Pelosi Blocks Oil Spill Investigation

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Pelosi Blocks Oil Spill Investigation
by  Connie Hair

07/28/2010


The latest version of the CLEAR Act is slated for a floor vote in the House this week as Democrats look for ways to use the Gulf oil spill as a means to pass elements of their unpopular energy agenda.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stripped out authorization for an independent investigation into the Gulf disaster.

The Natural Resources Committee unanimously passed the amendment in committee markup July 14 offered by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) that would establish a bipartisan, independent, National Commission on Outer Continental Shelf Oil Spill Prevention.

Unlike the commission set up by President Obama -- packed only with environmental activists and no petroleum engineers -- the commission unanimously approved by the Natural Resources committee would be comprised of technical experts to study the actual events leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

 Not a single member of the committee voiced opposition at the bill’s markup.  The Senate has also approved an independent commission.

“To investigate what went wrong and keep it from happening again, the commission must include members who have expertise in petroleum engineering.  The President’s Commission has none,” Cassidy, the amendment’s author, told HUMAN EVENTS after the announcement.  â€œIt defies common sense that this amendment passed unanimously in committee, only to be deleted in the Speaker’s office.”

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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38284

http://republicans.resourcescommittee.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=200912




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Sorry Chris. Believe it or not, I was just coming back right this moment to chop this (after reading the Righthaven thread), but you beat me to it. Although humanevents is one of the good guys, usually.

[debk]

It was one day last week, on the internet, that I read from some investigation..."that when the US Coast Guard arrived on scene, they insisted that high pressure water hoses be used on the fire instead of the foam the oil platforms trained firefighters were using. The weight of the water pressure and containment on the platform caused it to topple, breaking off the upper part of the well, which caused it to break further below the surface."

Now whether or not this was true...I don't know. I will try to find the article again.

The article pointed out though, that if this was true....then it would be the actions of the US Coast Guard....acting on orders from the President...that over-ruled the oil platform workers who were trained for such emergencies.

This would make BP's oil disaster shared with the President of the United States.

That same president who coerced $20billion out of BP for reparations.

Wouldn't that be a bit of a sticky situation? If true.

Maybe that's why Pelosi isn't wanting an independent investigation....one that she, or the White House, can't control? We all know how she salivates at the opportunity to serve the president.

 

[Chris_]

It was posted in Breaking News: http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,47064.0.html

[debk]

It was posted in Breaking News: http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,47064.0.html

Thanks Chris!! I knew you would find it!! I didn't read it here though, I read it online.

I did just find another article...not the one I read though. I think it's the same one that was here. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/firefighters-sink-deepwater-horizon-rig/story?id=11264835&page=2

[JohnnyReb]

It was posted in Breaking News: http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,47064.0.html

I'm the one guilty of spreading that rumor.

I heard it in an interview on WBT 99.3 out of Charlotte N.C..

It was on the  (sp)????-the "Terra sir-vay-shus" show.

I've never seen or heard her name spelled so I spelled it like it sounds.