Hey folks,
Happy Mother's Day to you. Welcome to the Big Sunday Edition of the OPNTalk Blog. Yes, that right. My question was asked at the last API / Blogger Conference Call and it was said to be unlikely by the Experts. Yes. sorry my friends, I could not make this one either. I had prior obligations. But I was there in Spirit. I have just posted the Transcript of the entire Conference Call that I would have loved to have attended.At the 27:46 mark, Tim Hurst from Ecopolitology had the following exchange with Richard Ranger, Upstream/Industry Operations, API, and Robin Rorick, Group Director, Marine & Security, API.
27:46 MR. HURST: Yeah, this is Tim Hurst from Ecopolitology. There are a few reports or I guess pundit comments {That would be me} in the days after the accident that this could have been some kind of inside job or sabotage of some sort committed by environmentalists. I was hoping – I understand that we're still a long way from figuring out a cause here.
I was hoping someone from API could comment on how easy or difficult it would be for someone to get on a offshore oil rig and sabotage it somehow.
28:21 MR. RANGER: We have no information on that, Tim, but the – it‟s real hard to get on rigs. You don't just drive a boat up to them and get off on the ladder. So the people who are on the rig are people who are on a manifest who have a job to do.
28:44 ROBIN RORICK: And I would add – this is Robin RORICK – I would agree with Richard. We're talking probably well in excess of 80 feet from the barge to the lowest point on the platform that you would have to scale. These platforms are in the middle of the water so it's not like you can really sneak up on them.
And then it is – there are crews that work closely with one another on these rigs, so if there was someone who should not have been there, that also would have been fairly obvious.
And then lastly, I would say that this equipment is extremely complicated. And it would take someone with a lot of knowledge and a lot of time to really conduct any sort of sabotage. Now, that being said, I have no idea what the cause of this incident is and I can't really speak to whether or not this was or was not the result of any sort of sabotage.
OK. Logical, and makes a lot of sense. I'm not fully convinced YET that this, the Refinery, and even the Coal Mines, are all completely unrelated or coincidental accidents, but I do understand the obstacles would be enormous to over come to pull it off. I can't wait to see the results of the Investigation.
Coming right up?
Conference Call on Deepwater Horizon Response
Conservatism on the March
Chinese Medicine
DLA For Sunday 050910
IWA For Sunday 050910
Oh, and I'm not sure what the problem is here. So Palin endorsed Carly Fiorina, who is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-military and pro-strict border security and against amnesty," Palin wrote. "Carly is also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Like me, she is a member of the (National Rifle Association), has a 100 percent NRA rating, and she and her husband are gun owners,"over Chuck DeVore.
Anyone that can get Boxer out? I will be happy with.. OK folks, be right back.
Peter
Sources:
AP - Some Palin Facebook fans unhappy with endorsement
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The New York Times has reported that federal law limits BP's liability to $75
million, and Transocean's liability to $65 million.
These kinds of artificial liability limits distort the markets, and basically create
"moral hazard" by encouraging companies to act in riskier ways than they would
otherwise. If BP's well causes damage to property, then BP should be fully liable
for all of the damage. It is BP's reponsibility to "make whole" whoever gets
damaged.
If Congress hadn't limited BP's liability, it's likely that BP would have acted
differently. Knowing that a spill could cost them billions, BP might have demanded
additional safeguards for their well, or tested their safeguards more thoroughly.
These choices would have been expensive, but they might have prevented the huge
costs that the spill area is now facing.
BP has said that it will pay all "legitimate claims," even if they go past the
liability limit. The problem is that when it comes to property damage, a court
should decide what "legitimate claims" are, not the offending company!
Of course, now we're likely to see a flurry of reactive legislation, as members of
Congress try to pile on BP for political reasons. And, Congress will probably use
the spill as an excuse to increase its market interference and shovel more subsidies
into uneconomical "alternative energy."
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