Executives from British Petroleum, Transocean, and Haliburton at the Gulf oil spill hearings. AP Photo
Not surprisingly, no one seems to be willing to take the blame for the Gulf oil spill. Today, Congressional hearings began to find the cause of the spill and evaluate the responses after the initial explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Executives from British Petroleum, Transocean, and Haliburton all came to testify and take questions from Senators. Here is how the blame game played out during the hearings.
British Petroleum seemed to place blame on Transocean who was actually operating the Deepwater Horizon rig. Lamar McKay, the head of BP America, said a blowout preventer should have shut off the pipeline once the rig stopped operating. Instead that "fail safe" device failed. The blowout preventer was owned by Transocean.
Transocean returned the favor by firing back at British Petroleum. Steven Newman, CEO of Transocean, stated British Petroleum was responsible for the entire site and for the entire plan to drill the well. The Transocean executive pointed the finger at Haliburton, who was responsible for encasing the well pipe. Some have said improper cementing could have caused the methane bubble which ended up causing the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon.
Finally, the Haliburton executive claimed their work was done within the requirements of British Petroleum and industry standards.
To their credit, British Petroleum has begun to take some claims from people damaged by the spill. Still, it is clear each of the companies involved seem unwilling to take ultimate responsibility for the disaster.
Comments
do a 3 stooges slap across all 3 at that table...Nyuk Nyuk
Did ANY elected official take ANY responsibility at all?
What did you expect? says:
"Did ANY elected official take ANY responsibility at all?"
yeah, Cheney and Bush said they were sorry for deregulating the oil industry.
Look at all those white people! The man is poisoning us. He is killing or fish and our water.
Super comment Uncle Tom. Let's take a vote how many believe Uncle Tom's comment shows that...
1.) racism runs rampant, far and wide among the liberal left.
-or-
2.) Uncle Tom is actually a false flag conservative.
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3.) Just another stupid adhomenen attack from the peanut gallery
klatoo says:
"Super comment Uncle Tom. Let's take a vote how many believe Uncle Tom's comment shows that...
1.) racism runs rampant, far and wide among the liberal left.
-or-
2.) Uncle Tom is actually a false flag conservative.
-or-
3.) Just another stupid adhomenen attack from the peanut gallery "
obviously 2.) Uncle Tom is actually a false flag conservative. and 4) it shows the racisim of the right...if fact, it shows the writer to be a probable KKK sypathizer.
It could be Walrus, it could be. I think the the guy is a lying sack of sh_t. Which would be selection 5.)
klatoo says:
"It could be Walrus, it could be. I think the the guy is a lying sack of sh_t. Which would be selection 5.) "
a little paranoid are we? shooting off in all directions.
selection 6) Stan
It's time that the 'people' had a 'hearing' for the Congress. These hypicritical windbags talk, talk, talk. Why aren't they using all that 'power' to assist with the clean up as if it were a national emergency? They can call their 'hearings' when the crisis has passed!
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