Department of Interior Set to Weaken Safety Regulations Implemented in the Wake of Deepwater Horizon Explosion
BALTIMORE, MD (January 30, 2018) – Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh led a group of Attorneys General in submitting comments to the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), opposing proposed weakening of the agency’s regulations governing safety systems for offshore oil and gas production. The purpose of the regulations, updated and implemented in 2016 after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, was to reduce the environmental and safety risks associated with offshore drilling.
“The Deepwater Horizon oil explosion caused substantial and lasting harm to the environment,” said Attorney General Frosh. “But the lives lost are the most tragic and permanent result of that incident. Rolling back safety protections less than two years after implementation is wrong and jeopardizes human and environmental safety.”
Read more in the full press release: http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2018/013018.pdf
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The major reason that this spill was not quickly stopped is that it was a single hole well design. Drilling 2 holes and joining them below ground provides a second wellhead to connect to so flow is stopped at the broken head for repairs and capping.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I'm sure the EPA went overboard on unreal other restrictions to choke the hell out of any offshore drilling, but, as usual, Brian Frosh's link won't show us the document we should read and comment on.
Just another political act to make him "look good".
Frosh is such a ditz, couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag.
ReplyDeleteAnything to oppose the current administration.
Lets clean out Annapolis and make Maryland great again.
Bunch of money grubbers.