Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Safety Overseen By Tiny Pacific Island Nation…
From the L.A. Times
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico was built in South Korea. It was operated by a Swiss company under contract to a British oil firm. Primary responsibility for safety and other inspections rested not with the U.S. government but with the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a tiny, impoverished nation in the Pacific Ocean.
And the Marshall Islands, a maze of tiny atolls, many smaller than the ill-fated oil rig, outsourced many of its responsibilities to private companies.
Now, as the government tries to figure out what went wrong in the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history, this international patchwork of divided authority and sometimes conflicting priorities is emerging as a crucial underlying factor in the explosion of the rig.
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This Lady Is Mad… As In Angry.
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Fat Guy Dancing To The Ice Cream Truck Song… End Of Civilization.
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Friend Alf Finds A Human Fly And A Really Big Lizard…
Alf from Corkscrew-Balloon weathered the recent turmoil in Thailand and finds that things are getting back to normal…That is if you find hanging off the side of a building and something that looks like a Komodo Dragon walking across the parking lot normal… I miss Bangkok.