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Their equipment at deep water horizon? >> well, bp does not have a lot of best friends in this area right now. but on the other hand, i dont think that anyone thinks that all of the executives of bp sat around a board table last year and said, i know what well do. well have a big explosion and a big disaster. so its not in their interests either to have such a terrible thing happen because its expensive for them. and, of course, its a dreadful thing for us on the coast. so like them or hate him,...

Genuinely surprised when the deep water horizon blew up that oh, my god the blowout preventer didnt work. that was supposed to be the last thing that stood between us and a disaster of the magnitude that did happen. so that was disturbing, even appalling. but you have to keep in mind anyone should keep in mind thats the thing that is supposed to stand between the kind of disaster that happened. a lot of other things should not have happened as well and all of it has to be fixed so that we can ha...

They are flawed in a way that -- such a way that the very accidents theyre supposed to stop from becoming disasters, those very same accidents can render them inoperable, can just take them out so they cant do their jobs. we knew that things could go wrong with blowout preventers. what we did not know is that if things didnt go wrong with them they still might not work. that by design some blowouts will just still happen, will just render the blowout preventers pointless. in other words, there i...

Particular should get extra scrutiny because of what happened on their watch with their equipment at deep water horizon? >> well, bp does not have a lot of best friends in this area right now. but on the other hand, i dont think that anyone thinks that all of the executives of bp sat around a board table last year and said, i know what well do. well have a big explosion and a big disaster. so its not in their interests either to have such a terrible thing happen because its expensive for them. a...

From the "new orleans times-picayune" "permit is an important step on drilling." "independent scientists detailed months ago how most drilling could safely resume." from the "biloxi" sun-herald," "america needs energy and workers need jobs." from the "mobile press register," "deepwater drilling is important to coast and nation." they noted that the government gave out the permit because "noble energy had proven it could drill safely in a post-bp spill environment." which would be awesome. if we ...

"independent scientists detailed months ago how most drilling could safely resume." from the "biloxi sun-herald," "america needs energy and workers need jobs." from the "mobile press register," "deepwater drilling is important to coast and nation." they noted that the government gave out the permit because "noble energy had proven it could drill safely in a post-bp spill environment." which would be awesome. if we all believed it. that said, a report given to the interior department last week re...

Particular should get extra scrutiny because of what happened on their watch with their equipment at deepwater horizon? >> well, bp does not have a lot of best friends in this area right now. but on the other hand, i dont think that anyone thinks that all of the executives of bp sat around a board table last year and said, i know what well do. well have a big explosion and a big disaster. so its not in their interests either to have such a terrible thing happen because its expensive for them. an...

And that is scary because it turns out that these blowout preventers are flawed. they are flawed in a way that -- such a way that the very accidents theyre supposed to stop from becoming disasters, those very same accidents can render them inoperable, can just take them out so they cant do their jobs. we knew that things could go wrong with blowout preventers. what we did not know is that if things didnt go wrong with them they still might not work. that by design some blowouts will just still h...

They are flawed in a way that -- such a way that the very accidents theyre supposed to stop from becoming disasters, those very same accidents can render them inoperable, can just take them out so they cant do their jobs. we knew that things could go wrong with blowout preventers. what we did not know is that if things didnt go wrong with them they still might not work. that by design some blowouts will just still happen, will just render the blowout preventers pointless. in other words, there i...

Really brags on the capacity of those preventers. >> i think a lot of people were genuinely surprised when the deep water horizon blew up that oh, my god the blowout preventer didnt work. that was supposed to be the last thing that stood between us and a disaster of the magnitude that did happen. so that was disturbing, even appalling. but you have to keep in mind anyone should keep in mind thats the best thing that is supposed to stand between the kind of disaster that happened. a lot of other ...