When BP drills in Norwegian waters they are required by law to use an acoustic switch.

Vatic Note:   In researching I am coming across another reason this may all be happening.  It appears, besides the regular reasons of using the environment as a weapon, it may also be to confiscate valuable water front property from the poor working people who have lived there for generations and earn a living by fishing which is not going to make them rich, but this may well have been set up for exploitation and profit for the bankers and their elite customers.  This is what was done in Haiti and Katrina.  We will be researching this fully and will let you know  on a blog what we have discovered.  (Dick Eastman has done a great write up on this and it will be up tonight at 6 pm., further research will be later) 

When BP drills in Norwegian waters they are required by law to use an acoustic switch.
The REAL REASON Behind the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - 2010
In American waters they don't have to!!!!! Please watch video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77pBcf0o444



Deregulation is the real (underlying) reason / cause behind the US oil spill by British Petroleum (BP) in 2010 off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Deregulation coupled with lax government oversight (lackies appointed by Dick Cheney at the helm) lead to the omission of key safety features and protocols, a free pass for drilling
licenses, emphasis on profit over safety, and absolutely NO PLAN for containment of blowouts.

For example, George W Bush and Dick Cheney - THE MAN WHO IS REALLY TO BLAME FOR THIS MESS!!   - helped block a 2002/03 Bill that would have required the use of acoustic switches to activate the blowout preventer (BOP).

When the rig blew up, they had to MANUALLY activate the switch by sending robotic submersibles. This was all but impossible since the rig was in flames and the priority was putting it out and saving lives; this was easily foreseen. In addition, BP did not want to lose an oil well (by activating the BOP); this would have cost them future profit in addition to the costs for exploration and preparation of the well. Eventually the rig collapsed and sank to the ocean floor. Because the rig was STILL ATTACHED to the well head / BOP, it bent or damaged the BOP making it unusable.

Again, this is something that could have been foreseen; i.e. the need to activate the BOP immediately in the case of catastrophic rig failure, to avoid potential damage to the BOP. Profit wins over safety; BP must avoid activating the BOP at all costs. An acoustic switch would have allowed them to IMMEDIATELY stop the well head (activate the BOP) as soon as the explosion happened.

The BOP would not have been at risk for failure (due to rig collapsing); but, the lack of a remote switch and
need to save the well (for profit and avoidance of loss) meant that they delayed trying to activate it. By that time the damage to the BOP had been done. Lastly, all of the post-blowout efforts have been focused on SAVING the well; i.e. it was only after more than a month before BP attempted the TOPKILL method, which would have sealed the well. Attempts before that were about slowing the flow of oil or collecting it. Why did BP not try the TOPKILL method right away?Drill Baby, Drill! Spill Baby, Spill. Now, clean it the fock up!

BP And Halliburton Build Legal Teams, Attempt To Buy Off Government Officials (5 June 2010) http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/03/bp-halliburton-buy-off/

5 Facing possible jail time for their roles in the largest oil spill in American history, BP and Halliburton are building high-powered legal teams with "deep Department of Justice and White House ties." But the companies are pursuing other means to defend themselves as well. Halliburton's campaign donations have spiked as it tries to curry favor with key members of Congress investigating the disaster. The company donated $17,000 in May, making it "the busiest donation month for Halliburton's PAC since September 2008," Politico reports. Thirteen of the 14 contributions from May went to Republicans, while seven went to members of Congress who are "on committees with oversight of the oil spill and its aftermath":

(...) Since January of 2008, BP lobbyists have spent $30 million to influence legislation, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Some coastal governors have benefited from BP as well. BP and other oil companies gave Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) $1.8 million dollars for his campaign, and since the spill, he's been aggressively downplaying the disaster and encouraging people to visit his state's oily beaches. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) traveled to a BP-funded conference in Houston last month "to lobby aggressively to drill for oil and natural gas without delay." Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) dismissed potential BP negligence by calling the spill an "act of God" at a trade association funded by BP in May.

James Cameron says 'morons' charged with fixing Gulf oil spill

"Avatar" and "Titanic" director James Cameron on Wednesday evening criticized those responsible for stopping the geyser of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico and again offered the assistance of the private team of deep-sea experts with whom which he has worked on several underwater films and exploration efforts. "Over the last few weeks I've watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what's happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don't know what they're doing,"

Cameron said at the D: All Things Digital conference sponsored by The Wall Street Journal near Los Angeles.Cameron developed expertise in deep sea robotic vehicles and submersibles over a period of 22 years, he said. (...) Cameron said he has not been in touch with anyone from the White House, and that earlier proffers of assistance he had made to BP were rebuffed.

"They could not have been more gracious but they basically said, 'We've got this,'" he said. Cameron said one reason he hoped his offer of access to private film-equipped deep-water vehicles would be taken up was to more accurately convey what was happening under water. "The government really needs to have its own independent ability to go down there and image the site, survey the site and do its own investigation and monitor it," Cameron said. "Because if you're not monitoring it independently, you're asking the perpetrator to give you the video of the crime scene."

BP, We Demand Respirators for ALL Clean Up Workers (June 3, 2010)
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/52644/

Oil clean up workers are getting sick. BP is not providing high quality respirators for everyone. By using the conventions of journalism, the misuse of science, after-the-fact lawyering, appealing to macho vanity of some workers, and plain ol' bs to all workers, BP is getting away with this. But you might be able to do something about it. CLIP

Combating Exposure to Oil-spill Toxins

http://www.healthfreedomrights.com/

In AL, MS, LA, TX and Mexico, as soon as prevailing weather conditions changes the dew points, the prevailing winds full of Benzenes and other crude oil VOC's will occupy the air spaces, begin condensing, coastal and inland fogs will be relatively toxic....warnings are extreme benzene exposure to respiratory, skin absorption and direct diffusion into the bloodstream if contact with waters are made, containing pools of crude oil sludges. Please pass this information along, especially to those in sates surrounding the Gulf.... and as the underwater sludges creep up the eastern seaboard of the US...Cuba. Inhalation of benzene laden air is dangerous, as benzene vapors inhaled will flow directly into the bloodstream.An 'unknowing' deception will occur, while in these benzene vapors.1. The olfactory nerve is desensitized...meaning, it becomes more and more difficult to discern or detect the smell of the benzene vapors, the longer one is in it...to the point where the olfactory and the taste buds on the back of the tongue can no longer function....the deception is: If you can't detect it or small it, must be non existent! Wrong! Primary stages of Acute Benzene Shock are probable. 2. If you have friends, relatives, loved ones in these areas (even the ones you don't necessarily like) tell them to stay out of the water, the fogs, rains or mists from the Gulf Oceans. They are now all full of benzenes. From this point forward, fatal benzene exposure will result if the life form remains exposed, in whatever manner. Combating Exposure to Oil-spill Toxins - Slowing down and 'Reversing' benzene poisoning CLIP

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