BP Oil Disaster

Myself like most people hate seeing the millions of gallons of oil gushing up from the seabed polluting the Gulf coast. I even hate reading about it. There is a lot of blame to go around, and it looks like BP should carry the most; how in the hell did they not have some kind of contingency plan? An explosion causing a disruption in the pumping would seem to be something you would plan for. It is amazing that they are only trying the 'top kill' initiative now, a month later. In all project management you always assess risk and devise a strategy to deal with it if the risk becomes an issue. And this disaster is a big fucking issue.

However Krauthammer has an interesting point: no one is blaming the environmentalists about this. The reason why this spill is so difficult to contain is that is it being in done in a mile-depth of water. The oil platforms are that far out is because of the enviro lobby pushed them out to deep waters; therefore if a catastrophe happens it is harder to lessen. Also, why not allow drilling in the Arctic Refuge which is ON LAND and has no tourism, fishing, or other industries that could be impacted. Of course they always get off scott free.