Blame Game In Oil Leak Begins
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May 12, 2010, Wednesday
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THE blame-game is in full swing as United States Congress begins hearings yesterday on the massive oil spill that threatens sensitive marshes and marine life along the Gulf Coast.
Executives of the three companies involved in the drilling activities that unleashed the environmental crisis are trying to shift responsibility to each other in testimony to be given at separate hearings before two Senate committees, even as the cause of the rig explosion and spill has yet to be determined.
A top executive of BP, which leased the rig for drilling, focused on a critical safety device that "failed to operate."
Lamar McKay, chairman of BP America, pointed out the 450-ton blowout protector - as well as the rig itself - was owned by Swiss-based Transocean Ltd.
Executives of the three companies involved in the drilling activities that unleashed the environmental crisis are trying to shift responsibility to each other in testimony to be given at separate hearings before two Senate committees, even as the cause of the rig explosion and spill has yet to be determined.
A top executive of BP, which leased the rig for drilling, focused on a critical safety device that "failed to operate."
Lamar McKay, chairman of BP America, pointed out the 450-ton blowout protector - as well as the rig itself - was owned by Swiss-based Transocean Ltd.
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