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Sunday, May 02, 2010

BP Fought Safety Measures at Deepwater Oil Rigs


BP, the company that owned the Louisiana oil rig that exploded last week, spent years battling federal regulators over how many layers of safeguards would be needed to prevent a deepwater well from this type of accident.

One area of immediate concern, industry experts said, was the lack of a remote system that would have allowed workers to clamp shut Deepwater Horizon's wellhead so it would not continue to gush oil. The rig is now spilling 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico.'

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2 comments:

  1. This is a crying shame! It's time for the government to impose much stricter regulation on the oil companies.

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  2. Actually, BP doesn't 'own' the oil rig as the above article claims at its outset, but have been leasing it from a multi-billion dollar company named Transocean, who are the world leaders in offshore drilling.

    Why then isn't Transocean being held accountable - or what about Haliburton, who were responsible for fabricating the defective well-casing which led to the initial explosion of Deepwater Horizon (which in turn caused further damage to the wellhead when it sank)?

    Could it be that powers larger than all of them have effectively put a cap on the truth of the matter, and are doing their utmost to ensure no further leaks to the media they control?

    Why is B.P. accepting full responsibility for this 'leak', agreeing to pay fines levied against them by the U.S. Government (now estimated at $47 billion, based on 'spillage' to date)?

    Could it have anything to do with the fact it was they who effectively lobbied the Bush Administration to drop the requirement for a back-up capping procedure in the event of catastrophe just like this, and are now 'taking the hit' in order to protect others even more powerful?

    Who could be more powerful than the same company that financed the British Government in the Crimean War, and financed the formation of the state of Israel (i.e. British Petroleum)?

    The answer to that question can be found by raising another: "who owned B.P. during those times?"

    British Petroleum was initially owned by the Rothschild family, who then used their untold riches to form, first the Federal Reserve Board, then the IMF (along with the the Morgans, Rockefellers, and others).

    Is it possible, then, that B.P. still has the financial backing of the IMF and Federal Reserve Board, and are acting on their behalf?


    How else would it be possible for British Petroleum to have made the giant strides it has made toward restoring the Western Hemisphere's position in OPEC during the past few years, (by increasing British Petroleum production worldwide)?

    This can be attributed partially to the fact that it is British Petroleum who now have almost exclusive access to the oilfields of Iraq, but also because they have entered into a direct partnership with the emerging global economic super-power of this era (China) to drill in countries which broke away from Russia during its dissolution!

    In other words, multi-national corporations are now entering into direct partnerships with the largest world nations, in a manner suggesting they have more 'clout' than their 'home' governments, and the governments with whom they make these deals.

    Certainly, this would not be possible without the IMF's (and U.S. Federal Reserve Board's) blessing and financial backing. In fact,its likely they are they are all factions of the same entity.

    Some claim that the IMF established, at its outset, one of its primary goals - a 90% global population reduction, and another to limit the effectiveness of national governments, and establish a unified New World Order.

    It looks like they may be well on their way to accomplishing their goals, but at what cost to all humanity?

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