Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Did it even occur to you that he might have been referencing a different award in a different year?
Are you telling me that Moe is illiterate or that he's retarded? Because Moe has already read and responded to my talk about the award.
Are you telling me that you got from his response that he was talking about Transocean's award they got last year? Cause all I got was the typical Moe "Don't really care that much" bit...
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A gander around the webbernetz has the most credible information being that BP was a finalist for a safety award having to do with outer-continental drilling in general; nothing specifically to do with the Deepwater Horizon rig (just as the award DWH's operating company received wasn't for DPH but for their whole "fleet").
Well, it had nothing to do with the rig, except that the category they were a finalist in was one specific to oil operations requiring rigs of exactly that type. How many of those sorts of rigs do you think that BP operates in US waters?
Similarly, Transocean's award was for their entire fleet, but the leadup during the ceremony included a music video made by the crew of the Deepwater Horizon. That was their "showpiece" rig Joph. It certainly held a central position with regard to that award (and the finalist position for BP this year).
You're going to an awful lot of effort to downplay this. I'm not placing whole blame on the Obama administration. This has been an ongoing problem with a component of the US bureaucracy. But you just seem desperate to insist that nobody and no action or decision made during the Obama administration can even be remotely held responsible. The award thing is just ironic, but I don't personally place any great weight on it. I just find your reaction amusing is all...
The larger issue with regard to this disaster is that the simplistic "farther is better" approach to offshore drilling, largely forced by environmentalist groups attempting to prevent significant impact from oil spills, seems to be pretty directly responsible for the incredible severity of this one. Oil rigs don't hold much oil at any one time, but the pipelines they use can carry a lot over time if they can't be closed. Had this spill occurred closer to shore, in say 1000 feet of water instead of 5000, the volume of oil spilled and the total impact of the spill would have been a tiny fraction of what we're dealing with now.
This should force us to reconsider that policy, but I'm sure that just as CRA requirements in the financial regulations has been ignored as a cause of the financial crisis, the lock step liberal position coming out of this will be to just ignore that aspect of the problem and focus on more regulation and restriction on drilling itself. Which will be yet another mistake...