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| Zitat: | | "I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest." - [BP CEO] Tony Hayward, interview with Sky News television, May 18, 2010 |
| Zitat: | | "Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it." - Sarah Palin, blaming the Gulf oil spill disaster on "extreme environmentalists," Facebook message, June 2, 2010 |
| Zitat: | | "What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP. I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. I've heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen." - Rand Paul, the conservative Tea Party candidate who won the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky, May 21, 2010 |
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"From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented." - Texas Gov. Rick Perry, May 3, 2010 |
Alle bisherigen Zitate aus:
Top 10 Dumbest Quotes About the Gulf Oil Spill
| Zitat: | | The oil giant's official plan for dealing with a potential Deepwater Horizon spill, and its more general plan for any spill in the Gulf, both wildly overestimated its preparedness and seriously lowballed the potential damage, according to an AP analysis. The plan — approved by the Interior Department in 2009 — lists a dead scientist among its wildlife experts and a defunct Japanese home-shopping website among its equipment suppliers. |
| Zitat: | | The blowout preventer is a giant valve that is supposed to be the last line of defense against a damaged well becoming an ecological catastrophe. But for the Deepwater Horizon project, BP chose a model — made by U.S.-based Cameron International — with well-documented design flaws. To make matters worse, according to a congressional investigation, the Deepwater's blowout preventer was in terrible shape: It had a dead battery, debilitating hydraulic-system leaks, and "shutoff shears" that weren't strong enough to seal the well. BP also opted not to install a voluntary $500,000 acoustic shutoff switch that could have sealed the well by remote control in the event the blowout preventer failed, reports the WSJ. |
| Zitat: | | Days before the blowout, BP decided to use a type of single-wall well casing that it knew increased the risk of gas leaks like the one that ultimately caused the deadly fire on the rig, according to The New York Times. Why? To save money. |
| Zitat: | | The company's string of failed attempts to seal or contain the leak — top hat, top kill, junk shot — may, in fact, be intensifying the problem. A flow-rate expert on the government panel looking into the leak rate, Dr. Ira Leifer of the University of California at Santa Barbara, says that both the top kill and containment cap strategies have damaged the well and dramatically increased the amount of oil spurting into the ocean. |
Die letzten vier Zitate aus:
BP's 8 dumbest mistakes
| Zitat: | In one case, BP engineers decided on April 16 to use just six so-called "centralizers" to stabilize the well before cementing it, instead of 21 as recommended by contractor Halliburton Corp. according to BP internal emails made public by the panel.
In their letter, the lawmakers say that BP's well team leader, John Guide, "raised objections to the use of the additional centralizers" in an April 16 email released by the panel. "It will take 10 hrs to install them...I do not like this," Mr. Guide wrote. |
BP Crew Focused on Costs: Congress
| Zitat: | | The executives, however, struggled to explain to an irate and insistent House of Representatives subcommittee why, as McClatchy Newspapers reported on June 2, their regional response plans for catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spills are nearly identical to the BP plan - a document that's now widely considered inadequate for containing a gush of oil that's now estimated at 35,000 to 60,000 barrels each day. |
BP rivals struggle to explain why their response plans look so similar
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Nachtrag zum vor vier-fünf Jahren verstorbenen Dr. Lutz, der als Meeresbiologieexperte in einigen (der teils deckungsgleichen) aktuellen Response-Plänen der Ölindustrie geführt wird. Interview mit Rex Tillerson von ExxonMobil:
| Zitat: | REP. MARKEY: In your response plan, Mr. Tillerson, as well as some of the other plans, including ConocoPhillips's, there is a Dr.Lutz who is referred to as an expert, a technical support person. Mr. Lutz died in 2005, four years before the plan was actually filed.
How, Mr. Tillerson, can you justify in your response plan having a person who has been dead for four years? Is that also an embarrassment?
MR. TILLERSON: Well, it is. But let me point out that Dr. Lutz was part of the University of Miami's Marine Mammal Research Division, which has been an important resource for preparation of these plans for years. The fact that Dr. Lutz died in 2005 does not mean his work and the importance of his work died with him. There are many other individuals identified in the plan --
REP. MARKEY: No, I appreciate --
MR. TILLERSON: -- (inaudible) -- more contact. And we admit that we need expertise.
REP. MARKEY: It's 2010.
MR. TILLERSON: Those numbers are all valid that are in the plan.
REP. MARKEY: It's 2010. It just seems to me that when you include Dr. Lutz's phone number in your plan for response, that you have not taken this responsibility seriously. |
http://mediamatters.org/iphone/research/201006160049
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Oh, fünf Jahre keine Alarmierungsübung gemacht? Das ist aber gar nicht gut.
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Interessant ist doch daß sich gewisse Unternehmen eine Freigabe für die Ölförderung in riskanter Umgebung wie die Tiefsee , anhand diesen aus selbiger Feder enstsprungenen Notfallplänen ergaukelten.
Und das mit Angaben , die den Anschein erwecken lassen , die Ölfirmen könnten größte Ölkatastrophen in den Griff bekommen , was sich ja nun als das Gegenteil erwiesen hat.
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| Zitat: | "It's beautiful and horrifying... It's public data, it belongs in the public domain."
"I want people to see the truth, the non-PR version."
" [...] incredible things, awful things that belong in the public domain and not on some server stored in a darkroom in Washington, DC. […]"
"I just couldn't let these things stay inside of the system and inside of my head." |
Bradass87 aka Bradley Manning (geb. 1987), Intelligence Analyst im Irak, über die mehr als 92.000 geheimen Militärdokumente u.a. zu Afghanistan, die er an Wikileaks übermittelt hat.
| Zitat: | | "We strongly condemn the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organisations, which puts the lives of the US and partner service members at risk and threatens our national security. Wikileaks made no effort to contact the US government about these documents, which may contain information that endanger the lives of Americans, our partners, and local populations who co-operate with us." |
White House
| Zitat: | | The recently Wiki-leaked military logs from the war in Afghanistan offer a level of transparency about civilian casualties that countless investigations, several military tactical directives, and hundreds of news reports have not. By not addressing these issues openly earlier and providing a minimum of accountability, ISAF has sabotaged its counterinsurgency strategy, potentially beyond repair. |
Erica Gaston, Human rights lawyer based in Kabul
| Zitat: | These files bring to light what's been a consistent trend by US and Nato forces: the concealment of civilian casualties. Despite numerous tactical directives ordering transparent investigations when civilians are killed, there have been incidents I've investigated in recent months where this is still not happening.
Accountability is not just something you do when you are caught. |
Rachel Reid, Human Rights Watch
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation
Despite WikiLeaks Revelations, Congress Votes for War Funding
The story behind the Afghan war-logs leak
Wurde das bisher eigentlich noch nicht im Forum angesprochen? Zumindest habe ich keinen Thread gefunden, obwohl das Thema ja durchaus ein paar interessante Aspekte hat...
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