Before Oil Spill, It Was Unclear Who Was in Charge of Rig

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Before Oil Spill, It Was Unclear Who Was in Charge of Rig


By IAN URBINA
Published: June 5, 2010


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NEW ORLEANS — Over six days in May, far from the familiar choreography of Washington hearings, federal investigators grilled workers involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in a chilly, sterile conference room at a hotel near the airport here.

The six-member panel of Coast Guard and Minerals Management Services officials pressed for answers about what occurred on the rig on April 20 before it exploded. They wanted to know who was in charge, and heard conflicting answers.

They pushed for more insight into an argument on the rig that day between a manager for BP, the well’s owner, and one for Transocean, the rig’s owner, and asked Curt R. Kuchta, the rig’s captain, how the crew knew who was in charge.

“It’s pretty well understood amongst the crew who’s in charge,” he said.

“How do they know that?” a Coast Guard investigator asked.



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[BrklynLiberal]

1. It would appear that it was almost inevitable that such a tragedy would occur,

since the entire situation was what one might call FUBAR.

[jody]

2. Don't know who was in charge but it's obvious federal laws were not enforced. Presidents

of both parties are to blame for letting corporations with limited liability take such foreseeable risks as resulted in the BP oil spill.

When will We the People draw a line in the sand and stop playing the game, "Heads corporations make obscene profits, Tails the people pay for the losses"?

[Angry Dragon]

3. It almost seems like that they

have played the game of keeping information from the public that they do not even share information with each other.

I shake my head and say we are governed by the insane.

[jody]

4. Precisely, "we are governed by the insane" elected by We the People who fight over divisive,

polarizing issues like god, gays, and guns while the high priests of mammon pass laws with bi-partisan support that allow corporations to rape and pillage our inheritance.