re: #73 austin_blue

Hey Reine! Hope you and the Roi are well.

And I am not surprised that BP isn’t running those ads in Louisiana and southern Mississippi. You guys, more than anyone, know who screwed the dog at Macando. And I agree with you that the new MMS should ask for updated response plans for all sites that have received permits and review new drilling requests *now*.

The question is, how long will it take for the oil companies to generate real response plans that could pass muster for a similar blowout in deep water?

Yeah, I started to add above that one reason they aren’t running the ads here is that “We’re really not as stupid as BP would like to think we are”, but I let it go!

1) Off La coast, there are no permits right now. Well, except BP has a permit. No one else does.
2) Companies have reviewed their response plans and I believe some revisions have been submitted (were awhile back, actually).
3) No plan will really pass muster. Each incident is a situation unto itself. It is impossible, IMO, to predict how any incident will occur or play out.
4) Within a week after the incident, all wells had been inspected by MMS; no major violations were found, a few minor ones were and were “fixed” within shorty order. Then the moratorium was issued.