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What they will do in the event of a major hurricane and it is dis concerting to me to say the least that hurricanes are not mentioneder their response plans. martha: your area has been hit so hard, and we saw pictures this morning, our reporter showing red soaked beaches, and now with the storm brewing that area or right by that area, they can't get out to do what they need to do, can they. >> it delayed efforts, bp was in the process of collenstructing third collection system, which would enhance the ability to capture the oil and it has been delayed by the rough seas but it will get complete...

See any moregraphically than that. that is the result, not on people's lives so much as the wildlife and that's florida, that's not even louisiana. >> yes, again, it's just a vivid demonstration of the fact that this is the greatest environmental catastrophe in our nation's history. it is as a result of the lack of preparation by bp. in fact in their spill response plan, they actually forgot to mention hurricanes or tropical storms. they have no preparation for that, at all in their response plans. although, they did mention their capacity to evacuate walruses from the gulf of mexico, which ha...

Those have been provided to our folks that are out there acquiring whatever it is, boom, dispersants or skimming material and they become part of the broader source of supply that we are pursuing in trying to resource our operation moving forward. finally, we have announced the publishing of an emergency rule it's going to loosen the requirements for equipment availability around the country. just to give you a general background as a condition of operation vessels and facilities have to have response plans on file and identify resources and a time limit in which they will be brought to bare i...

A number of major oil companies have the same response plans, a number of them have walruses in their plans for the gulf, can deal with a spill of 200,000 barrels, bp said 250,000 barrels. clearly, if they have xeroxed copies of the same spill plan and the bp spill plan wasn't working, clearly those spill plans don't seem to be adequate either. >> say we'll pause it until they fix the plan. i don't have a problem with that. i don't have a problem with any pause on specific actions they're taking with scientific-based changes. i have a problem with is an arbitrary six-month moratorium. they're ...

A number of major oil companies have the same response plans, a number of them have walruses in their plans for the gulf, can deal with 200,000 barrels. clearly, if they have xeroxed copies of the same spill plan and the bp spill plan wasn't working, clearly those spill plans don't seem to be adequate either. >> say we'll pause it until they fix the plan. i don't have a problem with that. i don't have a problem with any pause on specific actions they're taking with specific changes. i have a problem with is an arbitrary six-month moratorium. they're not even meeting until next month. what are ...