Obama Seeks to Split Agency That Monitors Oil Drilling

[kristopher]

Source: NYTimes

Obama Seeks to Split Agency That Monitors Oil Drilling
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JOHN M. BRODER
Published: May 11, 2010

WASHINGTON — President Obama is proposing to split the agency that oversees offshore oil drilling into two parts, one to inspect oil rigs and enforce safety and the other to oversee leases for drilling and collect royalties, the White House said Tuesday.
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...Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who announced the change in an afternoon news conference, said that he intended to create a safety and environmental enforcement bureau separate from the minerals service leasing and revenue collection duties.

“The job of ensuring energy companies are following the law and protecting the safety of their workers and the environment is a big one, and should be independent from other missions of the agency,” Mr. Salazar said. “We will responsibly and thoughtfully move to establish independence and separation for this critical mission so that the American people know they have a strong and independent organization holding energy companies accountable and in compliance with the law of the land.”

Mr. Salazar said that he was asking the National Academy of Engineering to conduct an independent study of the causes of the Deepwater Horizon drilling accident and requesting...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/us/12interior.html

[mbperrin]

1. Might just consider not appointing people who trade sex and cocaine for

no oversight.

Just a thought.

[truthisfreedom]

2. You can be certain that the phrase National Academy of Engineering never ever appeared

in any announcement from the bush/cheney administration.

[Robb]

5. LOL no kidding. nt

[daleo]

3. This seems like a good step. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

4. Posted earlier today in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4376527

[Ian David]

6. Which side will be in charge of dildos and sex parties? n/t

[intheflow]

7. How about a moratorium on off-shore drilling

until we can see the extent of the environmental damage done by this disaster? Fuck this bureaucratic bullshit. Stop the drilling!! :grr:

[swilton]

8. How About Conserving Energy

And a moratorium on gas guzzling cars and those pesky appliances that waste energy and make Americans work less and get fat?

[Cha]

9. KR