responsibility is not to cap the well, an area where it has no competence, but to ameliorate the damage. It is failing there. To make things worse, govt-issued red tape is holding up efforts by local governments and individuals to protect themselves.
Obama could cut through the red tape by edict. He is not of a mind to do this, that would take leadership. All he knows how to do is accuse others, to stir the masses with diatribes and demagoguery, but that doesn’t bother an oil spill in the least.
We have booms stacked in warehouses, we have bulldozers and dredges ready to seal off barrier islands, but the man with the authority is devoting his efforts to avoiding the responsibility.
A deliberate false statement to a federal officer is obstruction of justice. It should be prosecuted and if the party found guilty the party should share a cell next to Bernie (Madoff or Ebbers take your pick). Not to be too political about this, but I am getting rather tired of being lied to.
Pedals for every appliance and extra sails/balloons for cars and airplanes:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10313921.stm
Quote:
Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action. – Auric Goldfinger (Ian Fleming, (Goldfinger, 1959)
Once: Failure to approve barrier islands in Louisiana.
Twice: Failure to waive Jones Act.
Third time: Offshore oil drilling ban.
Buffoon says:
June 14, 2010 at 8:52 am
Science blog, Watts, science…
Read the strap line on the masthead graphic and report back…
Dave says:
June 14, 2010 at 9:14 am
“Obama administration caught lying and fixing the evidence to suit their agenda.
Next on, Bears seen taking toilet paper into woods….”
Too funny…and too true!
As well as transocean who ran the rig day to day, I believe the failed BOP was made and maintained by US sub contractors.
Maybe BP’s strategy of subcontracting so much activity is the wrong business model. But if the contracts are right, BP should have claims.
The key point tho’ for this blog, is that the spill will be used as evidence that all should get off oil even quicker, via Carbon C & T (conveniently forgetting that much US power is from coal, as I understand it), and even more windmills…..
Incidentally, I send my sincere condolences over the spill to you USA chaps; it is very sad, but maybe less bad for the environment on a larger scale than everyone thinks – oceans have been dealing with spills and seeps for years, which I know is little consolation when looking at local impact.
Just been reported on British TV news that Obama is planning to use this whole thing (hence the ridiculous rhetoric) to push ahead with his climate beliefs, so expect heavy tax on oil companies. Hitting BP with every chance he gets is doubly stupid as a strong BP is going to be required in the coming months and years, not one whose shares have been smashed by Obama’s mouth. Secondly, BP is 40% owned by British pension funds, but another 40% is owned by American ones! The news report says that he will justify sweeping changes to how the US gets its energy by stating that drilling for oil is unsustainable on environmental grounds.
Just saw this on Pajamas Media …
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/breaking-coast-guard-head-was-informed-of-maine-oil-boom-on-521-yesterday-he-claimed-he-didnt-know/
Why aren’t these booms already deployed? What’s causing the delay?
From Russia with love….
America’s Chernobyl
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/11-06-2010/113759-chernobyl-0
I’ll tell you what really gets our goat (tha mean ‘annoys us’) here in the UK, is that Union Carbide’s death toll in Bhopal – where people are still suffering – has never come out of Obama’s mouth! Obama equates this oil spill with 9/11. Doubly odd then, that Obama fails to mention Bhopal – where thousands more people died than died in 9/11. People in glass houses…
Keith, the damage damage to the Gulf States economy will last FAR longer than the damage to the environment.
That BP is as much an American company as a British company is just icing on the cake to O’s administration, I’m afraid. I don’t think he much likes the US.
The real tragedy is not the oil spill but the wanton blame shifting, political positioning and back stairs deal making with the real culprits who caused the accident in the first place. It also shows Obama for the petty small time local organiser he used to be, his eagerness to blame others and his ever ready prejudice is plain to see.
An American company using American equipment staffed by American workers overseen by by American safety officials working to American regulations made a sreies of catastrophic mistakes and errors and yet Obama tries to blame “British petroleum” when in fact BP is a US/UK partnership, the kneejerk attack on the hated British is revealing of his character isnt it?
The Obama regime is made up of petty small time local trouble makers who hit the jackpot, their response is that of people who are out of their depth in a job they are not suited for.
“The Obama regime is made up of petty small time local trouble makers who hit the jackpot, their response is that of people who are out of their depth in a job they are not suited for.”
We had a government just like that for 13 years in the UK. They’ve just been kicked out.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/13/the-ipcc-consensus-on-climate-change-was-phoney-says-ipcc-insider/
Where’s the line to get in to get our new government issue rice cookers?
I’m sure they know and still BP will not comment on how much oil is down there. But judging by the amount of oil spitting out of this gusher it would seem like they’ve found another Saudi Arabia….. They were in the process of capping the well when the accident occurred so they could go drill someplace else. The “oil crisis” is, well, you guys figure that one out.
Cassandra King says:
June 14, 2010 at 11:59 am
The Obama regime is made up of petty small time local trouble makers who hit the jackpot, their response is that of people who are out of their depth in a job they are not suited for.
Let’s see.
Secretary of Energy
Steven (Paint your roof white) Chu
And
Science czar
John (I want to put sterilants in your drinking water) Holdren
I see no problem.
Fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud…