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Thread #79354 Message #1444944
Posted By: Ebbie
27-Mar-05 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: What the Latest ANWR Vote Means
Subject: RE: BS: What the Latest ANWR Vote Means
Robomatic, none of what you write bores me- I don't question your agenda or your approach on your posts. Your integrity shines through. I am challenging only conclusions- as well as accepting challenges to mine.
"Part of our operating instructions were to report oil spills of any kind of any size, "1 drop minimum" robomatic
I understand. But "reporting" to whom? Just to your employers/superiors? According to the 2003 agreement that BP and Nabors signed, they were to report anything that exceeded 55 gallons. That report was to the Federal watchdogs, I believe.
I've tried to find online this particular report that appeared in the Juneau Empire this morning, headlined 'Regulators: North Slope Spills Not Reported' but have not succeeded.
"AP can assert that BP failed to report spills shows that there is oversight in place, otherwise, how would we know." robomatic
The investigation took place in response to Chuck Hamel's (an industry critic) charge that BP, et al, had unreported blowouots. The regulators decided there had been no 'blowouts' but there had been at least two incidents of unreported spillage, one of which, it was determined, consisted of up to 294 gallons.
This was reported by the Associated Press.