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Environmentalist fear the kulluk it spill the fuel. >> conditions in the artic is much worse than conditions they encountered receiptly. there is no question that it confirms it is time to stop all drilling in the artic. >> conditions that we have now are the best conditions to get the drill ship salvaged. but the unpredictable the i of the weather. pressure is it on to get it don quickly as possible. with the high seas and wind there already makes it difficult already. to you. >> thank you very much. rick there are new signs that the recovery in the housing market that began last year was no ...

Agrounded drill ship on the rocky banks. on the islands that is just south and means seriously stuck and how to get it out of the water is a massive plan. it involved sea and air and land operations. the risk is more bad weather is coming in the area it could mean hostile conditions . today they flew in more crewing to fix the power on the rig. their lives are at risk in doing this. >> so many people involved in the resphonce operation. we have air and float assets and people staging . it is it maintaining that safety. we have having this situation for days and in challenging condition. >> sta...

Same blowout preventer used by deepwater horizon. same one that caused the worst oil spill in united states history. all that happy talk about how much safer everything is now, they are using the same equipment used in the bp disaster. happy talk or not. joining us now, former oil industry executive bob cavnar, that 30 year veteran that we consulted with today. currently coe of a company in the natural gas industry. before that, he was president and ceo of an oil and gas drilling exploration firm. he is author of the book disaster on the horizon. the story behind the deepwater horizon blowout....

After the bp oil disaster prompt a moratorium on more deepwater drilling in the u.s., the obama administration last month started handing out permits again. today was a new permit for shell oil off the coast of louisiana. last friday they approved state oil for drilling a new well in the gulf. a week before that, bhp billiton getting approved to drill in the gulf. they hired transocean to do the drilling on that well, yes, you remember transocean. this drill ship with an unpronounceable name as you see here had been doing the drilling prior to the moratorium, according to the latest available ...

Has the same preventers, cameron ones on top and bottom. only difference it has one more ram for a little more redundancy than the deepwater horizon. >> one change. other than that, pretty much the same. >> control system is the same, everything else is the same. >> do we know anything about this drill ship's safety record? >> it is interesting. this drill ship received mms, predecessor to bme, mre safety in 2005. we found it had emergency riser disconnects three times, once in 2002, once in 2004, and again in 2007. the 2002 and 2004 incidents were caused by weather. this is a dynamically posi...