N’Orleans Times-Picayune: The oil spill. Maybe the bladder effect lulled BP’s minions?
With the Gulf Oil catastrophe dropped far off the front pages, and in most papers all pages, I trooped over to the New Orleans Times-Picayune to see if it’s still following things. Yes indeed. An account by David Hammer seems to carry a certain weary air to it, but he covers a new report from the National Academy of Sciences on what went wrong.
While the explicit conclusions, he writes, offer ” little new information” and repeat “well-worn findings,” he does find it startlingly clear in its take on the assertion from BP and its partners that they live and breathe in a culture of safety. Rather, he reports, the panel concluded that daily operations prior to the spill were so undisciplined as to suggest “they never really recognized the risk they were facing.”
Hmmm. American were promised a new, higher degree of federal oversight and regulation of offshore oil work after this disaster. A few reporters, maybe in NOLA, ought to make a note to check back in five years to see how much things have changed.
A Few Other Stories:
- NYTimes (Dot Earth blog) Andrew C. Revkin: Academy Tallies Missteps by Gulf Drillers ;
- NYTimes – John M. Broder: Spill Report Faults BP and Contractors ;
- USA Today (blog) Jessica Durando: BP ignored warning signs on Gulf oil well;
- Washington Post (blog) Joel Achenbach: What BP should have done ;
Grist for the Mill: NAS report,
- Charlie Petit
