60 Minutes – Oil Spill

Posted on: May 17th, 2010 by ecthompson md No Comments

60 Minutes interviews one of the survivors of the Deepwater Horizon - Mike Williams.


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Okay, so the guys on the rig knew that several parts of the blowout preventer were broken and it appears from Mike Williams' story that nobody did anything about it. How can this be a good thing?


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Oh, the stupidity was everywhere. BP, TransOcean and Halliburton will be grilled over this.

This is a great segment.

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Look at what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico. It does appear that we need divine intervention. For God's sake we're still driving archaic gasoline piston engine cars because of corporate oil dominance. We're poking holes in the planet, burning, cementing and poisoning everything, when you pray for the sins of the world these are the real sins, the slaughter of reverence for life- yours, ours and the planet. I think most people want to leave a small carbon footprint, but the system leaves us all no choice. We're not in Brazil driving sugar ethanol cars, none of the car companies are offering natural gas or affordable electric cars.

hubris coupled with testosterone equaled disaster in b.p. insistence that the drilling go faster. idiots have caused this disaster. their greed and disregard for life on the planet is the result that will be with us for years.

This is True. I worked inthe Gulf for 9 yrs. Stuff was often over looked

What happened to Andrea? Where is the outrage? This will effect the food chain and the U.S. just became a less desirable place to live.

There were only men in the list of those killed.

How come Mike Williams wasn't one of the first people to be interviewed by the Congressional committee that's investigating what happened?! All I've seen them do so far is talk to the CEO's asking them what happened. Do they really expect to get the straight poop from them? They are the ones that should be held accountable for what happened so you know they won't be of any help in the investigation. And the person who was shown the handfulls of the rubber seal that came out with the drilling mud and said not to worry about it should go to jail for killing all those who died in this incident.

"last year MMS awarded the rig an award for its safety history. " http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_bi_ge...

The company gave it the award about 2 days before the explosion. This fact is in the 60 minutes piece.Thanks.

MMS is not a company. It is a federal agency. The Obama administration gave DH the award last year according to the AP story that I provided the link for.

I know exact what MMS is. It is the same agency that was doing drugs and having sex instead of regulating.It takes some time to clean up government agencies. It ain't going to happen in a year. I agree with your sentiment - Obama needs to clean house.