*** BP drilled at an unstable
site over a huge methane gas pocket in very deep waters.
*** BP CEO Tony Hayward
dumped his BP stock 2 months before the spill.
*** Goldman Sachs dumped BP
stock and shorted Transocean stock the day before the
spill.
*** The drilling crew knew
the annular blowout preventer was damaged and BP didn't have it
repaired.
*** BP changed the drilling
fluid from the mud to seawater (seawater is 40% lighter than the
drilling mud). This is not logical and the rig superintendent said it was
suicidal.
*** Obama didn't take action
for at least three weeks after the spill.
***BP was allowed to spray
the highly toxic chemical, Corexit 9500, which is up to 10 times
more toxic than the oil itself.
*** Obama sent SWAT teams to
production platforms and drilling rigs.
*** Obama sent the Army and
National Guard for suppression of investigative reporting of the
spill.
*** 22 countries have offered
help in spill control and cleanup but Obama and BP declined their
offers.
*** BP and Obama have
declined to use non-toxic microbes as a clean-up
measure.
*** BP's Kazula invoked the
Fifth Amendment under congressional questioning of his orders to
switch drilling fluid.
Russia had 5 uncontrolled
blowouts. They drilled a relief well that intersects the wild well
and placed and detonated a nuclear device (which slid the formation
across the wild well bore, choking it off) and were
successful.
*** Obama refused Russian
help.