U.S. Oil Spill Commission Calls for Offshore Drilling Reform
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A White House panel on the BP Gulf oil spill disaster calls for drastic steps to expand offshore drilling regulations. Among other stipulations, the commission is calling for the creation of an independent drilling safety agency.
Blaming the massive BP oil spill on government and industry complacency, a White House panel on Tuesday calls for a dramatic overhaul of the way the U.S. regulates offshore drilling.
[Bob Graham, Co-Chairman, Oil Spill Commission]:
"A fundamental finding of our 6 months investigation is that the deep water horizon disaster did not have to happen. It was both foreseeable and preventable."
The White House oil spill commission, in its final report on the BP drilling disaster, says the U.S. government needs to expand its drilling regulations, as well as set up an independent drilling safety agency.
Commission co-chair Bill Reilly said it is time for Congress "to exercise serious oversight" of offshore drilling.
[Bill Reilly, Commission Co-Chairman]:
"We recommend as a first priority the resources allocated by the congress, to ensure that this agency is capable -- is a match for the people they are inspecting and regulating every day. They have not been. They have been overmatched. They have been under-resourced, under-financed, and under-trained."
The seven-member commission also pushed for the oil industry to create a self-regulating entity to help enforce standards and called on Congress to raise liability limits on offshore drilling operators.
The commission was created by President Barack Obama after an April 20 explosion ruptured BP's underwater Macondo well, unleashing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the summer.
The commission is the first government-sanctioned group to wrap up its probe of the causes of the BP accident.
A White House panel on the BP Gulf oil spill disaster calls for drastic steps to expand offshore drilling regulations. Among other stipulations, the commission is calling for the creation of an independent drilling safety agency.
Blaming the massive BP oil spill on government and industry complacency, a White House panel on Tuesday calls for a dramatic overhaul of the way the U.S. regulates offshore drilling.
[Bob Graham, Co-Chairman, Oil Spill Commission]:
"A fundamental finding of our 6 months investigation is that the deep water horizon disaster did not have to happen. It was both foreseeable and preventable."
The White House oil spill commission, in its final report on the BP drilling disaster, says the U.S. government needs to expand its drilling regulations, as well as set up an independent drilling safety agency.
Commission co-chair Bill Reilly said it is time for Congress "to exercise serious oversight" of offshore drilling.
[Bill Reilly, Commission Co-Chairman]:
"We recommend as a first priority the resources allocated by the congress, to ensure that this agency is capable -- is a match for the people they are inspecting and regulating every day. They have not been. They have been overmatched. They have been under-resourced, under-financed, and under-trained."
The seven-member commission also pushed for the oil industry to create a self-regulating entity to help enforce standards and called on Congress to raise liability limits on offshore drilling operators.
The commission was created by President Barack Obama after an April 20 explosion ruptured BP's underwater Macondo well, unleashing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the summer.
The commission is the first government-sanctioned group to wrap up its probe of the causes of the BP accident.