By Marian Wang and Sasha Chavki
Containment domes, top hats and top kills. By now BP and the government have tried to stop the growing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with a series of different techniques, each with an odder name than the next.
But where are all these ideas coming from, we’ve wondered. Did BP or the government have plan in place in the event of a blowout?
The answer, so far as we can see: No. None of the documents and plans we’ve been able to find have details on how to deal with a blowout.
Read entire blog here.
Tags: containment domes, Gulf Oil Crisis, PB, U.S. Coast Guard
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Propublica Blog: BP’s Spill Plans Had Few Ways to Stop a Blowout
By Marian Wang and Sasha Chavki
Containment domes, top hats and top kills. By now BP and the government have tried to stop the growing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with a series of different techniques, each with an odder name than the next.
But where are all these ideas coming from, we’ve wondered. Did BP or the government have plan in place in the event of a blowout?
The answer, so far as we can see: No. None of the documents and plans we’ve been able to find have details on how to deal with a blowout.
Read entire blog here.
Tags: containment domes, Gulf Oil Crisis, PB, U.S. Coast Guard
This entry was posted on Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 12:01 am and is filed under Journalism, News/Commentary/Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.