Obama Compares Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill to 9/11?

Transocean "Owned and Operated" the rig "Deepwater Horizon". British Petroleum "Leased" the oil rig Deepwater Horizon from Transoceanic. Halliburton was hired to supply the "Workers" on board the Deepwater Horizon.

This is for your edification: May 6 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Justice Department asked BP Plc, Halliburton Co. And Transocean Ltd. To preserve evidence from an April 20 oil-rig explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Halliburton employees completed cementing of the final production casing on the well about 20 hours before the explosion, the company said in an April 30 statement. Halliburton was responsible for sealing with cement the oil extracting drill a mile below the Gulf surface. Transocean, the largest offshore driller, said in the government filing yesterday it expects “to incur significant legal fees and costs in responding to these matters.

BP will meet its “obligations” to the U.S., will compensate affected fishermen and won’t “hide behind” a $75 million oil-spill liability cap, Robert Dudley, the company’s executive vice president for Americas and Asia, said in a speech in Boston today. Numerous estimates have been made for the amount of oil discharging ranging from 5,000–100,000 barrels (210,000–4,200,000 US gallons; 790,000–16,000,000 litres) of crude oil per day. The exact spill flow rate is uncertain and is part of an ongoing debate.

The Minerals Management Service, an arm of the Interior Department, oversees the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources. The agency collects and distributes more than $13 billion per year in revenues from federal leases for offshore and onshore drilling. It also enforces laws and regulations that apply to drilling operations.

This will be a very complicated situation to resolve due to the massive amount of lawsuits brought against all three companies for neglect, spillage, damages, cleanup, future wildlife deaths etc. I hope this helps you. Regards Warren.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.