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re: WSJ - Regulators Accepted Gifts From Oil Industry, Report Says
Posted on 5/25/10 at 7:24 pm to splastiko
Posted on 5/25/10 at 7:24 pm to splastiko
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I was just sharing the information, someone sent me the link earlier this afternoon.
Yeah, I wasn't trying to call you out or anything. It was more a response to the cooks coming out of the woodwork with their responses. It is a good read, even if some things were sort of generalized and made it look worse than what it really is.
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Posted on 5/25/10 at 7:28 pm to Tbobby
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When you factor in transportation, I cannot think of a single thing.
I didn't ask them to factor in transportation because it would have made it impossible.
I'm glad you liked the question and that you actually thought about it. A lot of people still won't get our reliance on oil and gas and the drilling industry, and their by-products, even after considering that question.
Posted on 5/25/10 at 8:17 pm to CoonassatTEXAS
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i predict a shitload of MMS higher ups are about to get fired as they should.
A little too late for that prediction. This is old news and many of those people have already been fired and prosecuted.
Posted on 5/25/10 at 8:20 pm to homecat
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ind another lin eo fwork because we're going to be closing the doors shut on offshore drilling.
I'll ask you the same question that I asked another poster who wants drilling shut down.
Who/what is going to replace all of the federal income from oil royalties?
Posted on 5/25/10 at 8:35 pm to BROffshoreTigerFan
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MMS didn't cause this. Look other places for blame.
I never claimed the MMS caused this. I said they were scumbags who are pawns for the oil and gas industry and have been for a while. Show me anywhere where I even remotely blame the MMS for this accident.
Posted on 5/25/10 at 8:41 pm to tgrgrd00
The NRC seems like a pretty clean cut regulatory organization. It's not like it is an impossible feat to impose regulations to avoid accidents.
This post was edited on 5/25/10 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 5/25/10 at 8:52 pm to NukemVol
yall missed this one
LINK
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One inspector was flown on an oil company plane to the Peach Bowl college football game to watch LSU play the University of Miami. Later, the official emailed his colleagues that "The 40 to 3 arse whipping LSU put on Miami was a lot more impressive in person. My daughter and I had a blast."
LINK
Posted on 5/25/10 at 10:38 pm to NukemVol
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The NRC seems like a pretty clean cut regulatory organization. It's not like it is an impossible feat to impose regulations to avoid accidents.
Ummm.....Three Mile Island? Yucca Mountain?
Radioactive groundwater contamination in the north east?
Try Again.
Posted on 5/25/10 at 11:00 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
Damn that accident at Yucca Mountain. So many innocent lives were lost that day...
This post was edited on 5/25/10 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 5/26/10 at 8:45 am to Cosmo
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But no big news stories about politicians taking all kinds of shite from lobbyists.
Charlie Rangel
Tom Delay
Ted Stevens
And many, many others I'm leaving out. I don't think anyone is picking on the MMS and leaving politicians out.
Posted on 5/26/10 at 9:57 am to BROffshoreTigerFan
quote:My experience is similar. I seriously fail to believe that someone on the DW Horizon said "Hey, we've got some safety issues that are going to lead to a blow out of a couple of million barrels of oil... will you take these LSU tickets to look the other way?"
I've worked with dozens of MMS field reps, and they are nothing like what the media makes them out to be.
As I said before, until something comes out where MMS intentionally overlooked an area that was out of compliance on the Deepwater Horizon because of what that report stated, that and this disaster have nothing to do with each other.
Posted on 5/26/10 at 10:03 am to tgrgrd00
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I never claimed the MMS caused this. I said they were scumbags who are pawns for the oil and gas industry and have been for a while.
and how do you know this? TV? News Paper?
you are ignorant and dont know shite about this
Posted on 5/26/10 at 10:20 am to NukemVol
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Damn that accident at Yucca Mountain. So many innocent lives were lost that day...
If you do not consider building a spent fuel rod depository on top of a known geologic fault an accident..........
Well, one day you will.
Posted on 5/26/10 at 10:47 am to Sid in Lakeshore
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If you do not consider building a spent fuel rod depository on top of a known geologic fault an accident..........
Well, one day you will.
If I live to be 10,000 when the storage casks are expected to fail, so that waste seepage could even possibly be an issue which is still predicted as unlikely...I think I'll be more surprised that I lived 10,000 years. And as far as earthquakes, they've planned quite well for that.
Posted on 5/26/10 at 10:48 am to mylsuhat
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and how do you know this? TV? News Paper?
I have had previous interaction with the MMS and have formed my own opinion. I thought then that they were too cozy with the oil and gas companies as I still do to this day.
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you are ignorant and dont know shite about this
GFY. I believe what I believe and you calling me ignorant certainly isn't going to change my thinking.
Posted on 5/26/10 at 10:51 am to tgrgrd00
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I have had previous interaction with the MMS and have formed my own opinion
im guessing you got caught doing stuff wrong and you were repremanded for it but u think the it would be different if it were another company
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