Trump Admin to reverse offshore oil safety rules to meant to prevent another Deepwater Horizon.

[Thebobo]

Another fuck anything obama proposal from the trump administration. I hope environmental and safety groups sue the shit out of them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/trump-offshore-drilling.html

"WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is poised to roll back offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history.

A proposal by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which was established after the spill and regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, calls for reversing the Obama-era regulations as part of President Trump’s efforts to ease restrictions on fossil fuel companies and generate more domestic energy production.

Doing so, the agency asserted, will reduce “unnecessary burdens” on the energy industry and save the industry $228 million over 10 years."

Have they no shame?

 

[HomerJS]

Thank you Trump/Pruitt

and the answer is NO!

 

[soulcougher73]

LOL 22.8 million/year is nothing to the energy industry. but im sure it will trickle down...right into ocean.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Remind me again how much the oil industry gets in subsidy from the American people?

 

[ch33zw1z]

No worries, the flat earthers say the extra oil will just spill over the side.

 

[brycejones]

If we don't do this the entire offshore oil industry will pick up stakes and go to China. China is eating our lunch people, do you want China to have all the oil to? Oil is bigly important for many many things like to make plastic for Trump water, to wrap Trump steaks in etc. If it isn't a legitimate oil spill nature has a way of just shutting that down. Workers who work on oil rigs know what they are getting into when they sign up.

 

[Ns1]

cool, gives me another chance to invest in BP

 

[UNCjigga]

Hey look, no one's paying attention today, let's gut these rules!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/climate/offshore-drilling-safety-deepwater-horizon.html

 

[thilanliyan]

Boohoo...safety is sooooo hard...apparently

 

[fskimospy]

BP’s costs ALONE on the Deepwater Horizon spill were $62 billion. A lot of that is compensation to those damaged by it but I’m sure there was plenty of damage unaccounted for or second/third order effects.

It would take 3,000 years for the costs of compliance here to equal even one DH disaster. How fucking stupid are these people.

 

[BoomerD]

BP’s costs ALONE on the Deepwater Horizon spill were $62 billion. A lot of that is compensation to those damaged by it but I’m sure there was plenty of damage unaccounted for or second/third order effects.

It would take 3,000 years for the costs of compliance here to equal even one DH disaster. How fucking stupid are these people.

If ya gotta ask.......

 

[trenchfoot]

Meh, it's just Trump sucking up to those folks who wouldn't give him the time of day even if they got subpoenaed over it. He wants their respect in exchange for (in their eyes) chump change that they didn't need anyway.

Poor poor Trump, always looking for ways to get a pat on the head and a nice slurpy blow on his orange tinted door knob.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Trump did something!
It is the end of the world!
Rinse.
Repeat.

I like the move so long as it helps us become less dependent on foreign energy sources.

 

[brycejones]

BP’s costs ALONE on the Deepwater Horizon spill were $62 billion. A lot of that is compensation to those damaged by it but I’m sure there was plenty of damage unaccounted for or second/third order effects.

It would take 3,000 years for the costs of compliance here to equal even one DH disaster. How fucking stupid are these people.

Dude we'll save like $.000001 per gallon of gas. Suck on that liberal cucks.

 

[brycejones]

BP’s costs ALONE on the Deepwater Horizon spill were $62 billion. A lot of that is compensation to those damaged by it but I’m sure there was plenty of damage unaccounted for or second/third order effects.

It would take 3,000 years for the costs of compliance here to equal even one DH disaster. How fucking stupid are these people.

If ya gotta ask.......

Trump did something!
It is the end of the world!
Rinse.
Repeat.

I like the move so long as it helps us become less dependent on foreign energy sources.

Here is your answer to how stupid these people are.

 

[senseamp]

Deepwater Horizon cost BP $60 Billion. Hopefully the rule of "don't lose tens of billions of shareholder money" still applies.

 

[SlowSpyder]

By the way.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...t-criticize-trump-environmental-policies.html

 

[Ajay]

Trump did something!
It is the end of the world!
Rinse.
Repeat.

I like the move so long as it helps us become less dependent on foreign energy sources.

$28M/yr? Are you daft? It’s just a high five to the oil companies and an FU to coastal communities. It won’t improve oil production at all unless it also reduces oil companies liability.

 

[hal2kilo]

LOL 22.8 million/year is nothing to the energy industry. but im sure it will trickle down...right into ocean.

That Alaska oil spill probably would not have happened if the oil tankers had been forced to use available GPS technology, but guess what? They once again fought it tooth and nail. Nothing ever changes. That why never give the bastards a break!

 

[soundforbjt]

By the way.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...t-criticize-trump-environmental-policies.html

Not because of Trump, but in spite of him. Many states have not relaxed their regulations in defiance of Trump. Opinion piece from Fox won't mention that.

 

[Jhhnn]

By the way.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...t-criticize-trump-environmental-policies.html

So what? That doesn't have anything to do with offshore drilling regulations.

 

[SlowSpyder]

So what? That doesn't have anything to do with offshore drilling regulations.

I, for one, am happy to see Trump getting rid of the overreach. Crazy times we live in, people have to go out of their way to pretend everything Trump does is evil while things are going great. Carry on.

 

[nisryus]

Not necessary evil, but just not well thought through and short sign.

 

[Jhhnn]

I, for one, am happy to see Trump getting rid of the overreach. Crazy times we live in, people have to go out of their way to pretend everything Trump does is evil while things are going great. Carry on.

So, uhh, the Deepwater Horizon disaster didn't justify additional regulations?

What planet are you from, anyway?

 

[SlowSpyder]

So, uhh, the Deepwater Horizon disaster didn't justify additional regulations?

What planet are you from, anyway?

No, I don't think it requires more regulation necessarily. You see, the people working on the oil rig don't want to die from problems like blowouts and fires, and humans have a capacity to learn based on what has happened in the past, it is called "wisdom". I'm sure even without regulation safer practices will be followed for the sake of not having another situation like that.