Gulf Oil Spill: Ties to Cheney and Acoustic Switch Not Installed

[JohnWxy]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/05/14/gulf-oil-spill-ties-to-cheney-and-acoustic-switch-not-installed/


Ground work for Gulf disaster was established with a permissive tone with oil industry set in secret meetings in 2001. An acoustic switch to automatically shut down oil wells was reversed by Federal agency in 2003 may be a major factor in blowup.

(WASHINGTON, DC) – In secret meetings with the oil company officials in 2001, incoming Vice President Cheney set the foundation for a permissive, welcome mat with the oil industry. After stocking the Federal government’s Material Management Service with his cronies, this agency reversed an earlier 2000 decision requiring a mandatory accusatorial regulator, allowing BP and others not to install a $500,000 acoustic switch to automatically shut down oil gushers. For BP, this had to be a dumb business decision. BP’s $650 million dollar well may have been saved by a half million investment in an acoustic switch. For the country and those living and working in the Gulf region, the final tab may very well be in the billions.

Cheney’s Halliburton is connected to the April 20th explosion. The investigation of the cause of the blowup is not completed. As it turned out, Halliburton completed an operation to reinforce the drilling hole casing with concrete before the explosion. Halliburton is currently under investigation for a blowout in the Timor Sea caused by a faulty concrete casing.

The Material Management Service reported that 18 of 39 blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico were due to poor workmanship in injecting the cement around the well casing. Was Cheney’s Halliburton responsible for the April 20th blowout? Stay tuned. In the end, responsibility for the explosion and the extensive damages from it may well be decided by a jury.
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[CountAllVotes]

1. criminal Cheney belongs in jail!

deserves life in prison for these crimes against all living things!

:kick:

[JohnWxy]

3. Of course, don't tell M$M this. They would have us believe off-shore drilling was all Obama's idea!

[BrklynLiberal]

5. [phone] betweent his and Iraq..he should have to spend two lifetimes in jail

[midnight]

2. I guess this is reason enough to give Dick an A** Kicking.

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[JohnWxy]

6. Yeah, it's a piece of cake to take over an administration and an agency with thousands of people.

Before you fire top mgt at MMS you do have to find replacements, and of course there is rest the Dept of INterior to manage, too.

[nashville_brook]

7. might have started with a better pick than Salazar -- what did Obama expect? not a housecleaning.

[JohnWxy]

11. I hope nobody is expecting me to say Obama has done everything perfectly. That is not the case.

there is room for criticsm. But It's just amusing to me how the Corporate Lobbyist Party wants to find Obama being guilty of being a crypto Republican! Even the Republicans admit they're despicable when they seek to criticize a Democrat by saying they are practically a member of the GOP.

[mzmolly]

8. How would they correct it?

You think congress is fast do you?

[caledesi]

9. It's Obama's fault! I miss Bush and Cheney.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[JohnWxy]

10. Its Obama's fault fault for not finiding and correcting every crime of the GOP corporate whores

before they produce disasters! LOL. Last week the Corporate Lobbyist Partiers were saying Obama is a perfervid Bolshevik, bent on taking over every aspect of businesses activities. Now, he is guilty of being just as much of a corporate prostitute as they are!! THAT SURE IS CONVENIENT. Obama takes on whatever attributes the Corporate Lobbyist Partiers allege (and which the corporate media GOP echo chamber repeat faithfully).

The very worst thing they can accuse him of is being just as much of a corporate prostitute as they are!!!