Louisiana deep oil drilling disaster

[Ed Jewett]

Jan, I think you are entirely right. Some of it apparently comes in from that old source of "trial balloons and other airborne garbage", Sorcha Faal. And it is getting moved along by the usual sources. As Yogi Berra once said, "You can see a lot by just watching." In addition, there is some postulation seen at Citizens for Legitimate Government about the aluminum deck for the helicopter landing zone. But BP took the risks not to exercise due diligence and spend additional money for safety while it engaged in what was arguably an extremely risky undertaking, and it hired a well-known company in the industry just weeks after it had been acquired by Halliburton. I do chuckle when I think of an old article I read a long time ago by Arie de Geus, then with Royal Dutch Shell, entitled "Planning as Learning" which was the genesis of the organizational learning movement. It got incorporated into my work in disaster response planning and simulations which now provides me with the hair-pulling acceptance that life in America is an ongoing disaster.