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Enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both to get the mms to take notice. theyre just not checking these drawings at all. okay? and they should be. thats their, you know, requirement. >> bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators saying that your allegations are unfounded and that the platform had final documentation in place before it started operating. >> and my answer to that ...

Do you think they were rubber stamping what bp wanted them to? >> exactly, anderson. i think they were very negligent in their enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both to get the mms to take notice. theyre just not checking these drawings at all. okay? and they should be. thats their, you know, requirement. >> bp addressed your concerns in january in a letter to congressional investigators and they say that your al...

In fact, bp said mms gave them a safety award. what is your feeling about mms performance in all of this? do you think they were rubber stamping what bp wanted them to? >> exactly, anderson. they were negligent in the enforcement and regulation of bp on the atlantis project. you know, we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both to get the mms to take notice. theyre just not checking these drawings at all. okay? and they should be. thats their, you know, requirement. >> bp addressed yo...

Safety award. whats your feeling about mmss performance in all of this? do you think they were rubber stamping whatever bp want ed thm to? >> exactly, anderson. i think they were very negligent in their enforcement in regulation of bp on the atlantis project. we tried for a year and a half, my attorney and i both, to get the mms to take notice. theyre just not checking these drawings at all, okay? and they should be. thats their, you know, requirement. >> bp addressed your concerns in january in...

Me is that ive seen -- i tried for a year and a half to get this problem fixed. i knew from my experience as a project controls engineer that this was a deadly recipe for problems and for catastrophic errors. and it just didnt happen. the management tone there was lets take the shortcut. lets do the engineering as fast as we can and forget about the normal things you should do. >> this rig is still operating this whole time. mms was out, inspecting the rigs and they didnt manage to find any of t...

And over. and they better not object. >> senator nelson, it looks like you were at cape canaveral today. that looks like backdrop there. did the launch go well? >> it was a beautiful launch. but its bittersweet. because its down to the last few. >> thats right. already senator bill nelson joining us from cape canaveral there in florida. democratic congressman ed markey of massachusetts, chairman of the select committee on energy independence and global warming. i want to focus in on this miner...

And they better not object. >> all right. senator bill nelson. it looks like, im guessing you were at cape canaveral today. that looks like backdrop there. did the launch go well? >> it was a beautiful launch. beautiful launch, but its bittersweet because its down to the last few. >> thats right. all right. senator bill nelson joining us from cape canaveral there in florida. turning now, democratic congressman ed markey of massachusetts, chairman of the select committee on energy independence ...