By Hank Miller Jr.
Just thought I would let you know I don\’t feel too sorry for BP. Also, there are pockets of oil still in the sand from the Valdez oil spill in the Gulf of Alaska, 21 years later. Fact Check denounced Rush\’s assertion that the area is now pristine, that’s untrue.
Portions of the article on Huffington Post website:
Acoustic switches are required by law for all offshore oil rigs off Brazil and in Norway\’s North Sea operations. BP uses the device voluntarily in Britain\’s North Sea and elsewhere in the world as do other big players like Holland\’s Shell and France\’s Total. In 2000, the Minerals Management Service while weighing a comprehensive rulemaking for drilling safety deemed the acoustic mechanism \”essential\” and proposed to mandate the mechanism on all gulf rigs.
Then, between January and March of 2001, incoming Vice President Dick Cheney conducted secret meetings with over 100 oil industry officials allowing them to draft a wish list of
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