by Dr. Mercola
'The U.S. regulators who were responsible for oversight of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico accepted meals, tickets to sporting events and gifts from at least one oil company. A new report offers further evidence that the Minerals Management Service has what has been described as a culture of lax oversight and cozy ties to industry.
You can click on The Star link below to see some of the devastating effects the oil spill has had on wildlife.
The problem was not confined to the MMS. In 2007, a British Petroleum refinery in Indiana was allowed to continue to dump mercury into Lake Michigan by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. A permit exempted a BP plant from a federal regulation limiting mercury discharges into the Great Lakes.”
“Another Accident Waiting to Happen?
Internal BP documents and employee interviews have revealed another disaster in the making on BP’s Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska. In an investigative report, employees told Truthout that hundreds of miles of rotting pipe are ready to break — an environmental mess they believe could be even worse than the Gulf oil spill.
Employees anonymously said that BP follows an “operate to failure” attitude, running equipment until it breaks rather than spending money on upkeep. Truthout even reports that senior BP managers get bonuses when they manage to not use funds designated for maintenance.'
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