Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Read: Regulators’ Deepwater Drilling Document Is ‘at War With Itself’

by Marion Wang from ProPublica
 A decade-old environmental assessment by offshore drilling regulators called for more research on Corexit dispersant, warned that deepwater spills were difficult to stop, and cautioned that such spills could "permanently cover water bottoms and wetlands."

At the same time, it cited industry speculation that a deepwater blowout could stop itself in a matter of days and concluded that deepwater spills were "a very low-probability event."
All government regulation cannot protect the public interest when the government is owned by the capitalist ruling class.