Doonesbury Say What?
May. 5th, 2010 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayne"From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented."
-- Texas governor Rick Perry, on possible cause of recent platform explosion and oil leak
Apparently one of the things making this oil spill all the worse was that a special valve (a 'sonic' valve?) that could have stopped the spill was not installed. Allegedly Cheney's energy task force changed the requirement that this valve must be installed in US coastal drilling platforms, because of cost: it's $500,000. That's chump change to the profits of these companies, especially compared to how much this cleanup is going to cost them.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/62899,business,dick-cheney-halliburton-implicated-in-bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill,2?print=print
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-440328
-- Texas governor Rick Perry, on possible cause of recent platform explosion and oil leak
Apparently one of the things making this oil spill all the worse was that a special valve (a 'sonic' valve?) that could have stopped the spill was not installed. Allegedly Cheney's energy task force changed the requirement that this valve must be installed in US coastal drilling platforms, because of cost: it's $500,000. That's chump change to the profits of these companies, especially compared to how much this cleanup is going to cost them.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/62899,business,dick-cheney-halliburton-implicated-in-bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill,2?print=print
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-440328
